Shoot the SpoZer
The mind creates problems and the space for them; working on problems presumes a false self exists - true freedom is recognizing there is no kitchen at all.
Father, there's been complete burning, physically also, and there is a lot of anger, and of course while I was listening to the Satsang today there was recogniHon of the narraHon that I was living in, and because there was so much of anger that came out today, it was just like a physically shaking off all, like false belief. So I did recognize the old thing of, why did so much anger happen or the second punch that keeps coming, so I just wanted to give it up here. But what stuck with me was the analogy that you gave and which [someone of the Sangha] also menHoned, it's the rats in the kitchen, and what is if there is no kitchen. So, there is no kitchen only, that just blew my mind, and that kind of just cleared off a lot of idenHficaHon or narraHon. I don't know what to call it also anymore.
This is good to explore because it exposes the nature of the mind so much. We say, the mind creates the noHon of the Me and creates a separaHon, creates an individuality. But the way it does it is not that straigh{orward. It doesn't say „There is a You, you are an individual, you are separate“. It doesn't say that because we can spot that and we know that is it. It says „What you need to work on now is your being in peace all the Hme“. When you say „I need to work on the peace problem“ you presume the existence of a separate You. It's just like saying, I need to get rid of those rats from my kitchen without ever exploring I never had a kitchen, where is the kitchen? Because we have taken the noHon of the rat problem, we have bought into the kitchen. In the same way the peace problem is proposing a Me. So this is the trickery of the mind, the trickyness of the proposiHon of individuality that it doesn't come up front and say „There is a You“. It will say „Why am I ge^ng so angry? So work on the anger problem“, „Why am I not living Father's words? Work on the father's words problem“, „Why am I not living in God's light? Work on the God's light“, you see. And in that is a presumed You which actually never existed. When you can start reading the subtext of the mind, when you can start checking when the mind says „You need to get rid of those rats in the kitchen“ or even if you say „Actually it's good to have some rats in the kitchen“, either way you're presuming the non-existent kitchen exists. So, both in the noHon of progress and in the noHon of needing to work on something is the presumed idenHty.
Father, I could see the idenHty or the posiHon which said that it's okay from here for those rats to be there. It was again another posiHon of, like a spiritual anger, you know I've been seeing how earlier the spiritual tool one would be okay with, how there are a lot of sheets and layers that are falling.
The spiritual compartment of our head is not spiritual at all. It is the most [inaudible] spiritual. In the guise of spirituality it is arrogance, it is specialness, it is a resistance to God. So it is the most devious form of egoHsm, posing in the garb of well-dressed spirituality. If you can be spiritual without the fire in your Heart then that is not a spirituality. And this is what I'm ranHng so much against these days, this is what I'm calling safe spirituality or comfortable hell.
Yes Father. I just had to come up because I was spo^ng all of these while you today were speaking.
We had a deal that you will shoot the spoZer. Have you shot the spoZer or no? [Smiles] The checker guy? [Snaps fingers and gestures 'finished']. Your life is whose problem? That was the deal. Did I say I want checker guys reports? You can come back and share anything you want, of course, but the minute you take any of this, this is also like rats in the kitchen. „I can spot this is happening to me“, it's sHll talking about the rats. „I can spot that in my kitchen I'm imagining rats“. It's sHll the same thing. There is no kitchen. So, imagined rats or presumably real rats, the kitchen itself is imagined. So, what to spot now? How will you spend your Hme without spo^ng? [Silence] Good, very good. Shoot the spoZer, okay? And then the shooter also.
Key Teachings
- The mind creates both the problem (rats) and the space where problems exist (kitchen) - both are imagined, so there is nothing to work on
- Working on 'peace' or 'anger' problems presumes a separate self exists - this is the trickery of the mind that doesn't announce itself directly
- Even spiritual progress can be ego in disguise - 'safe spirituality' or 'comfortable hell' is actually resistance to true transformation
From: Satsang Is Going From Head to Heart – 12th September 2022