Trust Without An Expectation Of Any Outcome

Ah! Doctor’s appointment?

So, wait, is this a fresh appointment or it’s still the same….

So, how did that one go—the previous appointment?

I can speak something about this at a general level that may help all of us, and then we can look specifically at a particular situation as well. So, I will use this as an opportunity to point to something which may help everyone in a great way and a very simple way, and then we can see.

So, what I wanted to point out to everyone is that Guruji [Sri Mooji] says something very beautiful; he says that “Nothing that appears has inherent meaning, and the meaning only comes from the perspective that we bring to it.” You see? And there’s so much to unpack in that simple statement. And actually, it can become the core of our spirituality, and it can bring so much simplicity into our experience of day-to-day life. Maybe I can share a bit about how I would look at this, what my perspective into something, even including that is inherently meaningless. So, let’s see what we can do with that. So, what is fundamentally being pointed to is that Consciousness has the capacity to look at everything from a perspective of it being Grace, it being auspicious. And, Consciousness has the capacity to look at it the other way and say this is not Grace, this is not right, this is not auspicious. The thing in itself is neither of those—so, like I say, neither meaningful nor meaningless. The thing in itself is just the thing in itself. So, whether we call it appearance or reality, even that fundamentally comes from the perspective that Consciousness brings to it in that particular moment. You see? So, it doesn’t matter, whatever you may be going through, whatever the event in our life may be, Consciousness can never lose the ability to remain neutral with that or to label it as auspicious or to label it as inauspicious. You see? You can look at everything, everything that appears, and Consciousness always retains the power, because nothing ultimately really affects Consciousness in any way. Therefore, from that perspective, as Consciousness itself, it can always remain neutral to it, open and empty to it; or it can say, “This is all Guru Kripa, it’s all Master’s Grace”; or it can say,“ Nah, nah, nah, this is not right” You see? And usually we call that sort of resistive perspective that Consciousness is free to take on, we call that ‘resistance’ or ‘individuality’. And we call the neutral perspective ‘openness’ and ‘emptiness’. The so-called ‘positive perspective’ [makes air quotes] can also be individuality at times if it is taken personally but usually seems to be the cause of lesser suffering than the deeply resistive, negative perspective. You see? But with everything in life, conceptually we know nothing about whether it’s good for us or bad for us. So, for example, I could say that it is pure Grace that in spite of the little bit of resistance you were having, you went to the doctor, because although they were not expecting to find something, they did find something. So, I could look at that and say that’s very auspicious because if you had gone much later and you’d found out when it was much worse, maybe that would have been worse. But I can look at the same situation and be completely neutral about it, and say,“ It is what it is, it’s fine either way.” You see? Or I could look at it and say,“ Man! Why did I go to the doctor that time? I was fine, now look at this, they found this.” So, do you see…

…that the perspectives are very flimsy. And they’re completely available for Consciousness to believe. Do you see?

Completely available for everything. So, no matter what you bring to the table, we can turn it around, we can flip it, you see. And what happens is this is the cause of so much conflict in the world, because everybody—all aspects of Consciousness—can bring their unique perspective into a particular situation. But if we bring along the idea of whether we are right or wrong along with that, then we want to get approval from other aspects of Consciousness to carry the same perspective. And when they don’t, we feel like, “Oh, I am right, they are wrong.” Or it can create doubt:“ Oh, maybe I’m wrong, maybe they’re right” You see, it can bring all these kind of troublesome situations. You see? That’s why the Masters have fundamentally said that rather than taking any perspective, just be open and empty, or neutral, no matter what life is bringing. You see? And sometimes, this so- called positive perspective of ‘all being Grace’ can help bring that to neutrality. We may need to neutralize our negative conditions and constructs using a positive antidote. You see? Where the mind is telling us, “No, no, this is so bad, what is going to happen to you? What if it turns out to be really bad? These doctors are taking it so easy. They’re not even telling me.” You see? And then, if you replace that with a perspective like ‘Guru Kripa Kevalam, All is Master’s Grace’, then you may find an ease, a neutrality, in that situation. So, no matter what the content of the appearances is, what the content of the experiences is, you, as Consciousness, have unlimited capacity to bring your perspective to it, or to remain in your neutrality. And, suffering equals to take a perspective to be reality or truth, and non-suffering, or non-resistance, is to take just the openness, to take no perspective about something. It is what it is—even that, actually, is just a perspective. To be open and empty even of that perspective, that is the advice or recommendation. Do you see that you, as Consciousness, have the ability to let go of any perspective and to pick up any perspective?

