श्रीरामSatsang with Ananta
Awareness & Attention

Meet Your Self Right Now, As Your Reality. Everything Else Will Be Taken Care Of

Throw away your highest ideas—they cannot capture Heart insight; meet life directly without labels or mental constructs.

Ananta

Take the highest idea about your life, take the highest idea about your life, and just throw it in the garbage can. Don’t even make it sound poetic [Chuckles]. And I am not even going to say, ‘Burn it in the fire of Satsang.’ I have said this often but today I am just like, we are not even going to be poetic about it. It is not even worthy of fire. Just throw it in the garbage can. Your highest idea cannot meet one moment of Heart insight. Your highest idea cannot capture one moment of Heart insight. You can try and build all the ideas you want. Become the highest, learned spiritual practitioner who has read all of the scriptures and everything. Get all of the highest ideas and stuff them into your head. All of that does not count for one moment of true insight. [Pause] You are just troubling yourselves with those; just troubling yourself. It can feel a bit scary because it can feel like ‘ But I’ve invested so much in that. I’ve spent so many years learning this stuff.’ Now we say, ‘Throw it away.’ So, if you made a mistake, just to make yourself make that mistake not seem like a mistake, should we just keep committing to that mistake over and over? It’s just like the saying, ‘Good money chasing bad money.’ Stop doing that. You will not resolve your life. You cannot solve your life. Life is not the problem. It is not a pencil [that has to have a point]. It’s none of these things. Stop meeting life head first. When we stop meeting life head first, we meet life Heart first. [Pause] Whatever you think is happening to you or is your life’s condition right now, just forget about it, it’s not true. [Pause] Meet it fully. Instead of trying to hide from it by constructing an idea of what is happening to you. [Pause] It’s ironic that when I say, ‘Forget about it’ that may sound like a denial. I am saying the opposite. Don’t meet it through some preconceived glimpse of what you think is happening. Meet it! So, what is denial? Denial is to hide from it and say, ‘Yeah, yeah. I know what is happening. This is this.’ That is hiding. When you meet it fully, do you need to label it? I don’t need to label it. I don’t need to label this [Holds glass of water]. So often I keep saying, ‘This is glass. This is water.’ And yet I can drink from it. So, in the mind the idea of denial is upside down. I say, ‘Don’t label the glass and the water.’ And mind says, ‘He’s denying the glass and the water.’ No, I am saying meet it fully! But, why do you need the label? Is there a glass on the table? Of course not. The glass is just a construct I am using to insert it into my story. [Holds glass of water] I don’t need to call this glass. Every glass is unique. We just make these layers of abstraction so that we can insert them into our narrative. But, neither do I need to know the label or the label of what it contains. Just like a little baby can drink.

Key Teachings

  • Your highest ideas about life cannot capture one moment of true Heart insight—throw them away
  • Stop meeting life head first through ideas and labels; meet it Heart first with direct experience
  • Don't hide behind preconceived notions of what is happening—meet reality fully without needing to label or construct narratives
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From: Meet Your Self Right Now, As Your Reality. Everything Else Will Be Taken Care Of – 13th May 2022