Falling For Mental Temptation Is Falling For Slavery
Mental temptation enslaves you through stories, but you are only the unlimited Being within which all perceptions are witnessed—there is no 'me' to find.
Get out.
Get out [Laughter] So whatever representaHon you have that can get lost. Nobody cares; it has no value, especially to you. All this false, gibberish. We are done with it. You say ‘But, but, but..’ none of that. [You say] ‘But it's true…’ it's not! I am really feeling this. Are you? Feeling arises and subsides, what is your relaHonship with it? The world arises and subsides, what is your relaHonship with it? Thoughts arise and subside, what is your relaHonship with it? The power to idenHfy is to make these false relaHonships. But you have come for the Truth to Satsang, the company of the Truth Sat-sang. How much falseness should we nurture in Satsang? Satsang has to be fiey one percent Sat (truth) and forty nine percent jhooth (lies), as long as the proporHon is higher we are okay, is it like that? Or can we be relentless now, at this point to chop away all that is false? Can the false serve the Truth; that we must nurture it? Which one of your stories are you not done with yet? If you're not done with it you haven't suffered from it yet enough or maybe you have suffered a lot from it but you've invested so much into it that you feel like you want to succeed, you want to win and get out of it, you don't want to leave it like this. There is no need to hold on to the false. You say - I want the Truth. The Truth is being made apparent. So you have no excuse now. The Truth is being made apparent. Your mind will keep saying ‘But, but, no, no, it is not clear’ all that nonsense but even you can smell the lie around. You can smell it, it is not true. The Truth is apparent to you every Hme you check it is clear to you and all of you are preZy open and empty now, whether you believe it about yourself or not. But don't fall for this mental temptaHon. You realize that falling for temptaHon is just falling for slavery. Mental oppression, if slavery is too strong the word you can call it oppression. It tempts you with a story and then the story oppresses you. At least it seems to oppress the protagonist of the story. You in Reality are never oppressed. Where is the ‘me’ right now [Clicking of figures]? The one you are going to present in two minutes from now, where is that [Clicking of figures] right now? [Clicking of figures] Where is that right now? Where is the ‘me’ whose story you are going to share or you are going to believe, where is that? It is just a pure witnessing of your Being within which all these percepHons are shining. That’s all that's going on. Pure witnessing of your Being, unlimited Being in which just pure percepHon of these beauHful sensaHons are being witnessed, that is all. Where is the ‘me’? Where is the ‘me’? Where is the one with the story? Can anyone find such one? You say ‘I feel a constricHon… something, something’ but you witness it no or are you it? Anything that arises or disappears does not touch that which witnesses it. So if there is no ‘me’ that you find, then what are we talking about? What are you talking about?
Key Teachings
- The false has no value—be relentless in chopping away all that is false, as the Truth is already apparent
- Falling for mental temptation is falling into slavery—the mind tempts with a story, then the story oppresses you
- You are the pure witnessing of Being; what witnesses cannot be what is witnessed—arising/disappearing phenomena do not touch the witness
From: If You Don't Interpret... Don't Judge, What Is Your Discovery Right Now? - 18th September 2020