There Is Only One

Namaste, my dear.

Beautiful report, and nothing wrong in what I see. So, we will pickup from that point about not being in the right position or being in the right position. To take a position is the wrong position. To take any position is not the Truth because Truth is all encompassing and that which is all encompassing when we define then it seems to become a position. So, actually we don’t need to say right or wrong position. All position is just a position. And the Self doesn’t have a position. So, I don’t want you to be trapped in any notion of going from a wrong position to a right position and having to stay there. Because what I am pointing you to (is that) the right position is always the right position and the wrong position is always the wrong position, and there is no movement that needs to happen. Maybe I should clarify that a bit. The Self is always there, untouched, unchanged. When you are not making any reference to your Self with any limitation, with any interpretation, then automatically it is the “right position” [draws air quotes] and the minute you make a reference to yourself in a limited way that is itself a position. And a position itself, we can say, is the wrong position from the perspective of the Truth. So, when you say right now, right now is the master key. Right now, before you have the time to take a position. Even the time to take the position of the Truth, because even that can be, if it’s conceptual, then it can just be a position. What are you before you hear the sound of the click? [Clicks fingers] What doesn’t need anything at all? What doesn’t even need attention—and we were talking about this the other day. What about you doesn’t need anything at all? And the discovery of that is independent of all perception. So, when the question is asked, we don’t need to struggle, we don’t need to go searching, and what you will find is not going to be a finding. So, when you are empty of any condition, when you allow yourself to be unconditional, then what you are is apparent to you. The minute you make a journey, the minute you take on a condition, then it can seem like the Truth seems to get blurred—it never really does, but in the play it seems to get blurred. Now, I can tell you the biggest problem with this simplicity—because it is so simple, super simple. Nothing to do. What can be simpler than nothing to do? Because it is so simple, the only trouble that comes is what did I get? What did this me get as a result of this discovery? So, the discovery is pristine. The Self is naturally Self-aware. It is a simple Self- recognition. So, it is a recognition of the Self by the Self. And the being lets go of its limited representations for that moment and comes to rest in its own source very naturally. There is nothing you have to do in that. But the seeker, which was one layer ahead of all of this, was a representation of the being: I am somebody who is now seeking the Truth. The seeker identity, as long as it is in the mind, will say, ‘But did I actually get it? What did I actually find?’ And if we keep trying to give that one some freedom, if we keep trying to give that one the Truth, it is going to keep being dodgy. So, that’s why Guruji says the one who starts this journey actually does not finish the journey or is finished by the journey. So, if we don’t burden our simple seeing with this notion of ‘Am I getting it? Is this true? Am I just faking it?’—all of these are the ideas. You cannot fake it. It’s like most spiritual seekers have this imposter syndrome. Somewhere they feel like they are just faking their true insights. But it’s not true because you cannot fake yourself. You are the starting point. So, how to surrender the surrenderer? Because the minute we even make a proposition like that—it’s a beautiful prayer—the minute we make a proposition like that, it can be recursive; it can be like that. What can happen is that ‘I am somebody now who recognizes that the surrenderer is also fake, so take the surrender and also take the surrenderer.’ But there can still subtly—the mind is such a trickster, it can stand behind even that and become the super surrenderer. So, there is no end to that recursive loop except in the right now. [Clicks fingers]. What are you right now [clicks fingers]? Before the click what are you? Is there a surrender there? Is there a surrenderer there? Is there a super surrenderer there? Nothing. What are you? What are you effortlessly, without having to change anything? Without having to play with even your attention? What is most obvious to you before you can think about it?

Very good. I exist. I exist. Beautiful. What is missing in that?

Nothing. Beautiful. Only when we add something to that, that means ‘I exist as somebody, I exist as Paula, I exist as a woman, I exist as a seeker, I want to find freedom’, then all that needs chopping [moves hands as if chopping] to be removed. But if that is left empty as just pristine existence, then no trouble. So, it is that simple. And the beauty of this is—now, don’t give what I am going to say to the mind because the mind will want to deconstruct it in some way—the beauty of this is that I that exists, that I is primary. Even existence is secondary for that. So this ‘I exist’ in that is contained self-knowledge of this I which is beyond even the existence or non-existence. It is I that exists. Now, this I has no phenomenal attributes, it has no condition, it has no past, no future. So simple.