Phenomenal Repor#ng is Just Not Possible
Awareness cannot be captured through concepts; any effort to hold, remember, understand, or confirm it brings trouble, yet simply recognizing 'I am Awareness itself' requires no struggle - just let mental games play while staying Home.
No.
No. Where is it? Where are you aware or not aware?
Everywhere.
Everywhere or nowhere?
Nowhere.
And nowhere. (Now you are sounding Zen [Smiles] effortlessly, no) Because it doesn’t have…. phenomenal reporting about It is just not possible. Now, this is what we come to Satsang for (at least hopefully). Now, this is done. Then? You want to stay in it, trouble. If you want to hold on to it, trouble. If you want to remember it, trouble. If you want to understand it, trouble. If you want to confirm this is it, trouble. These are the hundreds of ways you trouble yourself. But the simplicity of the Seeing is always the same. I am aware of this perception, this ‘I’ is Awareness itself. Is there an ‘I’ separate from this Awareness which is claiming ownership of this Awareness? No. [Silence] Is there any progress possible in this? Is it something that you have to remain in?
How can you Father? I mean it’s the sense of you…
Yeah, exactly.
Forget also the perceiver.
Exactly. Now, what trouble can there be?
The mind says, how is it to know intuitively?
And that playground in which the mind is saying, you just let that play ground play. You come Home, let the children in that playground play. It’s like you are playing the game of basketball no? And suddenly you are hoping that the game of basketball will give some everlasting peace or something. Then your parent come and say ‘You come from there I will show you what you will get.’ Then you will say ‘Oh, but my friends in the basketball court are still playing’ and that’s because we are used to dealing it in that way. You let that game go on. Can we? That is it. If we can just let it just go on, then no trouble.
Key Teachings
- Phenomenal reporting about Awareness is impossible - it cannot be captured or described
- Any attempt to hold onto, remember, understand, or confirm this experience creates unnecessary trouble
- The simple Seeing is: 'I am Awareness itself' - there is no 'I' separate from Awareness that owns it
- Let the mind's playground play on while you stay Home in Awareness - no trouble arises when you don't engage
From: There Is No Deal That the Truth Must Help the False - 14th January 2020