Nothing Is The Way You Think It Is
Our thoughts create a false perception of reality; what we believe to be true is merely a mental construct that obscures the actual nature of existence.
‘Finding myself in everything’, another concept. But where we have looked at body- identification, we have looked at me and others. So, this myself which is to be found in everything which one is that one? It is still our conditioning speaking. It is still our body-mind identification speaking. Saying ‘now everything should feel like this body.’ [Smiles] And you will find in Satsang all these explorations are made available to you. Like one simple one is to just investigate whether your attention ever leaves you. And if your attention never leaves you then all that our attention brings to us is where? [Smile] Maybe we are going too far. It is all true (let’s say that way) or all false doesn’t matter, but not in the way you think. Once you get used to the idea that ‘nothing is the way we think’ [Smile] then all of this will be much simpler. And you are right in a way that our spiritual conditioning has come from books, has come from testimonial reports (which we have not) which we have understood probably in a different way than the Sage actually meant it to be. [Silence] So loosening up of like I was saying; just loosening up of everything that we think we are right about is what seems to take time. What is being pointed to is very straight forward.
Key Teachings
- Our perception of reality is fundamentally distorted by thought - what we believe to be true is merely a mental construction
- The way things appear is not the way they truly are; existence transcends our conceptual understanding
- Liberation comes from seeing through the illusion created by the mind's tendency to label and fixate
From: There Is Not a Moment in Time Where You Have Lost Your Self - 30th May 2019