When We Are Empty We Cannot Suffer
When empty of notions about being good or bad, we cannot suffer; either everything is You or nothing is 'me,' and the body's journey toward death renders doership meaningless.
Many feel like ‘We have to be good.’ Just forget it you can't be good.
Yeah and I don't want. You know Father I just heard this from Guruji [Sri Mooji Baba] about Jesus Christ, he told someone that ‘Why good? There is only God’ and I truly can connect with this so much in my heart and I just have to offer this to you and I feel already it has been offered but again just verbally also.
Very good.
All yours.
And this is for everyone and this is very beauHful, what Guruji shared. What happens is that we can be empty or we can be full of representaHons, full of noHons. Now, when we are empty we cannot suffer. In either case, what acHons and acHviHes happen through this body-mind; some will consider it good some will consider it bad. That's all up to Grace and Consciousness, how that is going to play out. If you try to take a posiHon that ‘I will be this way or I will not be this way’ then we move away from the innocence of a child, a child is not trying to be good, it's not trying to be bad, the child is just being and yet the acHviHes from the body which has taken birth are bound to play out because the waking state is a realm of acHvity. So to leave all that judgment either do not worry about how others are perceiving that and also especially don't have a special judgment about the acHviHes of this body-mind which we love to call ‘my’ body-mind or ‘me.’ Either take the whole universe to be your body and then the movements of this body, that other body, all of that… are part of your body or don't take anything to be your body. But when we pick and choose and in the realm of percepHon we say ‘No, no, only this is me and that is another’ then that can cause a lot of this trouble. That how can one set of percepHons be good- good to another set of percepHons or how can that (why is that) set of percepHons always so bad, bad towards another set of percepHons? Then we are speaking at a different level of granularity where really soluHons are rare to find. So see where is the line that divides you with the rest of the universe? And if you cannot find such a line [everything] must be You. Either that or if you are a Vedan%n you could say ‘Everything that comes and goes is not real, it is not me’ so let go of it. This flesh bucket only is running in one direcHon, is only running in one direcHon. It tries to use this desire and doer-ship and duality to make some meaning out of it but actually, it is just going towards death, it's going towards the graveyard and the cremaHon ground.
Key Teachings
- When we are empty of mental representations and notions of being 'good' or 'bad,' we cannot suffer - like a child in natural innocence
- There is only God/Consciousness - all actions arise from Grace, not our effort to be good; trying to be good moves us away from childlike being
- The division we perceive between self and universe is the source of trouble; either everything is Your body or nothing is 'me' (Vedanta)
From: To Make Suffering Out of Pain, You Have To Use Your Mind - 1st March 2021