April 4, 2025
It seems that we really only live if this 'mine-ness’, is gone. Otherwise we are living in tension and frustration all the time.
Mysteriously, there arises a feeling in relation to this body, this 'I am', a mystery which you will be able to solve only when you are enlightened. 'I am this body' is a mistake more than a mystery and out of this mistake arises the next and deadly mistake: ‘You are mine'. If you examine it very carefully, everything that you refer to as 'mine' is related merely to this body, whereas in truth the entire universe is nothing but a whirling massive energy, consciousness itself in motion. Right, but "I don't see it that way, I can't understand it." That's maya. That which is unable to experience and become aware of the omnipresent truth is maya. This maya is incomprehensible to the human mind because the human mind is limitation, is maya, part of this confusion.
We regard God as some being outside of ourselves. We regard maya or shakti as something outside of ourselves. This is because by nature and by birth we have trained ourselves to look at everything outside and to look for everything outside. We always blame somebody else for errors and faults. We always look for pleasure from some source outside of us and we think our pain-and-suffering also come from somebody else. This habit we have formed prevents us from becoming aware of something which is omnipresent. Omnipresence means here, within me. Never mind what that 'me' means here. Turn your gaze within and then it is possible for you to peel off layer by layer of the 'me' and come to the direct realization of the 'non-me': that which is beyond the 'me', whose shadow is me. Then you don't fight with this ‘me’ (you don't fight with shadows) or try to understand, for all that involves misdirected effort. Without fighting it and without fleeing from it you have still achieve the greatest miracle: the confusion and frustration are gone. Her vision has not changed, you are the same. The object is the same but something has happened, and that something did not change anything at all. This is the most important factor.
Where you were frightened, frustrated, baffling, you are now no longer frightened, no longer frustrated, no longer battling, and where you were striving, now there is effortlessness.
