Don’t Mind The Mind

What is that knowing which doesn’t need any concept? What is that knowing which doesn’t need any perception? [Silence] Independent of whatever you think you know and independent of any experience that you have perceived there is a greater knowledge which is called ‘Self-knowledge’ or Atma- Gyan. And It is more direct than even what is called experience, that experience which is beyond even perception. And just yesterday we were reading that it is fully, fully available to everyone. First Satsang or millionth Satsang doesn’t matter. [Silence] The simplest discovery that you can make, that which is more obvious than most obvious; the Truth is that apparent. Beyond hidden in plain sight, it is just Is. Is-ness just Is. And in the coming to this discover as part of this Leela or play, just have to notice that your mind will attack you in all kinds of ways. It will attack your ideas about yourself. It will attack the voice which is speaking these words. It will attack, your Sangha. It will attack everything that it can use to try and distract you away from the simplicity of this. And you don’t have to try and change your mind. Just don’t mind. Because if you mind, then you are back to believing yourself to be something. [Silence] The Self-knowledge is… to come to Self-knowledge, is to come to freedom from the known, from what we think we know. If you want to make the Self an object of your knowing or even the subject of your knowing, it is going to seem illusive. If you return to the innocence of a child, if you come to the beginner mind that as the Zen masters called it…(it is) simple.