freedom is already here underneath the movement of the conditioned mind there
is already in you the vast spaciousness stillness and
depth of the unconditioned so there's nothing that needs to happen as such and
yet in the course of this evening I may point out certain things that look as if
you could do something about it
for example I might say enter the state of surrender to what is this moment so
you want me to do something what I thought you said it's not in happening
there's nothing you need to do well maybe surrender is not a doing at all
it's an allowing but it looks when one speaks of it as if it were as if you
could do something many statements the timeless we are entering the timeless
state of consciousness it arises because the conditioned state is totally linked
to time it operates this conditioned entity the mind made self operates
entirely through past and future it knows only past and future and the
future is a repetition of the past the redemptive power of now is totally
obscured the only place of freedom is obscured by that mind movement that is
only interested in past and future but that basically means it is only
interested in repeating the past and that is what usually happens
so we are here to step out of that or the words only point to the state that
is timeless the state of consciousness that is timeless and we're entering that
together at the moment I've mostly been speaking of the bad news but that is
important the bad news the illusory entity and the suffering that is created
created by that we need to see that fully that is already the beginning of
liberation but it looks on the surface as if I were talking only about bad news
and if you don't she don't listen from the depths of your being if you only
listen through the story entity I'm not addressing this story-based entity but
there may be one or two of you here who listen to these words already through
the mind main story based entity and it will feel insulted by these words how
dare you suggest that my grievances and my complaints are not justified and real
how dare you say that I have no right to complain to suggest it's an illusion my
problems are so my complaints are so real and I have a right this is the
entity and so one or two of you goes through this reaction who is reacting
when I point to illusion within yourself and there is a reaction who is it that
is reacting the illusion it doesn't like to hear that it feels it's a a great
insult to suggest that perhaps the unhappiness that you carry as
part of your sense of self could perhaps be an illusion that it was very identity
that you cling to but many of you are still sitting here one or two are going
to walk out maybe three or four five or six small percentage it is not that
means those words are not reaching the deeper level of your being and not being
received by that they are be there they only hit the conditions and the
condition doesn't like what it's hearing because I'm threatening it's very
survival let's get out of here ever haps even shout something is the last triumph
of the conditioned entity it's happened once or twice in meetings absolute
nonsense and door slams so the words
something within you if if you're still here recognizes recognizes the truth and
it actually feels good to see the false as false you're ready no longer totally
identified with those mind movements through that seeing so the pointing to
the false and the pointing to the real which are both part of this teaching may
very well use contradict seemingly contradictory perspectives the timeless
state of consciousness we are entering the unconditioned or timeless State
consciousness is emerging here so that you don't derive your sense of self
anymore from the conditioned mind movements but from that which is beyond
time there's still a lot vibrantly alive presence fast intelligent that is there
underneath all that but we have another contradiction here because as we are
entering the timeless state of consciousness and we are spending three
hours on this time yes there's a little paradox here but it's fine you could say
well why don't we only need one moment and we travel deeper into that state
which is another paradox because to say deeper implies time but let's instead of
resolving the paradox just leave it because it's not an explanation
they are simply pointers so it disease of force in oneself to observe those
mind movements to recognize that your story your identity your sense of self
is not the only one that didn't quite work out this you can sometimes people
are under that illusion that others people's stories have worked
none of them works for long meet famous people rich people
go beyond the glossy surface that you see in magazines talk to them meet them
and see enormous sense of dissatisfaction black fear not enough so
they need more even more you could become a great leader leader of this
country and then you might think oh I finally made it my life is now become
free of limitation I'm all-powerful and two years later you find yourself in
prison if you're lucky and you have another limitation so there's the
movement of thought there's identification with the movement
of thought and there's the arising of the awareness of those thought movements
and then as the awareness arises you see a very we've already pointed to
grievances we pointed to complains we've pointed to repeating the story in your
head to reinforce it we've pointed to perhaps or maybe we didn't it's awesome
to repeat your story to other people to reinforce it please confirm to me that
my problems at my story are real listen that you are yes
you truly have been treated unfairly by life you're right that you feeling sorry
for yourself you know fully sorry for myself that's selfies beginning night
too so we've seen many of those very predominant movements associated with
living in and through a false sense of self and now there's one more
fundamental one that we need to address I pointed to it last night that it needs
to obscure that now because it can only function through past and future so as
we saw last night if you live through that for sense of self your relationship
with now which is all they ever is which means with life life itself life and our
inseparable your relationship with now is predominantly a hostile one a
resisting one one that denies the now tries to get away from it
resists it internally complains about it mentally or makes it into a stepping
stone to the next moment which little mean the head says is an
important one because there it's going to be a little bit better when I arrive
there so the relationship that you have with now which is the relationship with
life is then one that is problematic of conflict basically you are in conflict
with now you deny now you resist now you complain about now
