Stop Practicing Duality
We unconsciously practice duality every moment through identification with the body and mind, but this separation is merely a habit we can cease by recognizing our true nature as the whole.
Stop Trying To Be Right About Anything Now, what is the benefit of going to the story? What is the benefit? Just some feeling of being right, just some mind-made righteousness. The need to know, the need to be right about something. That's all. And I'm telling you that if you'd stop trying to be right, you would be free right now. Without trying to be right about anything, that is Freedom. Stop trying to be right even about being wrong. Just leave that whole playground. I don't want you coming out of this Satsang saying 'I'm so wrong, I'm just so happy to be wrong, I just want to be wrong'. Then you're trying to be right about being wrong, that's another assertion, another position. So leave all of that. In fact, it has lee. Don't go back looking for it. It has lee [clicks fingers]. It has lee [clicks fingers]. The false has lee you. [Clicking fingers] Maya has lee you. Ego has lee you. You are here [clicking]. Not in time, not in space. You just are. The Isness Itself. This is already the case. This is the only fact. If there is something called fact, this is the only fact. Everything else is made up. So you want some made-up resolutions to made-up things, or you want to meet yourself as the highest? What is going to happen? You resolve everything, then you die? Nothing gets resolved when you die. Death is the resolution anyway, unavoidable. Everyone that you have a problem with is going to die. Everything that you don't have a problem with is going to die. You that you take yourself to be is going to die. Resolved, you see. So, die before death. Let that one die before death. [Clicks fingers] In fact, it is dead. You give it the kiss of life again saying 'Yes, yes, um, what? Ahh, okay, yeah, yeah...' [chuckles]. The same wrong number, just put it down. It's a wrong number, pretending to be you. What is the mind? Telling calls you and tells you a story about you, and you don't say who is this? It says it is you calling. Why do you need a voice to hear about yourself? Are you not here? You're here. So this stuff we can stop. It is pointless, it has gone on long enough. I don't feel like it is worth any more of your time. You say you want the Truth. [Clicking fingers] Here it is. Undeniably, unless you go to your mind for a certificate. Who is here? God is here. You are aware even of the presence of Consciousness. It cannot be taken away from you. You are That in which Consciousness takes birth. You see, Consciousness is apparent to you. What must you be? The universe is a Hny appearance within Consciousness, and you are beyond both. This is clear to you right now. You are not confused about it, except in the head. It is clear to everybody, unless you go back to your fairy tales which are in time, in space. Nothing is going to happen there. Nothing is going to happen. Allow it to move as it is moving, it is all fine. This movie is well made, it is playing out well, everything is fine. Allow it to move. But, are you just a character in the movie? Are you just a character in this dream? Or are you that which is aware of the dreamer? So, right now this discovery is possible for everyone. This is universally true. You could have stumbled into the wrong Zoom call, it doesn't matter. You could have come to a business meeting and you may hear this. And if you're open you can see that This is true. It doesn't matter what you've done before this, how many books you have read, how many scriptures you have read, how many Satsangs you've been to. It doesn't matter. This is universally true. The Truth is universally true. It is the one Truth. You are the one Truth. What do you take yourself to be? Even right now I'm hearing this. You may say 'Am I the body- mind getting this Truth?'. Don't, finish, forget about it. It's never gonna happen. So leave that [snaps fingers]. See for yourself. See beyond sight. You are aware of sight, but you are not sight. And, most importantly, stop trying to squeeze all this in your heads. It's not going to fit over there. Don't try to make an understanding out of it. You will just be feeding your spiritual ego. Are you right now, are you? Do you exist? You are. That which is aware of this is who? Who is that? Some guy sitting in the sky? Who is it? It's you, isn't it? And this You that is aware is your Reality, unchanging. Even the God of this universe takes birth within You. Even Consciousness takes birth within You. That is your magnificence, that is your Reality. You are Brahman Itself. The qualities and the quaality-less are both just your aspects. And this Truth is hidden in plain sight. Hidden in plain sight [so] that you can't leave it, it's just apparent. Now, if you're searching, if you're looking for something, you're looking for the wrong thing. The greatest gie is already with you. What can you search for now? What is not found, according to whom? Your progress in time is according to whom? The need for a satisfactory conclusion belongs to whom? Are you aware? Right now, are you aware? And this 'you' and 'aware' is distinct, are different? Is 'aware' something that belongs to you? Or are you It? What do you have to fear? You can't hedge your bets now. The time for that is done. You're here now. You can't keep one foot in personhood 'Oh, that is my practical life', and one foot in Satsang saying 'This is my spiritual life'. You're taking off now, taking off. If you try to keep one foot on the ground, it's going to be too painful. You don't owe personhood anything. You don't owe it a happy ending. Just drop the story midway, right now. You don't have to wait for an explosive experience and then it was all over. Right now, leave all interest in the false.
Key Teachings
- The sense of being a separate self is a mental habit we continuously practice, not an inherent truth
- What we call 'I' is actually the whole existence appearing as a limited body-mind
- To awaken, simply stop participating in the game of duality by withdrawing identification from the mind
From: Stop Practicing Duality - 6th April 2019