Self-recognition Is Simpler Than Simple

When you are empty, the mind will say afterwards, ‘I didn’t see anything, I don’t know anything.’ But if you stay with just this, the experience of what is, which is not phenomenal or conceptual, it is the simplest thing that you can ever do. [Smiles] Has anybody told you like this? Self-realization, self-recognition, is the simplest thing. And you do it now. What is the simplest thing? Let’s start at a level that seems already simple. How simple is it to sit where you are sitting right now? Simple or difficult? Simple. Then, what is simpler than sitting where you are sitting?

Okay. Watching. Very good. Perceiving. Good. What is simpler than even perceiving?

Ahh, breathing. Okay. I wouldn’t say perceiving is simple, but okay, breathing, perceiving, all of these things. Then you say simpler is ‘being’ because when you are, when I am, then I perceive. Let’s talk about perceiving as sensory perception, not as that which is aware even of perception. (We are coming to that.) So, all these things are super simple. Being. Now, what is simpler than even being. That is your Self, not constricted even by being and not being. Now, here your mind will fail you. So far, it was being your friend, saying ‘Ahh, ahh, being.’ And when the question is put, ‘What’s simpler than even being?’ You are being, I am. I… am. So, am-ness is being-ness. When there is am-ness, when there is being, we say, ‘I am being.’ But ‘I’ comes before ‘am’. Here, the mind can struggle. It can throw a tantrum, it can revolt, it can say, ‘Yes, yes, yes, all these things, but they are not important.’ None of these positions are relevant. Only your looking is. Simpler, simple, simpler than simple. Not even sitting. I am sitting. So, simpler than sitting is being, I am. Simpler than being is I. What is your taste of this? [Silence] It is too immense. It is too immense for your perception to capture. And it is too subtle for any concept to describe it.