Here, we are talking about What You Are. So, we are faced with something very simple: You Are What You Are! The difficulty here is that you cannot accept something so simple, but this is what we are talking about in these meetings. Satsang is the encounter with Reality, with Truth, which means remaining with What You Are. You are What you Are, and that is all!
Thus, it is not only You who are “What Is”; but Everything is “What Is”. Then, everything is What You are! Notice what I just said: You are “What Is”, All Is You, everything is What it Is! This is the only Reality in every manifestation, in all this appearance of names and forms. The difficulty is to accept this, that everything is What Is and What Is, is You! We will explore this here in this speech.
What I am saying is that anything is What Is. You are not a "person" who was born in a specific day. You are that Reality that is What Is and is expressing itself through this mysterious phenomenon of Life. Your difficulty is to accept there is no "person" present, but only a manifestation of this Mystery, which some call Consciousness, Being, Presence, or God.
Your difficulty in accepting this is because you see yourself as an entity in time and space, with a unique personality, unique characteristics, a differentiated, special character. That is, it was given a name to a talking doll. When you see a puppet, you have no doubt that it is not a real entity. You know it has no life of its own, that it is not its talk, the movements are not its, because it is just a puppet. You even have fun, pretending to believe it is real, but, deep down, you know it is not.
I want to ask you a question: what is expressing itself there? There are activities, there are energy, atoms, molecules, cells, muscle movement, speech, all kinds of things, but what is this “person” there? Do this life, movement and energy belong to this "person"? That movement, that energy and that speech, are they from that doll? This is what thought calls "individual experience" or "individuality".
So, these electrical impulses, this energy, this movement, this speech, are these from "someone"? Is it from the "person" or from this Consciousness, this Source, this Reality, this unique Truth? This individual experience is like the wave that the surfer expects. In a surf championship, surfers are waiting for the perfect wave, which is that spectacular, big, monstrous wave that will rise a lot, but that will end up breaking, like all other waves. Wave grows, as does the drama of the “person’s story” - a particular and spectacular “wave”. Surfers are waiting for this huge wave, which grows and becomes unique, but it ends up breaking like any other.
But what is really this wave, even though it looks like huge, spectacular? What is this big particular drama’s character? This wave is just the ocean. It is not individual, personal, nor spectacular. It is just the ocean! Is this clear to you? So, the “person”, no matter how great, noble, important, intelligent and spectacular he or she may be, is no other than this Unique Consciousness. So are all waves, which united or separate represent a single thing: the ocean.
So, we are only talking about the Ocean, not about “waves”. In other words, here we are not talking about people, with their characteristics and particularities, their unique dramas and stories, their intelligence, their brilliance. We are only talking about this Ocean, which is Consciousness, the unique Reality. There are no “people”. There is only this Consciousness expressing itself, just like the ocean: some waves are whopping and others, smaller; some represent a great story and others, little stories or stories without any importance. However, no wave is important, no "person" is! Consciousness alone is important! You are always That, the Ocean, the Consciousness!
Wave does not need any accomplishment to be the ocean, does it? Who believes that a wave needs great achievement to become the ocean? First, no wave will become the ocean because no wave ceases being the ocean. So, it does not require accomplishment. When people are looking for spiritual fulfillment to become divine, what are they doing? Nothing! This is great nonsense! A person will not cease being a person, for that would be like the wave not being a wave. "Person" does not exist, as the wave does not exist. Ocean is there and wave appears, but it is not real, what is real is the ocean. Person appears, but he or she is not real, the real is the Consciousness.
Thus, it is not only You who are “What Is”; but Everything is “What Is”. Then, everything is What You are! Notice what I just said: You are “What Is”, All Is You, everything is What it Is! This is the only Reality in every manifestation, in all this appearance of names and forms. The difficulty is to accept this, that everything is What Is and What Is, is You! We will explore this here in this speech.
What I am saying is that anything is What Is. You are not a "person" who was born in a specific day. You are that Reality that is What Is and is expressing itself through this mysterious phenomenon of Life. Your difficulty is to accept there is no "person" present, but only a manifestation of this Mystery, which some call Consciousness, Being, Presence, or God.
Your difficulty in accepting this is because you see yourself as an entity in time and space, with a unique personality, unique characteristics, a differentiated, special character. That is, it was given a name to a talking doll. When you see a puppet, you have no doubt that it is not a real entity. You know it has no life of its own, that it is not its talk, the movements are not its, because it is just a puppet. You even have fun, pretending to believe it is real, but, deep down, you know it is not.
I want to ask you a question: what is expressing itself there? There are activities, there are energy, atoms, molecules, cells, muscle movement, speech, all kinds of things, but what is this “person” there? Do this life, movement and energy belong to this "person"? That movement, that energy and that speech, are they from that doll? This is what thought calls "individual experience" or "individuality".
So, these electrical impulses, this energy, this movement, this speech, are these from "someone"? Is it from the "person" or from this Consciousness, this Source, this Reality, this unique Truth? This individual experience is like the wave that the surfer expects. In a surf championship, surfers are waiting for the perfect wave, which is that spectacular, big, monstrous wave that will rise a lot, but that will end up breaking, like all other waves. Wave grows, as does the drama of the “person’s story” - a particular and spectacular “wave”. Surfers are waiting for this huge wave, which grows and becomes unique, but it ends up breaking like any other.
But what is really this wave, even though it looks like huge, spectacular? What is this big particular drama’s character? This wave is just the ocean. It is not individual, personal, nor spectacular. It is just the ocean! Is this clear to you? So, the “person”, no matter how great, noble, important, intelligent and spectacular he or she may be, is no other than this Unique Consciousness. So are all waves, which united or separate represent a single thing: the ocean.
So, we are only talking about the Ocean, not about “waves”. In other words, here we are not talking about people, with their characteristics and particularities, their unique dramas and stories, their intelligence, their brilliance. We are only talking about this Ocean, which is Consciousness, the unique Reality. There are no “people”. There is only this Consciousness expressing itself, just like the ocean: some waves are whopping and others, smaller; some represent a great story and others, little stories or stories without any importance. However, no wave is important, no "person" is! Consciousness alone is important! You are always That, the Ocean, the Consciousness!
Wave does not need any accomplishment to be the ocean, does it? Who believes that a wave needs great achievement to become the ocean? First, no wave will become the ocean because no wave ceases being the ocean. So, it does not require accomplishment. When people are looking for spiritual fulfillment to become divine, what are they doing? Nothing! This is great nonsense! A person will not cease being a person, for that would be like the wave not being a wave. "Person" does not exist, as the wave does not exist. Ocean is there and wave appears, but it is not real, what is real is the ocean. Person appears, but he or she is not real, the real is the Consciousness.
Transcribed from a speech of an online meeting on January 8th, 2020 - Online meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 19:30 pm (Local time: Brazil BRT). To participate, download Paltalk App. For further information, click here.
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