Open and Empty: Attentive but Not Grasping

Where can we go to get true insight about anything? If the insight about what is happening to us now is coming from the wrong source, is there a beZer source to go to? Where can we go? I was to say, okay, now tell me again what is happening to you, but tell me the Truth this Hme. Where can you go for that answer?

Where do you know that? Is that conceptual, is that just thought or is it something else?

This is it. Because, if you keep relying on the false diagnosis, then we will take the wrong treatments and then you will be forever a paHent.

So, what you perceive is not the essence, what you perceive is the constantly changing realm, but what you are...So, what is the true test of whether you're being intuiHve or mental? The true test is only, when who you are is apparent to you, you're being intuiHve. Because you can only check on who you are truly intuiHvely, you can never do it with the mind. So, as who you are is apparent to you, what is flowing through you, what is appearing for you, what your mouth is saying, what your hands are wriHng, where your feet feet are moving, all of that is intuiHve. But in the idenHfied place, where we take ourselves to be that which the mind is saying, the world is sHll moving in the light of Consciousness, but it can feel like I am in it as an individual. Then the way to be is to just be, and another way of saying that is to be headless. So, the way to be intuiHve is to not be in the head. But many Hmes, the head itself is very good at posing as if it is intuiHon. It'll give you spiritual advice, Satsang sounding words will come to your head and then you will feel like 'But this is true'. It is not true, because everything that is said is true for the moment, there is no Truth permanently, you see. In Satsang when something is being said it is appropriate just for that moment, but the mind will use it as if it is a repository of gospel truth or something like that. But it can never be that. But because it uses those words which sound like the words from the Guru, then it can feel like 'But this must be true', because it just sounds like the Master. Instead of that, just go, if you need a pointer like 'Am I aware now', and allow yourself to remain headless in the apparency of this Self knowledge. In the apparency of this Self knowledge, where what you are truly is apparent to you. Not that you're thinking that you are Awareness, not that you're perceiving something special. Just that which is beyond both of these modes of knowledge. Then you're being intuiHve.

We'll be guided intuiHvely, if that is the guidance you need to hear at that point, that some effort is needed to not be mental. But again, just be careful of the proclamaHons of the mind saying that this is what you need, or this is what you don't need. Try it with me. Just stay as what you are is apparent to you. Stay like that, and your aZenHon can go anywhere. Now, tell me, speak from there. [Silence]

And you may find that words are coming. Because that is the 'space' where Satsang is shared from. All of you come to Satsang to get the Darshan of That. To get the Darshan of That, if you want to hear that voice which is your own Heart, which is your own intuiHve insight, if you want to hear the words from there. SomeHmes the mind will just tell you that 'But over there, there is nothing, no words can be spoken'. But it's not true. That is the very intelligence that runs this universe, including the life of this body-mind. So, if it chooses this instrument to speak, then it will speak from there as well. You will find that your true knowledge that you have intuiHvely, you may find that if the words are being expressed, you may feel that they don't match up to what your insight is. And it's natural to feel that. Many Hmes I've said in Satsang that the words that are being used to express what the insight is, are not matching up to the insight and maybe they can never match up to the insight. And yet they are beZer than just being mental about things.