Learn How To Not Rely On Conceptual Knowledge

Okay, this is a good place to start. And this continues in a way the theme of last time also where really, I want to emphasize again and again there is no ‘How to?’ And there is no template as to ‘How to.’ All we can do is moment to moment follow our intuition, follow our intuitive guidance. But, there is no real template which we can say ‘Okay, now because you are really seeking the ultimate Reality, this is what you should be like.’ Because the problem with that instruction would be what? The problem with that instruction would be that it is still emphasizing the false identity to be your Reality and then re-emphasizing that every time, while seeming to motivate or to push us into the greater Reality. So, if I was to say, “This is what you must do now that you are a spiritual seeker”, then that will still contain the protagonist of you as a ‘somebody’ as an individual, who now has a ‘way’ to behave or to live now as a spiritual seeker. And every time you reinforce that saying, “That this is what I am meant to do now”, it can reinforce the identity. And that is why even when you speak to Masters the instructions can seem very contradictory, because like Guruji [Sri Mooji] very beautifully said one time, he is not answering the question really, he is just answering the questioner. What that means is that, what condition that may be apparent at that point, that position has to be discarded one way or the other and that is what the Masters do. And so if the Masters notice that maybe you have a particular condition which is like ‘this’ they will try to pluck that out by saying something that the condition is opposite… they may try to pluck that out by saying the opposite of what they would have said otherwise. And that is why this is a common complaint amongst most spiritual seekers saying that ‘Why can’t my Master just tell me and then just not contradict that ever in terms of what I am supposed to do?’ But it just can’t happen that way because the mind can so easily take positions either way - the words that I use to disinfect you from those positions also can then be either way. What then happens is we come to a point where we don’t need to communicate in that way. Because you are mostly able to see through most of the positions and the shapes that the mind is trying to create. So, even in hearing this there is a subtle shape. (Something went in my eye, sorry - so, depending on where that speck of dust is, that is where you are to blow into and blow it out) So, it cannot be a standard cookie-cutter sort of response. I completely understand the frustration that comes along with hearing something like that because it just feels like, “But then I am lost, I go to a teacher so that he can guide me in terms of what to do. But the teacher sometimes says, XX, sometimes YY and sometimes he says up, up and sometimes he says down, down.” So, it can seem very confusing and I don’t really have a way. But, that’s how it is because the teacher does not want you to get addicted to a newer set of lies which are spiritual concepts. It is not like the principle of moving up, is not what is being applied here (so we spoke about this) where you are willing to let go of an existing concept if you are given a better sounding concept and especially if the benefits sound great. But this kind of Satsang is more difficult because here nothing is an offer, ‘So what can I really do, will I find the Truth?’ and even when the conclusive answers are there, soon they will neutralize each other and that seems to be a disadvantage or a frustration. But actually it is a great help because we learn how to not rely on conceptual knowledge and we allow this life, which is central to our very Being as Consciousness, to unfold itself in the most organic way. And you are doing it very well but sometimes the mind presents conundrums to us and puzzles to us saying, ‘On one hand…on the other hand... so, what does it all actually mean?’ Just forget about it.