श्रीरामSatsang with Ananta
Awareness & Attention

We are Missing Our Life Because We are Just Playing In Our Head

We miss our entire life by playing in the mind's playground of stories when we could play in the direct experience of Being, Presence, and the aware space that knows even presence.

Seeker

This relentless voice, you say it subsides, but that doesn’t seem to be the experience here.

Ananta

But I don’t remember saying it subsides. I remember saying, you will not come to its subsiding if you keep thinking about it subsiding. And this is exactly what you’re doing. Lose concern about its subsiding and see what happens. Lose concern about that which you think you are. Let go of all its plans, including even the highest plan and see for yourself what is true right here and now automaHcally. Are you sHll here? What does that one look like? You see and one more Hp I want to give you that’s an important one, don't play in the playground of your mind if you want the truth. Because your mind is selling you all these stories and you are just playing with it. What else is there in your existence beyond this stream of words telling you these separaHng messages? Or desiring messages? What else is there? For a moment let's not even say ‘don't even play with the mind’, is there any other playground or is that the only playground you have. In your enHre existence is that the only playground you have? Let me introduce you to other playgrounds yeah? [Laughing] This playground is there [looks around the room] you see it is empty of interpretaHon and meaning, it is empty of desire and duality, and this whole playground is being missed because we are just in this playground [poinHng to his head]. You see the phenomenon playground of the world is being missed, we are actually missing our life because we are just playing in our head, this false knowledge is making us miss our enHre life, you know how much of beauHful light is there in this moment? How beauHful the Hniest sound sounds? Isn’t it? It's fantasHc! You are missing the whole movie for the subHtles [laughing] and the subHtles are all messed up, and the thing is that we feel that our subHtles are true representaHon of our life, and what do we become, we become these very constricted and limited beings in those subHtles. Let go of the subHtles, what are you? Without referring to your mind, without referring to your noHon what are you? Where is your boundary? Where do you start where do you end? So play in this playground if you want to, it's here for you to play, but lose all ideas of what that should mean, because that can get you in trouble. W Where else can you play? You can play in your Being, in your Presence, why would you want to give up this Divine Presence which is the light of your very heart, the Source of this creaHon, source of all peace, joy, love and everything, it's here, your very existence, Your very Presence, play with that as that. [Silence] And if you want to play in my favorite playground, play in the playground which is aware even of this presence. Check what is that aware even of this presence, that which forms substratum for that which itself is the substratum for the universe. [Silence] So the world is here for you, your Being is here for you, Your Reality is the Supreme Self is here for you to play with and to play with all of these all you need to do is let go of the subHtles, is that so much of the difficult task?

Key Teachings

  • The mind creates a false playground of stories and interpretations that obscures direct experience of reality, making us miss our entire life
  • We are not the mind or its subtleties - true freedom comes from letting go of mental concepts to discover what we are: Being, Presence, the Supreme Self
  • There are other playgrounds beyond the mind: the world as it is (empty of interpretation), your Being, and the awareness that is aware even of Presence itself
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