Discovery of Your Self
True Self is that which is aware of your Being but cannot itself be perceived or grasped by the mind.
What I am simply asking is ‘What is it that does not need any percepHon for you to confirm that it Is?’
My Being.
Yes.
That’s good, it’s good. So that which is Aware of that Being, that which is Aware of that Being is ‘you’ no? When you say Being, it is the sense of Existence, the sense of Presence. So this that is Aware of this even Presence is ‘you’ no?
Yes.
Yes, but do you see this ‘you’?
No.
That’s all I am saying, it’s independent of percepHon, the discovery of you, your Self. Is it dependent on percepHon?
No.
That’s it. [Smiles]
I am going to put my mind at your feet to deconstruct all the thinking that comes with it, so please look aeer it.
Share that because that is the tendency that we coming to the insight but then to try and squeeze the insight into our heads is what gets us in trouble. So I am glad you leave the mind here because the mind cannot help you with it. But it will have enough to say about it.
Yes, I think it needs to stay with you for a while.
I am happy to keep it with me. [Smiles]
Thank you. Because there have been lots of exposure today of different emoHons. I would like to leave my anger when [my child] gets angry. I don’t know, please bless her not to get angry. So I leave all the anger with you, mine and hers.
Thank you, thank you, my dear.
Key Teachings
- The question 'What is it that does not need any perception for you to confirm that it Is?' points to Being, which is self-evident
- That which is Aware of Being is the true 'you' - awareness itself - but this 'you' cannot be seen or perceived
- The mind cannot help with this discovery; trying to squeeze the insight into the head is what gets seekers in trouble
From: Letting Go of the Mind and Relying on That Intuitive Intelligence - 5th March 2021