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The simple awareness of being aware is already complete; the mind's attempt to understand or analyze it creates unnecessary problems where there are none.
Hello Father, when you guided us before, there is no ‘me ‘and attention can’t go anywhere or is goes everywhere. Here is a person sitting, even can’t say if real or unreal, and it is as if there would be an I, I can say there is nothing or there is all and something like a drive to merge with that. There are no feelings and no sensations in ‘me’, only this, I can’t say I am that. It is something like me perceiving it all but when I go to mind it would say jump in that. But I can’t say I am that. There is no ‘me’ but there is no ‘I’.
Very good, let’s start with that. This is a very important point for everyone, thank you for bringing it up. Now I am going to look with you and see if you can follow along. So if I ask you: are you aware now?
Yes
You are, it is apparent to you. You don’t have to use a method of perception or thinking or intellect, nothing! It is just simple: I am. Now, when we have this insight and bring it back to mind and say-Now tell me what is this means, on the basis of this, can I say this or can I not say this… All of this is a fruitless exercise, it is a pointless exercise! So what I want you to do is just to look, without sigh, like I have been saying: Am I aware now? Yes. Doesn’t matter whether your mouth says yes or no, whether a thought comes yes or no. it doesn’t matter. Just the looking is what is important! Now this insight don’t bring it back into the mind and say ‘Okay, what does this with mean? Can on the basis of this can I say this about my Self or can I not say this about my Self? Forget all that! Forget about all that, there is nothing missing in your insight! There is nothing missing in your insight. You see! But when you try to make the insight into an understanding that is where things will get confusing! You see the difference?
Yes, it is like this I, Awareness is there but I am Awareness, the intellect wants to bring this together.
Yes, it is. That is why I am avoiding giving you the trouble.
Yes
The intellect says: Awareness is a there but is that really me? Is that ‘I’?
Yes
Now you can’t get it in the intellect! But to you it’s clear you are hearing these words, you are aware of perception, that is already apparent to you. So the intellect is giving you nonexistent problems to try to solve. So don’t try to fix or resolve anything in your head. It is so obvious to you that you that is aware hearing of these words. It is you that is aware. It is obvious, you see, but to the head it is not obvious because it is not looking of any of this, it cannot! So it says: Is it real? Is it Awareness? Yes, yes it is Awareness, but is it real? And how to find it? It tries to make it in an exercise of intellect where it is not an exercise of intellect. It is an exercise of childlike innocence! It is not an exercise of superior understanding.
Intellect wants a no name awareness
Exactly, it is pure awareness, therefore it can’t be you. It wants a kind of spiritual problems and ideas of spiritual progress and higher seeing and all of this. All that is in your head. Don’t worry about that at all. [Silence] Allow your insight to remain childlike and innocent. In the minute you try to make an understanding out of it and say: Yes you saw Awareness, it does not have arms and legs, but does it have a stomach? [Laughs] then it becomes absurd.
[Laughing] Yes.
It is like a question we have to solve it!
[Laughing]
How do you know that it is you? Is it, like this kind of questions: it is awareness, but how is it you and I am aware… [Mimicking the mind]
Mind is so tricky now, it’s doing the questions without saying something. I didn’t realize now that it was doing the questions and saying something, was undercover.
Very whispering
[Laughing]
So all the pointers are available to you and you are using them well but don’t try to satisfy your mind with the insight, because the mind will always take you into some further project: Oh now you’ve seen awareness, now you have to merge the awareness in you …It’s like Humpty Dumpty, it fell of the wall, now nobody can put them back together again Now you have to do it. Forget it! You can’t do it!
I didn’t even perceive mind, but somewhere undercover it was working.
It can be very tricky like this, that‘s why it is good for us to discuss this openly in Satsang because there are very subtle things. Very good, very good.
Thank you so much Father for this guidance
Key Teachings
- Awareness is already apparent and needs no method - simply 'I am' is enough
- Don't bring the insight back to the mind for analysis; the intellect creates nonexistent problems to solve
- The insight should remain childlike and innocent, not converted into intellectual understanding
From: Nothing Is as Curative or Healing, as Pure Perception - 28th August 2020