Let Go of Your Narrative
Release the stories your mind tells about you; in letting go of narrative, you discover the timeless awareness that is always already present.
If you take yourself to be… if we take ourselves to be human; then we must drop the arrogance of humanity saying that ‘I can understand God.’ If we recognize that we are not separate from God, there is one Being, one God; then there is nothing to understand. It is as simple as that. If you take yourself to be human don't think that you can understand God. God is too big for you and that is surrender. But if you recognize that you are Being itself, what is lee to understand? In your Being right now, what lack is there that we need to understand? What story is there that needs resolution? [Silence] And if you are liking the human representation then I will tell you how not to suffer taking yourself to be a human - Don't try to understand life, god, Truth, love; all of these things are too broad for a human to understand. I am saying this to all of you. But if you want to put on the mask of humanity on top of your Godliness, your divinity, and then say ‘Here with this mask on I want to meet God’ then that is not possible. But that is what every spiritual seeker wants. Seeker is what? The ‘me’ wanting something, wanting the meeting with God [and] refusing to put down the mask and that's why it seems so round and round… Because you're pointed to something, you have an insight about it. Insight is simple, insight is simple. The pointers are potent enough that you will have an insight about it but then the mass comes back on again because you want to own it and make something out of it, use it as part of your narrative. You want your narrative to change to Freedom and enlightenment. That cannot happen, God is not so Hny that you will include him in your story. And he says ‘Yes, yes I am here, what, what, what you want to do?’ So either you let go of your narrative or let go of God. Both you cannot juggle with, you will suffer more.
Key Teachings
- The personal narrative/stories we tell ourselves are not the truth of who we are but constructs of the mind that obscure direct awareness
- Letting go of the mental storyline allows us to rest in the immediacy of present-moment awareness
- The self we believe ourselves to be is often just a story—true freedom is found in releasing this conceptual identity
From: Nobody Is Confused Unless They Start Using the Head - 15th January 2020