Enjoy the Sweetness of the Honey but Don’t Attach to It
True Awareness is the unchanging witness of all experiences, not a special state to attain—enjoy spiritual insights like honey but never cling to them.
I can see that sometime there is this tendency to take it as a reference, these experiences.
Good you come up and you expose that because that tendency can cause a lot of trouble. I have many who have come like this saying to me ‘Father, two years ago I had an experience of Awareness.’ It is absurd. As if you are not having it now? It’s not an experience, experience. But ‘I had an experience of awareness and it was completely unchanging. I want that.’ It’s so absurd, if it is unchanging where is it now? So, I’m very happy you spotted it and exposed it. So, don’t make any play of any quality, any perception, even if it is the most sublime perception, the most wonderful perception. Enjoy it, taste it, enjoy the sweetness of the honey but don’t attach to it. Don’t say that ‘This was Awareness.’ because Awareness can never be pointed to like this. [Silence] Sometimes you feel like you experience some dark empty space and the mind will come and tell you, ‘This is the awareness you were looking for. See, it’s so dark and empty.’ No, but what witnesses also that? Who is aware also of that? Is that dark? Is that light? We cannot say either.
Key Teachings
- Awareness is not a special experience that comes and goes—it is the unchanging witness present now, always, not something you 'had' two years ago
- Enjoy even the most sublime spiritual perceptions like honey—taste their sweetness but do not attach to them or claim them as 'the' experience
- The mind will label certain states (like dark empty space) as Awareness, but what witnesses that darkness? True Awareness is beyond light and dark, beyond all objectification
From: How to 'Know Thyself'... - 1st October 2019