No one has to keep awareness going,
It is the only place in
you that is effortless.
Don't come for anything less
than full awakening. If you only come
for a little truth it is going to be
very, very difficult.
If you come for all the truth,
It is very easy.
If the drive for freedom
is strong -
You will be Liberated.
It is the only place in
you that is effortless.
Don't come for anything less
than full awakening. If you only come
for a little truth it is going to be
very, very difficult.
If you come for all the truth,
It is very easy.
If the drive for freedom
is strong -
You will be Liberated.
What is Satsang?
Satsang is not a Hindu thing
Satsang is Life!
Wherever people gather to discover the Lord
to discover God, the truth or themselves
that is Satsang.
Satsang happens in synagogues and temples and churches on the street
in the fish market it will happen.
Wherever beings gather with that in their heart to find the truth
either the truth of who you are or the truth of what Is
That is called Satsang.
Satsang is not a Hindu thing
Satsang is Life!
Wherever people gather to discover the Lord
to discover God, the truth or themselves
that is Satsang.
Satsang happens in synagogues and temples and churches on the street
in the fish market it will happen.
Wherever beings gather with that in their heart to find the truth
either the truth of who you are or the truth of what Is
That is called Satsang.
Why are you always doubting the light and not the dark?
What is the greatest attainment in human kingdom?
Is it fame? Is it wealth?
Is it a beautiful family life? A very rewarding career?
Or the pleasures of creativity?
Is it to leave some mark on the world, that will be remembered?
What is the greatest urge within us, our life? To gain what from life? Happiness?
Yes, happiness, joy.
All these other words we use, wisdom, joy, happiness, they all derive, they all come out of one word, one thing: to find the Truth, to find God. To find and be our true Self.
Everything else is unstable, they are variable.
The Self alone is constant.
Is it fame? Is it wealth?
Is it a beautiful family life? A very rewarding career?
Or the pleasures of creativity?
Is it to leave some mark on the world, that will be remembered?
What is the greatest urge within us, our life? To gain what from life? Happiness?
Yes, happiness, joy.
All these other words we use, wisdom, joy, happiness, they all derive, they all come out of one word, one thing: to find the Truth, to find God. To find and be our true Self.
Everything else is unstable, they are variable.
The Self alone is constant.
All problems have to be personal. There are no impersonal problems.
Reflect. You can only suffer when you imagine yourself to be a person.
In the state of personhood, you feel you are or can become a unique entity with unique qualities:
that you can be loved or not loved, worthy or unworthy, a success or a failure.
'You are on my team,' or, 'I don't want you!'
Such words can only be uttered in duality and impact on the 'person'.
The state of ego identity is fundamentally insecure.
And it is good it is this way, because if it were not,
your chance to be free would be almost impossible.
In this life, you have the greatest opportunity to move beyond this limited identity of personhood.
Those who suffer from the ego's attacks are in some way fortunate, for they are nearer to discovering the distanceless Truth. Why?
Because at a certain point, their egos become so unbearable that they run out of moves and then everything has to collapse back into the Source.
If your ego was so wonderful and everything was going great and all your projections were fulfilled, there would be no attraction to the real Self.
The Self will not allow this.
It always gives you, the 'presence', the advantage.
Even if you were in hell, you would have the advantage,
because the seed of being in you is the eternal seed of the Real.
Reflect. You can only suffer when you imagine yourself to be a person.
In the state of personhood, you feel you are or can become a unique entity with unique qualities:
that you can be loved or not loved, worthy or unworthy, a success or a failure.
'You are on my team,' or, 'I don't want you!'
Such words can only be uttered in duality and impact on the 'person'.
The state of ego identity is fundamentally insecure.
And it is good it is this way, because if it were not,
your chance to be free would be almost impossible.
In this life, you have the greatest opportunity to move beyond this limited identity of personhood.
Those who suffer from the ego's attacks are in some way fortunate, for they are nearer to discovering the distanceless Truth. Why?
Because at a certain point, their egos become so unbearable that they run out of moves and then everything has to collapse back into the Source.
If your ego was so wonderful and everything was going great and all your projections were fulfilled, there would be no attraction to the real Self.
The Self will not allow this.
It always gives you, the 'presence', the advantage.
Even if you were in hell, you would have the advantage,
because the seed of being in you is the eternal seed of the Real.
"For a while it can seem like it's a selfish mission to turn your attention so much into yourself. But actually you're like a pioneer into your own spirit--you go there, and something happens in you, where the person blossoms into presence. And the presence is infinitely more wise than the person. And when the presence seems to awaken or reveal itself, it has the power to begin to transform life. The awakened presence is a blessing and a light in the world."
