I am not what you aren't! Therefore, I am not the Guru and you are not the disciple. I know it is not comfortable... There is something in you that does not want the Happiness you seek. I will repeat this: you are seeking Peace, but there is something in you that does not want Peace. You are seeking Freedom, but there is something in you that does not want Freedom. You are seeking Happiness, but there is something in you that does not want Happiness. You are seeking Real Love, but there is something in you that does not want Real Love.
You want substitute and fleeting things such as this "joy," or this egoic fulfillment present in the satisfaction of accomplishing something or seeing things coming true, because "you" are there being "someone" doing something. This is so and there is no way out of this labyrinth, because it is an illusion. This "someone" in this labyrinth is also an illusion.
Do not try to find solution for what has no solution. Relax and allow yourself to assume the Truth that you are not the body, are not the mind, are not the agent, are not "someone." While this illusion is present, in some moments you will be fulfilled by something; in other moments, not.
Thus, you will always live in this duality between pleasure and pain, between joy and sadness. The personal interest will always be present in this fulfillment of being someone to others and of "making a difference" in their lives... It is always the idea of someone present, and this is not Love. This is not Freedom. This is not Happiness. This is not Truth. This is not Real Joy.
Realizing what you are is not to lose your life but to assume Life with all that represents, with all the completeness that Love and Wisdom represent.
I am inviting you to Meditation, which is the absence of the "sense of me" in any given experience, whatever it is, whether the most sublime or the most insignificant one. I am inviting you to Meditation, which is the absence of the mind in this chaotic and unsatisfactory movement of time, in this movement of knowledge and experience.
So, Meditation is Being! It is not a practice in which you "have" moments in the Self, but soon the mind returns and, with it, culture and knowledge. The "person" with his or her story comes back, and then conflict appears, because That cannot be obtained, accomplished or conquered by a practice. Nevertheless, the mind wants to conquer enlightenment, wants to obtain it in order to own it.
People come here and want That, but they want It in their time, because they do not want to give themselves enough time to go beyond time. They do not want to provide themselves – patiently, consciously, lovingly – time to go beyond time. This is not something to be solved in a workshop, in a 48-hour lesson plan. That is for your life! You have to put your life in this! You were born to realize That. You have this "your" life to realize That!
There is something paradoxical here, because That is not going to be realized in life. It is now that, in your Real Nature, This will be realized, learned, or understood, because It is not within time. It is the body that is within time, imposes limits, has a certain period to expire... The body is set like a sand hourglass, and there will come the day when "the last grain of sand will fall" and will stop. That is determined! Your body has a time, but your Life has not.
There is no this matter of Guru and disciple. We just sit together as One investigating a Thing that is common to both. That is not, in fact, strange to you, because it is your Real Nature. That does not make you right or the only one right. There is no anyone! There is no certainty of anything! There is only one certainty, and this certainty is not what I am, it is what You Are!
The only certainty you have is that You Are when nothing else is. For example, now, where is your home? I say "home" and then you remember it. Where is your son? I say "son," so you remember him. Where is your history? I say "history," so you remember it. When I say it, you remember it and the mind searches for the history. They are images, memories, thoughts, imaginations. However, the only real certainty is that You Are when there is no more world. Everything is only in your head, passing for "reality."
Listen to this clearly: your Being is the only Reality. It has no history! History is on the surface, not in the Depth, in the Center, in Reality, in the Core. In the Core, You Are What I Am. Concerns, afflictions, desires, fears and conflicts are on the periphery, on the surface.
In this contact with you, what I always say to one, I say to everyone, because I do not deal with people, but, yes, with the egoic mind. Curiously, paradoxically, I have nothing to do with the egoic mind... I deal with You. So, what I say is valid for everyone here!
You have this life to realize That; and that means your surrender is not negotiable. I will not negotiate with you! You are here to realize what You are; and to do this, you have maybe 40, 50, 60 years more, or two months more, or two weeks, or two hours, or twenty minutes more to stop fighting with yourself and to assume the Truth of your Real Nature, in order to get rid of all this junk. I call junk all this structure of beliefs, opinions, conclusions, and theories.
What society gave you is trash. Look at the "wonderful person" you have become with all society has given you, is not it? Is not it true? There is no conflict, there is no suffering, there is no... So, are you relaxed, resting? Don't you have to live trying to do, to accomplish and to obtain? Society gave it to you. Look at everything society has given to you… See how this is precious!
Society has taught you to "love," to be "happy," hasn't it? It has taught you everything, hasn't it? Look at how you are happy, aren't you?
When you were a child, they ask you what you would like to be when you grow up. Then, someone says to you, "Study for you to become a person!" Look at you... Now you are a "person!".
Everyone has said you would be happy after college, and now look at you... with postgraduate degree... How happy you are! See how everything culture has given you made you "relax" in your "inner happiness." Look at this! Isn't it? So, what did society give you? So, my invitation is for you to let it go, to go back inward and to realize your Divine Nature. This is the end of the illusion. The collapse of illusion!
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