How Would You Know Your Self If You Found It

The Seeing is always there. Of what value is the firework? (Let me put it this way) Just a confirmaHon no? ‘Because these fireworks came therefore I feel my Seeing was true.’ I am telling you your Seeing is true.

But what does the star imply? Like you closed your eyes, you asked ‘Who am I?’ it was clear and then your head exploded but you were sHll around to see that your head exploding. So what does that imply?

So, exactly. So rather than worrying about these byproducts the main meal is there. You’re worrying about the sides, not worrying about the main course. What is the main course? [Silence] S1: You recognize yourself as something which you never were not… [Inaudible]

No. I’m not accep#ng it [Laughing]

Don’t write a manual for awakening, just awaken! [Chuckles] S1: I’m awakened… [Laughter in the room] Don’t want to be stuck…

Ahhh…[Nodding his head in a no] [Laughter] S1: Just ignore my words please! [Laughter] [Pause]

Who are you without the mind? [Silence] [Reading from the chat] One says ‘Awareness.’ Awareness is a beauHful pointer to It, but every word, every concept, defines something but you are the undefinable. [Silence] So to communicate we can use these terms but really your discovery is that you are without any reference. And any conclusion that you make, I’m not squabbling with her [poinHng to a Sangha member] I mean it is fun (I was going to say ‘not just for the fun of it’ but it is fun) but the point is that, this is how you will trouble yourself. You see and it will come in a very meek and helpful way of Self- definiHon but the same helpfulness will actually become your new prison. ‘Ahh this is how it is, I’ve always been this’, even a glorious statement like that will just become a prison for you. Where is Hme? For the One that is beyond this mind, which the mind cannot refer to, what is Hme? So where is the quesHon of ‘always’ or ‘not always’? [Silence] It doesn’t actually exist. So even a mighty statement, almost scriptural, can be a reference back into this noHonal idenHficaHon. [Pause] So then like you were saying, that the words start to become more and more limited. You say, ‘It just Is.’ Or just ‘Is… Is-ness’ So Grace has brought you to this point where you are even willing to engage with a poinHng like this, ‘Who are you without your mind?’ or “What do you find without your mind?”