You have not acknowledged your Presence.
You made your well feel dry, and you rely now on logic and rationality,
which are limited forces within you.
You must own your Self, love your Self, because by loving your Self,
your power returns and you find your well is no longer dry.
When this power is revived in you again,
all powers you need come spontaneously into play again.
There is a bush found in the desert.
They call it a desert rose.
It is dry just like tumbleweed,
but if you spray water on it and put it into a moist place,
it becomes the most beautiful flower.
Your Heart can seem dry, but it is never dead.
It is only dry when you turn your attention
towards your mind and your person.
That is the quickest way to dry up.
And when you become dry like that,
you don't attract the beautiful things of this world.
Quickly you must find God, but you must also proof your worth.
You always have this power, but you must honour it.
It never left you; it is you who seem to leave it,
even though it cannot leave you, for you are One wholeness.
You, the 'person', are trying to work things out with your own mind,
but the personal mind is totally inadequate to perceive the things of heaven.
It is just not enough, always falling short.
What I am pointing to now is never too late to see,
but you must turn to your Heart again.
You must turn and cry and moisten your Heart again
so that the Lord's flower opens inside you.
Too much thinking. Too much person.
Your well, which is the spring of life, seems to have dried but it is not dead.
But it seems difficult to bring things across to you.
It is as though you are ignoring me.
Jesus said to some of the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees,
the religious authorities of the day: 'You sieve out a flea, yet you swallow a camel,' meaning that you pay attention to tiny, stupid things, but the big things you miss altogether.
The big thing is You.
You are missing from You.
You are the main thing missing from your life.
You think other things are missing but it is You that is missing.
Don't avoid your Self.
The whole word suffers because we avoid our Self.
You made your well feel dry, and you rely now on logic and rationality,
which are limited forces within you.
You must own your Self, love your Self, because by loving your Self,
your power returns and you find your well is no longer dry.
When this power is revived in you again,
all powers you need come spontaneously into play again.
There is a bush found in the desert.
They call it a desert rose.
It is dry just like tumbleweed,
but if you spray water on it and put it into a moist place,
it becomes the most beautiful flower.
Your Heart can seem dry, but it is never dead.
It is only dry when you turn your attention
towards your mind and your person.
That is the quickest way to dry up.
And when you become dry like that,
you don't attract the beautiful things of this world.
Quickly you must find God, but you must also proof your worth.
You always have this power, but you must honour it.
It never left you; it is you who seem to leave it,
even though it cannot leave you, for you are One wholeness.
You, the 'person', are trying to work things out with your own mind,
but the personal mind is totally inadequate to perceive the things of heaven.
It is just not enough, always falling short.
What I am pointing to now is never too late to see,
but you must turn to your Heart again.
You must turn and cry and moisten your Heart again
so that the Lord's flower opens inside you.
Too much thinking. Too much person.
Your well, which is the spring of life, seems to have dried but it is not dead.
But it seems difficult to bring things across to you.
It is as though you are ignoring me.
Jesus said to some of the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees,
the religious authorities of the day: 'You sieve out a flea, yet you swallow a camel,' meaning that you pay attention to tiny, stupid things, but the big things you miss altogether.
The big thing is You.
You are missing from You.
You are the main thing missing from your life.
You think other things are missing but it is You that is missing.
Don't avoid your Self.
The whole word suffers because we avoid our Self.
You can step out of the shell of your own identity.
There is space for a miracle in you.
Remember who you are and why you are here.
Ready, right where you stand to meet God.
There is space for a miracle in you.
Remember who you are and why you are here.
Ready, right where you stand to meet God.
Thank you, Thank you,
Who manifests even as 'I'
Glory be to the Supreme Power,
whose magnificence is being
portrayed in every moment.
To live with a heart of gratitude,
This is the best attitude.
Because without knowing precisely why,
Your whole life becomes like a tree
That's blossoming and blooming
With flower and fruit and shade and
Beauty and strength.
Thank you for the creative power of the universe,
Thank you for the ability to say: Thank you.
The joy, the peace, the harmony,
in expressing gratitude for all this,
And all that is.
Thank you.
Who manifests even as 'I'
Glory be to the Supreme Power,
whose magnificence is being
portrayed in every moment.
To live with a heart of gratitude,
This is the best attitude.
Because without knowing precisely why,
Your whole life becomes like a tree
That's blossoming and blooming
With flower and fruit and shade and
Beauty and strength.
