Nobody Can Start Closed, Everybody Starts Open Right Now!

Already the expectation is resistance. What is an expectation? So we have a box and that box, in the boundaries of the box [Gesture of hands making a box in the air] is the notion that in the realm of perception only peace can come. So it is the design of Consciousness that everything in this realm constantly changes and when it goes, and it will go, what we call peace, so far, that will go, then when it is replaced by something else then we feel like ‘Oh, this should not happen, therefore I am not free.’ Now, look at the absurdity of that. Freedom means what? Everything can come, freedom. [Chuckling] We feel that [Gesture of hands making a box in the air] freedom means this box, that only peace can come. Now, does that sound like freedom? This is the absurdity of the human intellect. So it takes a concept which itself clearly means not freedom and says ‘that should be my freedom’ and then we keep chasing that. This is the strangeness of the human intellect. So…allowing everything to come and go, as it will, is freedom and if we make that our peace then that is called ‘everlasting-peace.’ Which means that in the realm of sensation sometimes you will experience great expansion, sometimes you will experience great contraction, but you, the witnessing of either of these is clearly unaffected by either of these. But if you say it should only be ‘expansion, expansion…’ then that doesn’t sound like freedom because there is ‘only’ there.