In Between Two Thoughts What Are You?

This is a good starHng point to start Satsang as it clarifies o us the usefulness of Spiritual poinHngs. Now like everything phenomenal there are pros and cons to everything. It is the same for spiritual poinHngs as well. The use of spiritual poinHngs especially in Satsang like this, is as an anHdote to any other condiHoning. As an anHdote to any other thought construct, anything posing conceptually as Reality then a Spiritual poinHng comes and cleans that up. So I’ve been joking around with this one- What are you not thinking right now? To get you to look away into that which is broader than the conceptual version or conceptual representaHons of what Is, and look beyond that into the Wordless, Unspeakable, IntuiHve Reality. So it is not that we go from one concept and then hang on to another concept, iniHally it may happen provisionally that we need that, but for most of you who’ve been with me for some Hme, now what happens is that the metaphor of the thorn being used to remove other thorns and then being thrown away is a very very useful metaphor in this case. So this is what it is used for. The mind will aZack you, it will say all kinds of things and a poinHng like, Guru Kripa Kevalam- Masters Grace is all there is, serves as an anHdote and brings us back into a neutrality rather than becoming a new crutch to hold onto. You see? So that which helps us to return to the Open and Empty, including the pointer Open and Empty itself, is useful for Satsang of this kind because it is introducing you to something which is far beyond your mind. When you don’t rely on conceptual knowledge you are introduced to your higher aspects of your Being where IntuiHve knowledge is funcHoning so naturally and that way it can work. Another ‘benefit’, you don’t take yourself to be something you see? Except when you’re relaHng to yourself with the versions of what the mind is telling you. When you return to the innocence of ‘the space between two thoughts’, of ‘the open and empty’, what are you? [Silence] In between two thoughts what are you? [Looks at the Sangha-Haan?] Not even a thing, isn’t it? To even claim to be ‘nothing’ we need a thought. So we’ve lee the conceptual realm in between any two thought [Silence] But you sHll are. But what, you cannot say. You cannot say here [Points to the head] but here [points to the heart] you are not lost. That is why Satsang is the movement from head to heart. Not a physical heart, definitely not an emoHonal heart. Mostly when people say, ‘I’m all heart, I’m all heart…’ mostly they say they just follow their emoHons whatever way their emoHons are driving them. But that is not the heart I’m speaking of. I’m speaking of your higher knowing, the core of your Being-ness itself. You see? Which is the Source of all Intelligence and everything in the waking state gets its light from that Light. So coming to Satsang is the le^ng go of the false and in the le^ng go of the false there is an automaHc remaining in the Heart. You cannot go to the Heart, you can only let go of the false. [Silence] Isn’t that so simple. [Chuckling] Now Here, Here, are You something that any percepHon can contain? We are taking a bit of a leap okay and if there is anything then just stop me and say ‘what are you saying?’ [Chuckling] Now from Here when you don’t make any concept to make reference to Yourself, Here, are you something contained in percepHon? Or are you even beyond percepHon? Do either of these apply?