The mind is repetitive... a repetition. When there is no mind, there is no repetition. That’s when everything is always new, fresh. God is all that is happening! You should not run away from anything, but you should not look for anything either. When you run away or search for, you mean that life, right now, is not as good as it is. This is the movement of the dual, separate and egoic mind. Whether escaping or seeking, you do not remain there where the Grace can find you. You "go" with the mind, keeping that old model of ignorance, of suffering, of distance from God, of separation from What it Is, from what is being presented, from the Truth of this moment.
You consider the thought and the feeling as guiding elements for this false egoic life. You do not practice self-investigation in order to be someone in this "doing," but to discover there is no one doing, as self-investigation itself is a God’s, Grace’s event. Self-inquiry is God in the search of Himself; God looking at a "ghost specter.” When God sees the specter, this ghost does not scare Him and so it disappears. When there is no fear, there is no ghost; when there is a ghost, fear is present. However, if the ghost does not scare you, it stops being a ghost and disappears. Such is the sense of ego. When it is seen by this Presence, This Presence sees there is no ego.
Therefore, I repeat: self-inquiry does not mean there is someone seeing, but rather there is nobody seeing nor anything to be seen. It is a "tool" to show you there is no tool for this work to happen. A "tool" is used to find out there is no tool. One uses this “tool” to know there is nobody using a tool. Self-inquiry is a "technology," a "technique," a "practice" to discover there is no technology, technique nor practice ... It is used only to discover there is no reality in this.
You consider the thought and the feeling as guiding elements for this false egoic life. You do not practice self-investigation in order to be someone in this "doing," but to discover there is no one doing, as self-investigation itself is a God’s, Grace’s event. Self-inquiry is God in the search of Himself; God looking at a "ghost specter.” When God sees the specter, this ghost does not scare Him and so it disappears. When there is no fear, there is no ghost; when there is a ghost, fear is present. However, if the ghost does not scare you, it stops being a ghost and disappears. Such is the sense of ego. When it is seen by this Presence, This Presence sees there is no ego.
Therefore, I repeat: self-inquiry does not mean there is someone seeing, but rather there is nobody seeing nor anything to be seen. It is a "tool" to show you there is no tool for this work to happen. A "tool" is used to find out there is no tool. One uses this “tool” to know there is nobody using a tool. Self-inquiry is a "technology," a "technique," a "practice" to discover there is no technology, technique nor practice ... It is used only to discover there is no reality in this.
*Presential meeting transcription, originally held in Campos do Jordão city, Brazil, on June, 2017. First published in Portuguese on May 07, 2018. For further information about our meetings, please, click here.
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