Make All the Choices and Come Back to Emptiness

If there seems like there are key and immediate decisions, then you cannot step back. Then, let those happen. Dive in, become the decision-maker, make all the choices, evaluate everything, do it, finish it off. But then, once it’s done, come back to your emptiness. Because otherwise what can happen is that, this struggle that ‘Why can’t I disengage when I have important decisions to make?’, all of that will just perpetuate. So, if it feels like there is something I can’t disengage with, I have to meet it in this way, then finish it, do it. But then after it is done with, then don’t pick up guilt, remorse, pride, don’t worry so much about the outcome. And as this openness increases more and more and more, then the temptation to become personal with anything will also reduce more and more and more. A good example is to look at it is this way: Right now, you are here in Satsang. That means there is no immediate decision that is to be made. So, in this Satsang you have the immediate opportunity to be empty and to discover your true Self. But the mind plays this trump card about ‘But what happens when I have these decisions to make?’ So, then, even now, we get caught up in that which is past and future. And in this way, it can just perpetuate. Now, we say that the struggle is ‘when these decisions come and I have to make these decisions’. Okay, so the rest of the time? [Looks around] If we are open, if we are effortless, if we are natural the rest of the time, then that is enough. The mind plays up on the idea of a problem. The Truth has never had any problem. The mind plays up on the idea that there is this problem, but the Truth has never had.