Thought creates the illusion it is solving, doing, accepting or rejecting something. Thought itself is only an existential phenomenon, an appearance like any other else. However, it separates itself as the one leading, having choices and wills, able or unable to do things. So, thought splits itself between subject and object. Objects are thought’s actions, achievements, accomplishments, what thought is able or unable to do. The illusion of a present entity in the experience is the subject. This position of the thought is utterly false! It is endless, starting and perpetuating itself in the illusion. That is resistance!
My proposal to you is about Egoless State, Life with the full right of Being, without this mind’s vanity, presumption and arrogance, which is resistance. You surrender this resistance when you surrender your ego. There is no ego without resistance and there is no resistance without ego. What we call as “ego” is only a supposed entity, fighting against or resisting to Life as It is. So, the end of this resistance is the end of that entity illusion; by ending the resistance, the entity vanishes.
You say: “I surrender my resistance at your feet!” But you do not ask: “What is this?” “Where are your feet?” “What is resistance?” “Where are the feet of the Lord, of the Truth, of the Real Guru?” The feet are Life! That is where you surrender or abandon the resistance!
Another question is: “What is to abandon resistance?” “What is to surrender that resistance?” To welcome all! Stop making choices! Thus, you will let your future go of, you will leave your past and there will be no “you” anymore. That is the legitimate way of embracing things. So, to surrender is to abandon yourself in Life, the resistance surrendered at Life’s feet. It means giving up on being “someone.” It means taking the risk of losing what you believe you have, you hold, you maintain, you control, you can or cannot do…
Everybody wants to be “someone.” You do not realize how much fear it entails, how heavy it is to be in control, to resist and sustain “being someone.” I have already said this to you before: to remember Yourself means no more being concerned with thoughts. Notice it requires no effort. However, you manage to do the most difficult, the most labored, stressful work, that causes further misery – actually, it is the only thing that leads to misery – which is to think, to engage with the self-forgetfulness. Now you know: Self-remembering is not possible when thoughts are present, since thoughts are Self-forgetfulness.
When you want to solve a situation, you think about it. Isn’t it so? You tell me you have a practical matter to solve, therefore you need to think about it. But what I found out, throughout this contact with my Master, it is right the opposite! I found out when I dismiss the thought, something moves, but it is not me, and therefore, it is not the result of resistance, of control, of the desire to be “my way.” You need to see all this!
When you do not move anymore, Life does! I have just told you what Lord’s feet mean. And what did I say? I said to you, Life is “Lord’s feet!” Life is “Sadguru’s feet,” “the feet of Consciousness!” Life has all the Power! So, Life can assume naturally when you are not involved anymore! Actually, Life never stops doing things, but now you can see that because your ego is no longer involved in that. Your control, your requirements, your desires, your vanity and your arrogance are no longer there… your ego is no longer there.
Can you see the difficulty? For a lifetime – for many lives indeed – all you know is control! In other words, all you know is fear, a complete absence of confidence in Life, in “Lord’s feet”! To you, in the ego, everything has to be the way you want.
My Master showed me I had no life without his Grace! When you meet Christ, your Guru, your Master, you find out you have no life without that Grace! The Master is the Truth, is the Sage, is Life! So, you unburden yourself; you take your burdens off! It is typical of the devotee! The devotee has no difficulties in doing that.
The difference between the philosopher and the devotee is that the first needs to think to be wise, while for the second to feel is enough. The devotee says: “I do not know, but I feel;” The philosopher says: “let me think about it, let me see the possible aspects, give me some time to analyze it.” The devotee says: “if it goes wrong, it is right because so wanted my Lord and He knows!” The philosopher says: “I need to ponder.” Devotees abandon their resistance not because they aim for a positive outcome in the end, but rather because they are too lazy to trust in some positive result in the end.
Thus, while devotees surrender themselves, philosophers keep checking their safety equipment.
My proposal to you is about Egoless State, Life with the full right of Being, without this mind’s vanity, presumption and arrogance, which is resistance. You surrender this resistance when you surrender your ego. There is no ego without resistance and there is no resistance without ego. What we call as “ego” is only a supposed entity, fighting against or resisting to Life as It is. So, the end of this resistance is the end of that entity illusion; by ending the resistance, the entity vanishes.
You say: “I surrender my resistance at your feet!” But you do not ask: “What is this?” “Where are your feet?” “What is resistance?” “Where are the feet of the Lord, of the Truth, of the Real Guru?” The feet are Life! That is where you surrender or abandon the resistance!
Another question is: “What is to abandon resistance?” “What is to surrender that resistance?” To welcome all! Stop making choices! Thus, you will let your future go of, you will leave your past and there will be no “you” anymore. That is the legitimate way of embracing things. So, to surrender is to abandon yourself in Life, the resistance surrendered at Life’s feet. It means giving up on being “someone.” It means taking the risk of losing what you believe you have, you hold, you maintain, you control, you can or cannot do…
Everybody wants to be “someone.” You do not realize how much fear it entails, how heavy it is to be in control, to resist and sustain “being someone.” I have already said this to you before: to remember Yourself means no more being concerned with thoughts. Notice it requires no effort. However, you manage to do the most difficult, the most labored, stressful work, that causes further misery – actually, it is the only thing that leads to misery – which is to think, to engage with the self-forgetfulness. Now you know: Self-remembering is not possible when thoughts are present, since thoughts are Self-forgetfulness.
When you want to solve a situation, you think about it. Isn’t it so? You tell me you have a practical matter to solve, therefore you need to think about it. But what I found out, throughout this contact with my Master, it is right the opposite! I found out when I dismiss the thought, something moves, but it is not me, and therefore, it is not the result of resistance, of control, of the desire to be “my way.” You need to see all this!
When you do not move anymore, Life does! I have just told you what Lord’s feet mean. And what did I say? I said to you, Life is “Lord’s feet!” Life is “Sadguru’s feet,” “the feet of Consciousness!” Life has all the Power! So, Life can assume naturally when you are not involved anymore! Actually, Life never stops doing things, but now you can see that because your ego is no longer involved in that. Your control, your requirements, your desires, your vanity and your arrogance are no longer there… your ego is no longer there.
Can you see the difficulty? For a lifetime – for many lives indeed – all you know is control! In other words, all you know is fear, a complete absence of confidence in Life, in “Lord’s feet”! To you, in the ego, everything has to be the way you want.
My Master showed me I had no life without his Grace! When you meet Christ, your Guru, your Master, you find out you have no life without that Grace! The Master is the Truth, is the Sage, is Life! So, you unburden yourself; you take your burdens off! It is typical of the devotee! The devotee has no difficulties in doing that.
The difference between the philosopher and the devotee is that the first needs to think to be wise, while for the second to feel is enough. The devotee says: “I do not know, but I feel;” The philosopher says: “let me think about it, let me see the possible aspects, give me some time to analyze it.” The devotee says: “if it goes wrong, it is right because so wanted my Lord and He knows!” The philosopher says: “I need to ponder.” Devotees abandon their resistance not because they aim for a positive outcome in the end, but rather because they are too lazy to trust in some positive result in the end.
Thus, while devotees surrender themselves, philosophers keep checking their safety equipment.
*Online meeting transcription originally held on September 12th, 2020 - First published in Portuguese on October 13th, 2020. For further information about our meetings, please click here.
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