Can I Stop Being?
Only what is undoubtedly true and apparent in this moment is Truth - memory cannot be validated and both belief and doubt arise from the mind.
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Okay, we've taken this example before, maybe the both of us have also spoken about. When your dream starts, does it seem like 'I've just landed up in the middle of nowhere'? So, if the dream starts and you're walking and somebody comes and asks you 'Where are you coming from?', you say 'I'm coming from home' – 'Where are you going?' - 'Oh, I'm going to that place'. You don't start to be with amnesia, usually, I mean. You could, but usually it's not your experience that this is like somebody asks your name and you say 'No, no, I don't know yet, my dream has just started, give me some Hme'. You're responding to the people who are showing up in your dream, saying 'Hey, I'm this one, this is where I'm coming from, this is where I want, this is where I was born'. In the same way, we can't really say anything about once the experience just starts. Like, right now, I could say 'What did you hear five minutes ago?' and you say „Oh, you were talking about 'Are you aware now' or 'Can you stop Being'“. But, can you really say that? You can't say it undoubtedly. Just like a dream could have started with you si^ng here, like we were just having this conversaHon, and you could wake up right now, and you could be telling your wife 'Yeah, I had this strange dream with Anantaji and he was talking about dreams, you know'. So, it could happen, isn't it. You could wake up just now and then you could be telling her 'Hey, wow, that was freaky', isn't it. So, now, is that a dream you are having or is it just a dream that you had? You can't say and we cannot say what memory is bringing to us. Does it stand up to any test of validity or truth? So, the Masters said, Papaji [Sri H.W.L. Poonja] said, past is a graveyard, forget about it. But even if you validate, how can we really say that this undoubtedly happened? You can't say. So, Truth is coming to that which is undoubtedly true. What is undoubtedly true? Is there a Truth which is beyond the instrument of doubHng? Try to doubt something. Where do you have to go? You have to go to your head. Try to believe in something, the opposite of doubt. Where do you have to go? Same place. So, leave that place of belief and doubt. Now, what is the Truth which is apparent to you? This is all that Satsang is actually. And I'll say it ten different Hmes for ten different things but for the moment this is all that Satsang is.
Key Teachings
- Memory cannot be trusted as valid - what we recall as 'past' could simply be a dream we're currently having
- Truth must be that which is undoubtedly true and apparent right now, beyond the instruments of belief and doubt
- Both belief and doubt originate from the mind/head - Satsang points to what is actually apparent, not mental constructs
From: This Is the One Lord, the One Reality, the One Absolute, the One Self - 10th June 2022