You Can Let It Play Only if You Can Trust That It Cannot Hurt You
Only when we trust that nothing can hurt our true nature - through surrender to the Master or through seeing the Self as beyond all phenomena - can we stop trying to overcome and simply let experience play.
I noticed yesterday there is a pressure to overcome it right away as soon as it comes.
The pressure comes from where?
There is an identity with the one fighting this mind.
It is just the next bullet of the sniper itself. It fires the warning shot and you feel like ‘That is the thing!’ and the next bullet is ‘this warning shot should not come, it should go away’. It’s like the one-two punch, one-two punch combination where the first punch is just the set up and the uppercut is coming after that. It is from the same sniper guy.
Yes.
So the idea that ‘this should go away’ is also too much of a determination of the nature of something.
Yes. Then can I just play devil's advocate for a second?
Well we can use another term but okay…
(Mumbles) Again the idea is reinforced that something should overcome this.
Yeah. Now if you didn't know about ‘overcome’ then nothing.
Yeah.
It can sound too simplistic to the mind-‘But what?Forget about it?’ [Chuckles] if you didn't know ‘overcome’ you don't have to overcome it. Only once you know ‘overcome’ you feel,[Says with a serious face] ‘That’s what I have to do with it , I have to overcome it.’ [Laughs] It's insane stuff. [Laughing] Either I'm crazy or it's truly absurd. It could be both also.[Chuckling]
Something wants to ask for a tool to actually just let it play or what, when it comes, something like this is coming.
Option one let it play, option two…
Give it to you.
That’s same, same thing, three…?
Inquire, that is too much.
I think you can let it play only if you trust that it cannot hurt you. Which means to surrender it to me. We cannot allow anything to just play if you feel like ‘But this can actually hurt me.’ So surrendering it to Divinity or to Master’s Grace only means that ‘I am not hurt by this because my Master is taking care of this.’ And only then can we really let it go. So the fear has to be divested from that otherwise it can just become a lip service, like ‘I am trying to let it go ’ but if it’s still like [cringing] ‘Oh, what is it, is it hurting me?’ So whether in our surrender or with our inquiry we see that what is appearing cannot actually touch me or scratch me or dent me in any way then we can let it go. This is like if you go to a forest and there are snakes in the forest. So then you are just watching every step. ‘Is that a snake? Is there a snake?’ Then if somebody comes and tells you 'don’t worry about it.’ You say ‘what do you mean there are the snakes, I have to worry about it!’ Then someone says ‘but in the whole continent there are no poisonous snakes.’ Then the fear is gone from it, then you let it go. In the same way, when we surrender it we say that ‘it’s my Father’s business to take care of it and he is doing his job well’ and the fear of that is gone or when you inquire into yourself and see that there is truly your Reality cannot be hurt because it is beyond all phenomena then what is there to fear?
Yeah.
Who wants freedom?
Yes, she doesn’t exist.
How much shall we serve her or be in service to her?
Key Teachings
- The pressure to overcome negative mind states is itself a mind trick - the first punch (disturbance) sets up the second punch (the thought that it should go away)
- You can only let experiences play out when you trust they cannot hurt you - this requires surrender to the Master/Divinity or recognizing the Self as untouchable
- Surrender or inquiry removes fear by revealing that the true Self cannot be harmed by any appearance or phenomenon
From: May This Truth Be Available to Everyone - 16th September 2022