How Am I Supposed To Be?
The question 'how am I supposed to be?' creates a non-existent self that limits freedom; true freedom is the absence of that mental shape.
I wouldn’t. I mean there would be nothing to say about it. It would just be, like, if there was no thought or idea about you or about form.
Yes, yes. So, like I call it pure perception. The Pure perception will still continue but it is empty of the limitations or the shapes or the moulds from the mind saying, “This is a man, he is my Master, he’s telling me something.’ All of that, be empty of that and that is a great lesson about life. Because life is just unfolding in the most beautiful way. Our conditions which are ‘How to’s, When to’s, Well done or badly done’, all of those conditions actually just get in the way, they just limit our natural existence, our organic Being. I hope now we can meet at this point where really we can see through at a layer which is deeper than the context of the question itself. Because we are now looking at the subtext itself which is about the ‘how to’ and feeling helpless if ‘I don’t know how to deal with a situation.’ And questioning the idea of ‘not knowing how to’ is worse than ‘knowing how to’. Maybe not knowing how to is better, we don’t even know that. (I hope all of you are with me, the new ones may be struggling a bit but I am happy to talk to you as well) This is important to say otherwise what will happen is that we will seem to resolve everything at a micro level, one problem at a time, but once we can start chopping it at the subtext. What is the proposition really? The proposition really is that, ‘I don’t know then how to be spiritual.’ For example, it’s not necessarily the condition you were buying into, but suppose the subtext is, ‘How can I be the right spiritual seeker?’ But, you are not going to be the spiritual seeker. So, the ‘how to’ manual is for the one that doesn’t exist. And the frustrations for the same one, or even the conclusions and resolutions are for the same one. So, who is even the protagonist in that dilemma or that conundrum? So, the absence of that shape is Freedom.
Key Teachings
- "How to" questions and conditions about how to be, when to act, or doing things well/badly create limitations that block our natural organic existence
- The one asking "how to be spiritual" doesn't actually exist - the questioner is an illusion; freedom is the absence of that mental shape or identity
- Pure perception is empty of the mind's labels, molds, and concepts about who and what things are
From: I'm Inviting You Home, Where We Are One - 14th August 2020