Open and Empty: Attentive but Not Grasping

Yes, usually some relaHonship trouble and all of that… that is one of the favourite topics

The best gie, best gie. I want to say also that it's very well spoZed… because as we are trying to squeeze out things in our head about everything in life; most of us have become so habituated to it that we don't realize that it's a flawed process. To be able to spot that that ‘I have been trying to figure out things’ it's very good. When you spot it [Clicking of figures] just drop it. When you do not spot it then you have to play out that way for some Hme. But now aeer being in Satsang there will be moments where you spot it ‘Ah, this is some [Both hands moving in the air] craziness happening in the world and I am trying to squeeze all of that into my head and trying to find some ra%onality, some answers, some resolu%on… some fixing [is] happening through my head’ and most of the world is addicted to that. At least aeer coming to Satsang we can see ‘Oh, this is what we're going to do.’ The world is this thing [and] we are trying to say ‘Oh this move means that, that moves mean that, this is it. So I have understood’ and the minute we conclude nonsense like this that ‘I have understood’ the world starts dancing in a different way. Shiva is dancing the dance in a different way. [Smile] So then we say ‘Ohh, this move changed, it's like this.’ So that is making us Hred and we are doing this because we are fearful of not knowing what to do next. Why do we want to figure out this dance? Not that we are some great scienHst, not that we are some great scienHst or that curious how does this world works. We only want it so that we can make use of it, take advantage of our understanding and plan our next move. Now, you are discovering that the head is too small to fathom this world, to fathom God, to fathom any Truth. So from moment to moment, you are starHng to see that ‘this is what I’m trying to do.’ So that is good to spot, that is good.

This blessing I give unhesitaHngly because you cannot carry actually, the moment is dropping it for you. Carry something now, carry. [Clicking of figures] What is your name right now [Clicking of figures] before the click [Clicking of figures]. What is your name [Clicking of figures], what is your name [Clicking of figures]? Who is giving you the trouble? A girl giving you trouble? Who is it? [Clicking of figures] Who is it before the click? [Clicking of figures] Nothing, all gone. so the dropping up is inherently, inherently. [Smile] It is the mind that has to work hard, every Hme. ‘Ah, this is what is happening to you but do not forget, look at this, this is what's troubling’ but you forget every moment you forget. [Sangha Ananta Smiles] The poor mind which has to come and say ‘this, this, this…’ and then, gone. Even if it seemingly succeeds, the mind reminding the story hundreds of Hmes in a day and giving you this memory that you are going through a rough Hme - when you go to sleep all forgoZen. It just cannot win. The ego just cannot win. It is hopeless. You are already on the winning side, there is no trouble.