Okay. So, let’s look at this as a good example; thank you for that. So, how would you be able to determine a good attitude or not? That means that you have some capacity for determining the truth about what is good.

So, what would you call that capacity? How do you have it?

So, okay, you’re looking at the internet, you’re going on Facebook or Instagram, and you’re saying, “Okay, can I find someone with a good attitude?” So, you read something. Against what will you compare it and say, “Yes, yes, this matches my standard of good attitude, and this doesn’t match.” So, what is it?

So, where is the rulebook that says there’s a feeling which determines what is ultimately good or bad?

So, many times, something that shakes us to the core, we can also experience a sense of fear or contraction, but ultimately it’s been very good for us. So, we cannot use that as a true benchmark for the determination of what is good. Otherwise, what happens is that we can get into this sort of echo chamber sort of mode or mindset where we’re just using everything that we come across to confirm what we already think is right or know is right conceptually, and everything that sort of pokes that, then we feel like “No, no, no. That is not the right way.” You see? But we have no conceptual means, our mind is unable to capture goodness or truth. or (make) the determination of what an appearance of a feeling means—it does not have the capacity to interpret that. But your intuition does. So, as you stop referring to the mind, then you’ll find that there is a deeper intelligence which is independent—and you may find this a surprise, because many times people feel like feelings are intuition. But feelings are not intuition. So, this may come as a surprise to you that your intuition is independent of feeling level or thought level. Because many times a feeling level and a thought level can resonate with each other but may be completely different from the truth, which is intuitive.

I can tell you what it is. How you are guided when you are not referring to any interpretation from the mind is intuition.

Yes. How you are guided, the guidance received independent of mental interpretation or mental frameworks, is your intuition. And it’s always available. It may not be available the way the mind wants it or the way that we’re able to interpret it mentally, but if you just let go of the need to rely on conceptual verification, then you will find that that guidance is the guidance of the Supreme Intelligence which runs this entire manifest play. And where you also recognize your own truth completely. That is the good news. So, this is the beauty of what is being pointed at. When you let go of the need to interpret and conceptualize and come to your notion-less existence, not only is every guidance available to us in the manifest way, but also the very source of your reality, your unchanging Truth, is completely unmistakable, you see. There’s no downside to this deal.

Yes.

Sorry to interrupt, but I have to jump in at this point. It definitely is not working for me.

It is not meant to.

In fact, it is the solution or the antidote to the ‘me’. So, many times it will seem like it’s working contrary to ‘me’, it is working at counter purposes, it is working in opposition to ‘me’.

Yes, yes. But who’s wondering that? This is the game the ‘me’ plays— to say,“ When will it be the end of me?”

[Laughs] When you stop buying into the idea that something has to happen.

Something. Either saved or crucified.

[Laughs] Just like this, come on….

But I love what you said, “Either saved or crucified.” Because it’s just like that example of someone was put into a room…. [Leaves for a few minutes, then returns]. Just remind me what we were talking about.

I was saying that one point I want to also make also clear is that when we’re talking about medical conditions and the state of the body, whatever I’ve said doesn’t mean any sort of neglect towards it, nor does it mean any sort of over-caring for it, just to allow your intuitive heart to guide what is needed moment to moment, and to trust that.

What happens it that to not be in the fear state, many times we can take a new position which is a neglect sort of—“No, no, I don’t care; it is for God to take care of this body.” But you are the God that has to take care of the body.

So, neither position really works. Just be guided moment to moment. Like I’ve been saying in the past few Satsangs, there’s no real how-to with anything in life. If it was that solvable that you could make a guidebook to life—okay, medical situations, this is what you do; okay, relationship situations, this is what you do; okay, money situations, this is what you do; for freedom, this is the template, read this, you’re sorted. Then life would not be such a mysterious beautiful game. The leela is so vast that it’s undefinable in any sort of template, and that is the beauty of this that you just have to trust your heart moment to moment—and including that you cannot trust your heart to fulfil what your mind wants. Sometimes yes, sometimes no, we don’t know. So, trust your heart independent of what outcomes your mind may propose to you, saying,“ Oh, I trusted my heart and look at what happened—so great or so bad.” It is not meant to be trusted that way. Trust without a judgement of any outcome or any expectation of any outcome.

Yes, just intuition. And I just talked about intuition. How do you know you’re accessing intuition? When you’re not relying on conceptual knowledge, that is when your intuition is guiding you.

Ultimately, there is no wrong.

You’re so welcome, so welcome.