श्रीरामSatsang with Ananta
Awareness & Attention

By Your Refusing to Leave Your True Home, You Cannot Trouble Yourself

Resistance cannot exist in the 'here' - remain fully open and empty now, for this is the only gift needed for any past, present, or future self.

Seeker

Okay, the next one says ‘Father, there is still much resistance and arrogance here, how can I be more open?’

Ananta

Okay, how do know it is there? Suppose everything that you think you know is not true. [Silence] Actually, I can guarantee you that this is not true. Because here and resistance cannot be together. If here is here then resistance cannot be. If resistance is here then here is not here. So ‘stay here’ which means what? Remain open and empty. Right now, in this moment this is the greatest gift you can give to any apparent future ‘you.’ This moment remain fully open and empty. There is no antidote to any make-believe mind problem. [Pause] So one thing you will notice and I am reading through the next question as I am saying this, one thing you will notice is that even ‘here’ in this opportunity to just have this pristine insight about yourself and just remain in that, just fully open and empty the mind is selling you the idea of a future ‘you’ and saying ‘How can I use what I am discovering now to help that future ‘me’? And it’s still pulling you back into this narrative and I am saying that ‘there is no such future ‘you’ but even if you were to say that there is, the best gift you can give to that one is you be fully open and empty for one moment here and now.’ Give yourself this gift and help every ‘you’ past, present, future, ten lifetimes before, ten lifetimes later, anything that you want to imagine, that is the best gift. There is no other antidote.

Key Teachings

  • When you are truly 'here' in the present moment, resistance cannot exist - they are mutually exclusive
  • The mind creates problems by pulling you into narrative about a future 'you,' but there is no antidote needed except to remain open and empty now
  • The greatest gift you can give to any past, present, or future 'you' is to be fully open and empty in this single moment
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From: By Your Refusing To Leave Your True Home, You Cannot Trouble Yourself - 13th January 2023