That Which Is Most Obvious

Maybe it is just fooling you now that it fools you later [Smiling]

It’s exactly how I'm saying, where you confirm, ‘Are you aware now?’, that it's the same place where you can confirm that you are aware now, it's the same place where you confirm that you are the formless witness. So I don't see much confusion unless you are trying to resolve any of these quesHons in your head then of course it's confusing

Yes, yes just as much as you can, remain open and empty. Open and empty means you are allowing everything to move, empty means not concluding or making asserHons, mental conclusions about anything, and don't do open and empty as a doing, don't do it as a body or somebody, because that is not working, that is not open enough or empty enough. Many, you see, when I say remain open and empty they are ‘doing open and empty as a body’, so they are ge^ng the body to be open and empty or pu^ng a yogic posture or something just like- ‘Anything can happen in the world, but I'm open and empty.’ But that is too idenHfied! Be open and empty about this body also, what is moving from here (points to the body); not moving from here. I'm not speaking to you as a body, so being open and empty is not like this (point to his arms opening), it can be, the body can play out like that, but it is just in your inner space, in your inner a^tude: you are not grasping, you are not clinging to anything. You are including the body in the world, so you are open to everything being played out, means allowing everything in this world, including this body to play out as it is, as it is playing out. [Reads from the chat again, ‘please clarify what to pracHse in order to avoid mind habits.’] Just this and then I don't know if it was in the broadcast where I was sharing with Amy one of my favourite metaphors in the satsang for many years. I have used this metaphor of a Sushi restaurant- so there is one called, Yoh Sushi restaurant, with the conveyor belt and the sushi comes to you on this conveyor belt. So the same way the mind is like that, these thoughts come to you on this conveyor belt of the mind, and you have just one job to just let them all come and go, not picking up any sushi, not picking up starters, not the mains, not the deserts, and if you do pick up then don't pick up the next one it's as simple as that- it's not to pick up the ‘desert of guilt’ or ‘not doing it right’ or ‘progress’ even, nothing, nothing at all. Just one plate will only come to you at the Hme, it may seem to come very fast, just remain open and empty, remain in the unborn, this unborn. So when Master Bankai was talking about ‘Remain in the Unborn’ he was talking about same unborn, which means that don't give birth to a shape, the mind is just shape making, you don't buy into any shape, don't give birth to any shape you see, that is the unborn, as simple as that. So to remain open and empty is to remain in the Unborn, whether you call it to remain in your NoHonless existence, whatever you call it, remaining in your Pure Presence, it doesn't really maZer. It is very very simple, very natural and it is very effortless already actually, but iniHally it may seem like you have to make some effort to let go. What is effortless, to pick up the sushi or to not pick up? It depends on how addicted you are to it, it depends how much to interest there is. So iniHally if there is a seeming addicHon or habit to pick up then it seems a bit tough to not pick up, but actually it is effortless.