Every Shape Is Effort
All shapes we create are efforts; our true nature is shapeless and therefore effortless, requiring only the dissolution of the ego's constructions.
You cannot be shaken unless you give yourself a shape, and your shape is only in the mind. What is your shape without going to the mind? What shape are you now? Without buying into the mind’s interpretations, what is your shape? Shape or no shape? [Looks around] ‘No shape.’ So, how will you be shaken? tiow can you be lost? tiow can you be found? Till you give yourself a shape. So, the power of belief is the power of Consciousness to take on a presumed shape. That’s called identification. Don’t make any shape. What problem you have to solve now? Before giving yourself a shape. Not even the shape of space. Because some of you may be visualizing spaciousness or something and saying, ‘I am that.’ Not even that. More open than the highest openness that you can imagine, because that is also in your head. Somebody saying, ‘it’s impossible’? [Smiles] Actually, every shape is effort. Your mind may be saying to you ‘that it is too much effort to remain shapeless’, it may seem that way temporarily, provisionally.
Key Teachings
- Every form or shape we create requires effort, while formlessness is our natural state
- The ego is the shape-maker; dissolving it reveals the effortless being that already exists
- True freedom is found not in creating new shapes but in resting as the shapeless source