you protect yourself away from now and now it's life and so you're condemned to
living in this abstract reality never knowing the depths of now the depth of
life the fullness of life that can only be here in the space of now the only
place where life is is now so you can see the mind movement that seeks to deny
that a very fundamental one in seeing it freedom arises and seeing it is the
arising of presence a state in which
that now is not resisted and that is the beginning of the collapse of the
conditioned in going entity and the story based identity the now is not
resisted anymore you are able as presence arises to welcome this moment
as it is we saw that yesterday as the primordial spiritual practice that
requires no time to align yourself with now to make it your friend
unconditionally say yes because you see the madness and the futility of saying
no to the isness of now to deny is is to
deny the universe the form that this now takes could never be otherwise because
the in whatever form arises and this moment is totally interconnected with
the whole it's only through our limited perspective that we think there is an
isolated event here that shouldn't have happened but that seemingly isolated
event is simply is that there's a web of interconnectedness with the distraught
ality of this seeming isolated event there isn't even an event so whatever
appears in the now is as it is it could not be otherwise which doesn't mean that
action cannot arise through you to respond to the need of the challenge of
now but then now the isness of now is as it is the totality has brought it about
soon to be not aligned with that isn't it your with you tie yourself into a
little knot in the fabric of existence and that little knot says no and he
claims a separate identity for itself who me and he is the rest of this
threatening and dreadful universe that seems to conspire against me and put
obstacles in my path continuously but I am going to make it just I'll show them
and now here we come now to the essence and then recorded even deeper we saw
last night that more often than not the form that this now takes as an event
seeming event a past the situation in place a challenge is only the fall of
now it is not the now the now is eternal timeless spacious pure consciousness and
it is you nothing that takes form is you
the essence of unconsciousness the essence of bondage the essence of
suffering is to mistake who you are for some form sword movements identification
with this and that but ultimately it all goes down to identification with thought
and emotions that arise to really with thought which are energy forms and you
have seek yourself in it and see completion through adding more forms to
the content of your mind what else can identify ways to make my
story better or if you're deeply trapped in an unhappy story identity
unconsciously you're saying what else can I identify ways to add to my bad
story in other words you're looking for the next bad thing because
bad things will fit into a bad storyline a good thing doesn't fit into my story
anymore if I'm identified with a bad mind based identity and story I'm
looking for the next bad thing I don't know that of course I'm saying I'm
looking for happiness and then you seek exactly the thing that gives you more
unhappiness so form so it's a search through some added form to fight a bit
more of myself and that is the essence of delusion and bondage and suffering
because suffering is whenever you are identified with form suffering arises
because every form is limited and the limitation of that form and it's
short-lived so the two factors that every form is limited every thought
every physical form everything in form is limited and as the Buddha put it
impermanent in other words for leading and as the Buddha also put it
unsatisfactory beautiful he saw it he saw it so clearly and what he people to
construct you to huge edifice of philosophy Buddhist philosophy the
simplicity saw identification with form is in the Pali language I'm terrified
I very rarely called strange foreign words but it's so beautiful in the Pali
language the essence of human existence in the deluded state is dukkha needs an
utter suffering impermanence not self you're seeking itself where you cannot
find yourself in form suffering it's impermanent it's not self whatever
condition you encounter try to identify with it brings you suffering it's not
self it's fleeting and so you move looking
it is not only the essence of suffering this identification with form it is also
the essence of what we could call evil people doing dreadful things
to other human beings or to other life-forms of the planet or to the
planet itself and it's identification with form how does that work what
happened two days ago not far from here people found a train 58 people were
killed burned to death traveling on a train how does that connect with what we
are talking about these people they belong to two different religions and
each group of people derives their sense of self of me or us which is a mind
based sense of self from a conceptualized and an accumulation of
certain beliefs that they identify with as me or us their mind movements belief
systems this gives us our sense of who we are it's a conceptualized collective
identity and the others have a different conceptualized set so they need their
enemies to strengthen this very tenuous sense of identity this never feels
strong enough so they love having enemies to feel more strongly who they
are through being able to find someone else strengthens to be able to in a
position of rightness because both factions believe that they are right
they are totally identified with one mental position their sense of self is
in this form of that mental position a totally totally inability to see another
position and not recognized it is only a position the mental position not those
a minute but they they said illusion office their identity is in it and so
it's easy to kill somebody because you have desensitized yourself to the
aliveness of another human being by labeling it we put a few mental concepts
on another human being or group of human beings whatever that concept may be you
could say believer that label can be enough to justify killing of us an
unbeliever unbelievers no longer human being its conceptualized you inhabit a
conceptualized universe and as a concept you can no longer sense what you are
doing or you can say American you know look at you can say or the other sane
Muslim or this or that
communists capitalist this that these are labels you put them on and they've
deadened the universe conceptualized it and then any act of violence is possible
because there's only a concept there this is the essence of prejudice also
you
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