Thank you for the creative power of the universe,
Thank you for the ability to say: Thank you.
The joy, the peace, the harmony,
in expressing gratitude for all this,
And all that is.
Thank you.
Pay attention to what's not changing, and gradually,
only what's not changing is there --
that even what is changing
becomes what's not changing.
it may sound over-simplistic, even naive as an advice...
but it is the Sage's secret and it works.
Don't keep picking up thoughts; just stay Here.
only what's not changing is there --
that even what is changing
becomes what's not changing.
it may sound over-simplistic, even naive as an advice...
but it is the Sage's secret and it works.
Don't keep picking up thoughts; just stay Here.
You talk about when you are in this beautiful state of presence, but when are you out of it? And who are you to be 'out' of it?
I don't know if you can grasp the profundity of these questions, because when contemplated deeply, the game is up.
The mind is on a count down.
Such is the marvellousness of the presence of God.
I don't know if you can grasp the profundity of these questions, because when contemplated deeply, the game is up.
The mind is on a count down.
Such is the marvellousness of the presence of God.
If we pay too much attention to things we will keep on seeing things.
If you pay more attention to the space in which things come and go, then you stop seeing things and you´ll feel just a harmony with the space itself!
If you pay more attention to the space in which things come and go, then you stop seeing things and you´ll feel just a harmony with the space itself!
Now that you have learnt
what cannot be taught,
go your way.
Now that you have seen
what cannot be shown,
go your way.
Now that you have discovered
that which was not hidden,
go your way.
Now that we are united in
what is inseparable,
go your way.
Now that you have returned to
where you have never left,
go your way.
Now that you know That
which has no path,
go your own way.
what cannot be taught,
go your way.
Now that you have seen
what cannot be shown,
go your way.
Now that you have discovered
that which was not hidden,
go your way.
Now that we are united in
what is inseparable,
go your way.
Now that you have returned to
where you have never left,
go your way.
Now that you know That
which has no path,
go your own way.
You cannot be a part of Awareness.
You cannot be apart from Awareness.
You cannot be apart from Awareness.
The purpose of life is not merely to satisfy mind’s projections.
Though we imagine such a life would be a happy one, it would not be a good life.
You waste your life pursuing the wind.
But to dedicate one's life to Truth, that is tremendous.
And it is a choice prompted by the Heart itself.
One prays from the Heart, 'Let this life be one with its source.'
Offer this house so that it is used in service to God and thus become a temple of light. Throw out the old tenant called ego.
You will never go back and say, 'Oh, I no longer want God to be here. It was better when the devil was here.'
No, you will never regret this.
Though we imagine such a life would be a happy one, it would not be a good life.
You waste your life pursuing the wind.
But to dedicate one's life to Truth, that is tremendous.
And it is a choice prompted by the Heart itself.
One prays from the Heart, 'Let this life be one with its source.'
Offer this house so that it is used in service to God and thus become a temple of light. Throw out the old tenant called ego.
You will never go back and say, 'Oh, I no longer want God to be here. It was better when the devil was here.'
No, you will never regret this.
You must win yourself back from so many delusion and misconceptions.
Misconceptions will ruin your life more than anything outside can do.
They will inhibit, suppress, repress and destroy your natural flow.
Give space to what I am sharing with you now.
Many of you are at the beginning of a very beautiful unfolding.
You will find that whatever is happening, something within remains unchanging.
In fact, you are becoming more true the deeper you go inside.
And you are in the most beautiful place for Self-discovery.
For thousands of years human beings have come to places like Rishikesh to discover what you are discovering here today.
You are discovering your true nature, the wealth of your existence.
You are not becoming another tribe.
You are discovering your universal Being.
Thereafter, you can converse with any tribe because you won't be against anyone.
There are forces that may come to pull you back into the old mind-set, into the old identity and it may seem as though you are more safe like that because you will be again walking on familiar ground. But I say no. No. No.
Grace has brought you here to the holy mountain of your own Self.
Stay only Here now. Trust. Grace is carrying you.
You are being taken care of.
Don’t try to figure anything out.
Have no strategies.
Now you are a child in the lap of God.
You don’t tell a child ‘ Look! go out ASAP and get life insurance’.
No, everything is taken care of.
Feel the harmony.
It is like your entire being is held inside a warm embrace and there is a knowing that all is as it should be.
You don’t want anything at all.
Here there is little attraction for past, future or even present.
There is just the sense of joyous presence.
