In Satsang We Are Talking About Your Reality

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Very, very nice. I love this question. Very beautiful. So, the arising and the disappearing of the thought is not what ‘Open and Empty’ is about. So, in that way you're right. No thought can come and stay, you see. Every thought comes and it goes, it comes and it goes. So, just allow it to do that naturally, is to remain ‘Open’, you see. But how do we notice this? We notice this with our attention. We notice the thought arising with our attention and that it is gone also with our attention and the path between thoughts. We notice both of these with our attention. Now, you'll also notice if we look carefully that, besides attention, you also have something called the power of belief, with the thought arising it is saying, ‘Oh! I need to do more of this or I am not good enough for this or I am very good at this.’ Whatever the thought may say, you notice that you have the power. I am going to try and put it simply. You have the power to say ‘Yes’ to the thought and accept it as if it is true about your reality. As if it is true about you. But these thoughts, these representations, they make up a fictional identity called the Ego. They make up this identity called the Ego. So, if you say, oh! I don't like broccoli, I like this. All this is fine, I'm just taking examples. Okay? I am not forcing you to like broccoli, you can choose not to like broccoli. But, if somebody were to then define you, they would say, ‘Okay, he's a young boy, he likes this, he doesn't like broccoli, you know he's very friendly, he listens carefully to Satsang.’ All this defines, like identity, which is very small by the reality of you. In Satsang, we are talking about that, which is your Reality, much bigger, much more magnificent, much more vast than our mind can ever fathom. So, as we are ‘Open and Empty’, that vastness is apparent to us. That spaciousness is apparent to us. That reality of what we are, which doesn't get harmed or hurt by what may happen in the world, that becomes apparent to us. So, we see our invincible nature in simple instruction ‘Open and Empty’. But when we take on the truth value, the truthiness of what the thought is saying, it is just going to say, ‘Oh! you're just a little boy who doesn't like broccoli’ you know. But, you're much more than that. Isn't it? So, to recognize that you are much more than that is what we will come to Satsang for. Coming to Satsang must happen only when it feels completely natural to you. As I know, it happens in your case. But, I don't force children to come or anyone to come for that matter. Because, everybody has to go through their life journey and go through their own life. So, I am very happy that, at such a young age, you are interested in these questions and interested in Satsang. But, never feel like you are under pressure to find something. You know, you have to find the truth or something like that just taking time. You are here in Satsang. That is one of mama's big gifts to you. She has introduced you to Satsang at such a young age. But also, it's your own openness that brings you here. My own children don't like coming to Satsang at all, as you have seen when you were here. So, it's fine. I don't force them. So, just naturally go with the flow. You are doing very well and you know that you are in my Heart, always taken care of.