‘How Do You Know?’ Is a Very Potent Question

Yes. Thank you for this. Let's start with this, I feel like it's good enough to start with this. You said, I don't know what to do next, or, I don't know what to do anymore aeer listening to you. Now, do you know this?

Is it a feeling? I'm gonna use this and thank you for starting like this because this is classic mind diversionary tactic. It will say, It's not me, it's a feeling. Does a feeling say 'I don't know'? Or does a feeling say 'I do know'? Is feeling a source of knowledge in that way?

Yes. Right now, when you look 'within', is the absence of direction leading to a feeling of being lost, or the idea of being lost?

Okay, let's go a bit slower. Empty of this conceptual direction about what we should to do or not do, the mind will propose that this is an unintelligent state, and therefore then we need to find some balance between using the mind and not using the mind. That's the proposal that will come from the mind. It will say, but without me, you can't run this life, you need it for 'practical' reasons. Or it will say that Yes, yes, all of this is fine for spirituality or the discovery of the Truth, but you can't run your life like this. And I want to ask you then, that if the sharing of Satsang can happen from this Heart knowledge, then why can't the rest of your life be also run from that? And all that we see around us, the whole functioning of this universe, it can be run with this intelligence of the Heart. Then why is it that running our life is a problem?

Let's pause here, because how come the mind is not needed for the sharing of Satsang, but it is needed for tour guiding?

We cannot say, you're wearing a nice shirt today? For that I need to use the mind, is that the idea? The shirt is not permanent, it is not about what is, it is in the realm of perception. So intuition is incapable of guidance or of moving in this realm of perception, is that the notion? And yet, when we find, like, let's say the best sportsman, the best scientist, all of them say that, I don't know what happened, for a few minutes I was empty of mind, I was in the zone, and that's where I perform at my highest. Many have reported that. I don't want to say this oeen, because then we'll look at that as some sort of a cheat code to life, or try to get some special powers or something like that. But that's not the idea. So, if all these ones who are operating in what we call wordly stuff also report that when they're empty of mind stuff, in the no-mind, then that is when the highest discoveries come to them, or the highest movement happens through them. That tour guiding or the sharing of Satsang or playing football or becoming a school teacher, for all of that we need to refer to ourselves as this limited object and from that reference point only can all of that happen, isn't that itself a mind attack or a mind diversion?

Tell me what your Heart is saying.

[Laughing, snaps fingers] Look at that, instantly you know. Suddenly you went from sounding like somebody to sounding like Ashtavakra.

No, now tell me again what your Heart is saying.

What is the difficulty in living like this?

You may still get paid or not, I don't know. I don't know about that. In fact, there is no way that you can predict. You may become the best tour guide or the worst, being in the Heart. That much risk we have to take. [Silence] tiow do you know? is a very potent question to use. If we just conclude on the basis of some mental construct, then it's just leading you down the garden path. [Silence] And I've given you the master key to being intuitive. How can you ensure that you're being intuitive? When who you are is apparent to you, you're being intuitive and not mental. When who you are is apparent to you, you're being intuitive. All of life is already functioning from here. Like you said, the ripples on the surface can seem to make these signals that they are running themselves. But it's not true. Don't come to any resolution with your mind about this, or wait for some conclusion from the mind, some certificate. Another trick the mind will play is, 'But then, there is nothing lee to talk about. Then what can I say?'. This is just not true. If the trees can grow, and the birds can flap, and the fish can swim without the mind, then this body can also speak if that is the way of the Heart.