The Beauty of the Truth

Thank you, thank you.

We may have spoken about this before, but I just want to remind myself, did you feel like the inquiry is helping you at all?

That`s very beautiful, very good. So, once you see that there is no 'me', you follow the guidance that there is no 'me', so what you could then do is - your previous report, can you put it up without the notion of a 'me'? And if you want to replace it, you can say 'God' instead of 'me'. [Silence] What would it sound like? 'God wakes up in the morning...'

It`s you, God wakes up actually, the sense 'I Am' is Consciousness or God itself. You see?

If there is no 'me', then, what else is there? [Pauses] You see? So, ok, let me make it simpler for you...

Go ahead, go ahead...

Exactly. Exactly. So, Perception, Being, the play of light, sound, all of this is apparent within our Being. And Awareness, which is your true nature, your true Self, is just aware of this aspect of your own Self, which I call the manifest aspect of your Self. Now, from that standpoint, actually it is not very different from the advice last time, because a child, in the innocence of a child, is not taking itself to be a 'me', is not taking itself to be something that has to do something, or doesn`t have to do something. It is just very light and easy and moment to moment.

So, the trouble is never with any action in itself. You see?

The trouble is never with any action in itself. So, whether painting happens, [or] doesn`t happen, it`s all good, it`s all fine. This whole life is God`s painting. So, whether a painting is there within the painting, or it is not there within the painting, it`s all fine, you see? But the judgement that we make about ourselves within the play of Consciousness, that can make the play seem either oppressive and troublesome or if you don`t make any judgement, it`s just Open and Empty. And innocent like a child.

Only because we make judgements about ourselves does the Openness and Emptiness seem to go away, and we get into the mode of desirer, or doer, or separate from everything else. Without these kind of interpretive judgements everything is fine. Whether painting happens, doesn`t happen – we can enjoy God`s painting, irrespective of whether there is more painting within the painting or not so much painting.

Yes, yes. We can only follow our heart when our head is Open and Empty.

We cannot follow our heart with our head, you see? How to follow the heart? Only for the head to be open and empty is how you follow the heart. There is no other way to go to the heart and say 'please, I want to follow you'. When we stop following the false guide, the Truth is automatically followed. That is the beauty of the Truth. So, all that is needed is the false to be discarded, not the Truth to be constructed. [Silence]

So, it is simple like that, you see? So, in the same way like 'What is the innocence of a child?' A child is not relying on conceptual knowledge, on narratives, on, you know, these moulds of the mind saying 'Life should be like this, it should not be like that', just in that Openness and Emptiness. Yet there is a beautiful intelligence that is running even the life of a child, isn`t it? That is following the heart. [Silence]

The same intelligence which makes a tree grow, makes the flowers bloom, makes the sun and the moon function the way they function, makes your heart beat, all of this is being done by that same intelligence already. [Silence] So, we are not being asked to surrender something big. You see, 99.99999 percent of it is been done already. Your breath is happening, your blood is flowing, your heart is beating, all the functioning of the universe is happening with light, sound, gravity, electricity, all of this thing is happening. What are we being asked to surrender? Only one tiny aspect of this existence, which is what our thoughts are saying. [Silence] Surrender is just surrendering the tiny .000001 percent. If the rest of the 99.999 per-cent stopped working, then there would be no chance of anything else anyway. If the Supreme Intelligence, the Divinity stopped functioning, then all this mental idea would be completely pointless anyway. [Silence]

Don`t worry my dear, that’s why we have recording and transcript, so we can al-ways revisit the conversation. What I`m saying is that if the waking state did not show up, which happens on its own in Consciousness by the will of the Supreme, then what to do in the waking state would be pointless. So, who ‘does’ the appearance of the waking state?

You see, the same Consciousness, God, Supreme – the same one that gives us the state, can also run the state. We don`t have to feel like we`re so powerful, that we have to control this state or something. [Silence] That is the same innocence of a child. [Pause]

Just because it comes back, does that make it true?

Okay. What is the way in which we can validate the truthiness of it, without just the notion of it keeping being repetitive? If, [by] something being repetitive made it true, then we would have no chance. So, the Vedantins for example, in the Vedanta they said, they give us a definition of what is true. They said, that which comes and goes is not true. Like that, or whatever standard we want to apply, we must be clear about what is the standard of Truth we want to apply. But it definitely cannot be that 'Something comes back' is the standard of Truth. You see?

Just an appearance of a notion doesn`t automatically make it true, even if the no-tion is repeated a hundred times. Just because a lie is repeated a hundred times doesn`t make it true.

You see, usually the notion of doership in the human condition takes the joy out of everything anyway.

The duality of separation imposes a belief that I am separate, but in my heart there is a yearning for my Self, my whole Self. But the mind offers a proposition of desire – the second 'D' - you see, to complete myself, and then, when this proposition is accepted, that I want this so that I can feel more complete, then it presents the proposition that now you must do this or not do this, so that you can achieve that desire of completion. So the three D`s are very interrelated in this way.

Very good, very good.