Rishikesh, India, 2015
Misconceptions will ruin your life more than anything outside can do.
They will inhibit, suppress, repress and destroy your natural flow.
Give space to what I am sharing with you now.
Many of you are at the beginning of a very beautiful unfolding.
You will find that whatever is happening, something within remains unchanging.
In fact, you are becoming more true the deeper you go inside.
And you are in the most beautiful place for Self-discovery.
For thousands of years human beings have come to places like Rishikesh to discover what you are discovering here today.
You are discovering your true nature, the wealth of your existence.
You are not becoming another tribe.
You are discovering your universal Being.
Thereafter, you can converse with any tribe because you won't be against anyone.
There are forces that may come to pull you back into the old mind-set, into the old identity and it may seem as though you are more safe like that because you will be again walking on familiar ground. But I say no. No. No.
Grace has brought you here to the holy mountain of your own Self.
Stay only Here now. Trust. Grace is carrying you.
You are being taken care of.
Don’t try to figure anything out.
Have no strategies.
Now you are a child in the lap of God.
You don’t tell a child ‘ Look! go out ASAP and get life insurance’.
No, everything is taken care of.
Feel the harmony.
It is like your entire being is held inside a warm embrace and there is a knowing that all is as it should be.
You don’t want anything at all.
Here there is little attraction for past, future or even present.
There is just the sense of joyous presence.
Rishikesh, India, 2015
My Heart is so full with the joy of the holy spirit.
It is filled with it.
If something tremendous was not destined to happen here,
I would not come to Rishikesh. I would not have been made to take this journey at this time. For consciousness never waste it's expression.
Every day I am looking for You.
Every single day.
Not one of you should miss this chance because whatever else you are searching for cannot compare with the discovery of your own true nature. Take my word for it.
You must win your Self back from the grip of delusion.
Have this winning attitude.
Grace is assisting you to come to a place like this.
Because of the power and directness of the teaching and pointing, you will come up against forces that work in the opposite direction to keep you small-minded and identified only as a 'person'.
The 'person' is only a costume that consciousness wears for a few seasons but now It is growing tired of the complexities and limitations of personhood and longs to come home to it's completeness.
Your Being is naturally happy, so full of joy, so totally content and filled with the presence of God. It really does not need a relationship with the 'person'. Be willing to cut it loose.
Sometimes I feel a bit like a fisherman going out to catch a fish or two with a string, a hook and a little worm.
But here I come with a great net with the intention to catch as many as is possible for it is feeling in my heart like here is a harvest for freedom.
We have to listen with the universal Heart, not just with the limited mind.
And you must overcome the serpent's voice.
Whatever power is needed is already there in you.
Use your power of discernment well.
You have been touched by an energy of light and joy, a deep sense of presence has awakened.
It is your fragrance – It is You.
When I point to you, don't think it is not you but someone else.
Believe it is you. It is your turn.
Come with an urgency but not a haste.
Goodness is on your side.
You have total advantage for the goal is already within you.
Yet, something wants to spoil it.
It is the same guy again.
But he can only spoil things with your assistance.
And in the big picture, he is part of the dance of life.
Without him, there is nothing to overcome.
And life is a game of transcendence.
You must be wise not merely clever.
If you want to be happy, no one can stop you.
If you want to be free, nothing can stop you.
Make your choice.
It is filled with it.
If something tremendous was not destined to happen here,
I would not come to Rishikesh. I would not have been made to take this journey at this time. For consciousness never waste it's ex
Every day I am looking for You.
Every single day.
Not one of you should miss this chance because whatever else you are searching for cannot compare with the discovery of your own true nature. Take my word for it.
You must win your Self back from the grip of delusion.
Have this winning attitude.
Grace is assisting you to come to a place like this.
Because of the power and directness of the teaching and pointing, you will come up against forces that work in the opposite direction to keep you small-minded and identified only as a 'person'.
The 'person' is only a costume that consciousness wears for a few seasons but now It is growing tired of the complexities and limitations of personhood and longs to come home to it's completeness.
Your Being is naturally happy, so full of joy, so totally content and filled with the presence of God. It really does not need a relationship with the 'person'. Be willing to cut it loose.
Sometimes I feel a bit like a fisherman going out to catch a fish or two with a string, a hook and a little worm.
But here I come with a great net with the intention to catch as many as is possible for it is feeling in my heart like here is a harvest for freedom.
We have to listen with the universal Heart, not just with the limited mind.
And you must overcome the serpent's voice.
Whatever power is needed is already there in you.
Use your power of discernment well.
