राम
Surrender & Grace

It Is Just What It Is

2019-10-17|56:52-59:18|Watch on YouTube

True peace comes from accepting reality exactly as it is, without trying to change or control what cannot be changed.

Simpler than just being is your Being. Simpler than just being is your Being. Anything more complex than that is the mind. Everything more complex than that is the mind. [Silence] No strategy, no tactics, nothing at all. [Silence] What is here simply is, it just is. Okay let’s try, let’s see. That which is here now, that which is here now; which thought can make it better? Think like an exceptional thought, like fantastic thought and see if it makes just what naturally is, better in any way. It just doesn’t, it cannot make any impact and yet the whole egoic attempt is that - to resist what is, to present something better. And we are so caught in this better; whole life is stuck in this better and worse. Should I be here? Should I go there? Which is better? Should I ask this question? Should I not ask? Is that better? Everything is stuck in this better and worse. In reality, there is no such thing as better or worse. It is just what it is. So this misery of these opposites of good and bad is the apple that Adam ate. [Smile] Misery of this duality. So would it be better to talk better? [Smile] All communication, even the sharing of Satsang, is in that paradigm. But at least it is trying to point you out of that. Because that would be better. [Laughs] But what is cannot get better or worse, it just is.

Key Teachings

  • What is, is already complete and needs no improvement or resistance
  • The present moment contains everything needed; there is nothing to attain or become
  • Surrendering to 'what is' dissolves the mind's struggle and reveals natural peace
acceptancepresent momentsurrendernon-resistanceallowance

From: The Master Really Is Not Outside You, the Master Is Your Own Divine Presence - 17 October 2019