You have been touched by an energy of light and joy, a deep sense of presence has awakened.
It is your fragrance – It is You.
When I point to you, don't think it is not you but someone else.
Believe it is you. It is your turn.
Come with an urgency but not a haste.
Goodness is on your side.
You have total advantage for the goal is already within you.
Yet, something wants to spoil it.
It is the same guy again.
But he can only spoil things with your assistance.
And in the big picture, he is part of the dance of life.
Without him, there is nothing to overcome.
And life is a game of transcendence.
You must be wise not merely clever.
If you want to be happy, no one can stop you.
If you want to be free, nothing can stop you.
Make your choice.
You can be the poorest man in terms of material wealth
and yet be a champion of the spirit in this life.
In ancient times, it is said, even kings and emperors
would bow down at the feet of an illiterate sage.
Illiterate means unlearned, uneducated.
Now, a king doesn't bow down to anybody except God,
so he must be at least wise enough to know whose feet he is bowing down to, or be compelled by some power to put his head at the sage's feet.
Human beings search for greatness based upon human concepts, conditioning and achievements.
A sage may have nothing. He is empty, but the force of his mere presence alone will draw those to him who have even a spark of attraction to the Supreme.
The sage doesn't point you to university
—he pulls you into the Universal Heart.
and yet be a champion of the spirit in this life.
In ancient times, it is said, even kings and emperors
would bow down at the feet of an illiterate sage.
Illiterate means unlearned, uneducated.
Now, a king doesn't bow down to anybody except God,
so he must be at least wise enough to know whose feet he is bowing down to, or be compelled by some power to put his head at the sage's feet.
Human beings search for greatness based upon human concepts, conditioning and achievements.
A sage may have nothing. He is empty, but the force of his mere presence alone will draw those to him who have even a spark of attraction to the Supreme.
The sage doesn't point you to university
—he pulls you into the Universal Heart.
The one who is empty is at the heart of the universe.
You must put yourself behind consciousness,
So you are seeing consciousness functioning.
The Divinity is most powerfully expressed in the
'I Am'
which is not associated with the changeful.
You must go to that place and stay there.
So you are seeing consciousness functioning.
The Divinity is most powerfully expressed in the
'I Am'
which is not associated with the changeful.
You must go to that place and stay there.
” When you realise the Self, you are free. Freedom means somehow: You are always in peace, you are not being peaceful. You are always kind, you are not being kind. You are always the Self.. Not sometimes. Not mostly. And then your ‘ And then’ – stories are over. There is no ‘ And then’ for the Self. What is it like inside the body? It’s like you are space moving about in space, but not just dry, phenomenal space … Spirit Space. Intelligent space. Your mind is always quiet. Even if it is momentarily troubled, it will swiftly return to its natural peacefulness for that is the true state of the mind. You experience all emotions, even anger, even sorrow but they are momentary – they don’t become routine states. You perceive all energetically. Your intuitive powers open up. You understand things that cannot be explained. Your being will not feel glued in this body – it can move about and occupy different positions of being. You don’t judge other people – not deeply. Whatever comes, bitter or sweet, your being will embrace it as Grace. Such will be your good fortune.”
No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.
You are the Buddha itself slowly undressing himself of all conceptual garments.
How long will it take you?
Then at some point you'll look at me and you'll tell me, "There are no garments. There's no undressing now. There's nothing at all."
How long will it take you?
Then at some point you'll look at me and you'll tell me, "There are no garments. There's no undressing now. There's nothing at all."
Whatever the Buddha has done it's in your capacity, in your potential. You are the Buddha itself slowly undressing himself of all conceptual garments. How long will it take you? Then at some point you'll look at me and you'll tell me, "There are no garments. There's no undressing now. There's nothing at all." Oh that's very happy.
Life presents you with two options let's say: to go out in the world and make a success of the life and be like other people and be accepted or whatever your projection is about that, or something is calling you to just come into a more meditative life and give more attention to your inner being. There seems to be these two and for awhile and they are living attractions for you. Now you're being aware, but you are neither of them. Now you're being aware, "I am neither of them," and a choice need not be made. I am neither, I simply Am.
And through whatever it is the attention goes to these choices so the movement is pulling toward one of these directions. This is ok, but what is it that is aware of all the directions?
Then it's like looking into a mirror, and you're Here again.
And through whatever it is the attention goes to these choices so the movement is pulling toward one of these directions. This is ok, but what is it that is aware of all the directions?
Then it's like looking into a mirror, and you're Here again.
Beings
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