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M: Can I just read it out?
Q1: Yes.
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M: You write, 'Dear Guruji.
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I am too ashamed and afraid to speak to you.
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I don't know how to observe with detachment.
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I don't know how to be aware that I am aware.
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I still see this 'I' identity as real.
Please help me.'
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It's very, very honest thing.
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I wish people would write more like this and say.
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Because some people,
they hold back and they don't say.
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So I appreciate that you can say it,
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because I can kind of have a chance
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to share with you in a simple way.
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[Mooji reads] 'I don't know how to
observe with detachment.'
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Actually, we are observing with detachment
on many things,
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if they don't matter to you, you understand?
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If things don't matter to you,
you still see them,
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but you're not distracted by them.
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Everybody same, same thing.
So that's the first part.
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There is no such thing as
not observing with detachment.
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If suppose everything you see,
every situation you had,
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you had to remember. It's just alive in you.
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We'll be completely crazy.
Nobody can do.
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There is the mechanism
of our true natural state,
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it's working all the time to,
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like you can walk through here,
walk up there,
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you don't have to notice every step.
You don't notice everything.
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You meet a person, 'Hi. Good morning.'
Pass, pass. You don't have to retain that.
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So a natural detachment
is functioning inside us.
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It's already there, detachment.
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If we were not able to detach
and yet we are perceiving,
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we would be in trouble,
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So first of all, know that it's natural
that you meet people—
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it's the things that matter to you
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that you start to become more attached to,
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like it has meaning
and so I have to remember this thing.
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So it's almost like
you take a kind of photograph
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in some kind of way inside,
it's like that matters,
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so then it become important.
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So like this, when you say,
'I don't know how to observe with detachment.'
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If I say, But you're doing it anyway
with many things.
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If I walk through from the front
to the back here,
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and I say to everybody as we're walking through,
Be detached from everything,
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then it becomes a problem,
because it turns it into a strangeness,
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because naturally you're detached from things.
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You come to satsang and I'm teaching you
something much more powerful
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and to bring awareness to something
that's already natural for you.
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But I want it to be natural for you
even with things that matter.
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Q1: Yes, that's my problem.
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M: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a problem for everybody.
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With things that don't matter, no problem.
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You don't even have to say,
'I'm going to be detached from that.'
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You don't even have to say that.
You don't have to think. You're just senses, eyes, life.
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You meet these things. Nothing.
Just move through them. You retain your peace.
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But about the things that you say matter,
and what makes them matter?
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Let's slow down a bit and say,
what makes some things matter?
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It's an open question for me.
Why do they matter?
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Some
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relationship, some concepts,
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like okay, this is family, this is my job,
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this is my relationship,
and these things matter.
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So if somebody else's relationship
is having problem, it's no problem for you.
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But you have a relationship problem,
it matters for you.
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So what is this thing that I'm talking about -
To observe with detachment.
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It's just a little step further than what I say,
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you walk through,
you're naturally detached anyway.
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What I'm asking about -
learning to observe with detachment,
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is to bring that detachment—
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because whatever you see,
nothing sticks actually. Natural thing.
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But when things matter, your relationship,
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what you want, your work and so on,
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it creates a structure in your mind
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and you have to take care of that.
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So, I'm not going into all of these things.
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I'm saying that,
okay, what is attachment is to...
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I want you to be aware
of a space within you which is
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not changed by whatever is happening around you.
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It's alive. It's not dead, but it's not—
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it's not attached to the outcome
of things so deeply.
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I don't know if I'm putting it right.
I'm trying to find an example.
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Q1: I feel like there is no space.
It's just all mind and identity.
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M: If you are able to see mind,
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you must be looking from
some place that's not mind.
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This is true for everybody.
Just you're not aware that it's like that.
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Actually, what I'm saying is
actually so powerfully true for you
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when you're aware of it.
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And largely, the teachings and the practice
of what we do here
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is to make you more aware of something about you
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that you're not so aware of, for everybody,
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because we're not aware in the place
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that you should be aware of your inmost being.
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You can't see that.
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That's the other thing.
Everything else you can see.
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Every relationship, every object you can see,
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every thought you can remember,
you can think.
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They're all called 'other',
everything you can see.
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But your Self you cannot see.
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M: You get that?
Q1: Yeah.
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M: You can say, 'Oh, this is my body.
This is my ring.
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This is my house. This is my car.'
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My, my, my. This belongs to me.
My, my, my. Everything belong to you.
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This is my family. This is my mother.
This is my house.
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This is my country. This is my passport.
This is my birth certificate.
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All 'my', meaning they belong to you.
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But can you say, 'This is my my?
This is my me?'
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You can't say, 'This is my me.' Why?
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Q1: Because I cannot see this.
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M: Yes. So because you can't see it,
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M: does it mean it's not there?
Q1: No.
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M: Right. So there's something in the world,
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everything you can see,
but something you cannot see.
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Everything you can see,
but something you cannot see.
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And yet you cannot deny
that it is real, isn't it? You know you are.
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Now, I'm going to zoom in a little bit closer
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in this feeling that, 'Yes, I know 'I am'.'
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This thing which you cannot see,
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that you say, 'You know it is here.'
I mean, it's the first fact.
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Because if it's not here,
nothing else is here, isn't it?
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But it cannot be seen, yeah?
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Okay, so we are back to this point.
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Everything you can see, everything;
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your thoughts, feelings, objects, people,
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your feelings, all of these things, you can see.
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You can even see the quality of your sight,
isn't it?
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So if you went to the optician and he says,
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'Could you tell me something,
why you come here?'
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You said, 'Actually, I'm not able to see
or focus on things so well.'
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He said, 'In both eyes?'
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You say, 'No, no, in the right eye.'
'Okay, tell me something.'
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You said, 'In the left eye, I can see
maybe 80 percent of what it should be,
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but in the right eye it's like about 50.'
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So something must be seeing sight, isn't it?
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The capacity is there.
You don't have to ask anybody.
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You can see, yeah, something is aware
of even the sight
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is not functioning well.
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So something must be behind even the sight.
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You are also aware of feelings,
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emotion, sense of time.
If somebody said, 'Yesterday something happened.'
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You're aware of what that mean.
Everything you're aware of.
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Everything you can see.
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But your Self, can you see?
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Why?
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Your body you can see.
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Your body you can see.
You can see your smile.
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You can see your body.
You can see everything.
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But your Self,
is seeing your body your Self?
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Why not?
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Q1: Because something is aware of—
M: Yeah, something is aware.
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Q1: —of the body.
M: Yeah.
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That something which is aware of the body
cannot be seen.
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M: You're saying, no?
Q1: Yeah.
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M: Can it be it can see sickness?
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It can know I'm not feeling well.
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'I'm not feeling... ' It knows emotion.
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'I'm feeling a little a bit uncomfortable.'
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It sees everything. But itself it cannot see.
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You're saying? Yeah.
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Why can it see everything,
but it cannot see itself?
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Q1: This I don't know.
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M: This which cannot...
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You can see everything,
but you cannot see your Self.
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This which you cannot see,
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yet you cannot deny, this is your Self.
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That, everything you can see,
your feelings, thoughts,
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and the function of intellect.
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Everything you can see.
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But that which is seeing them,
you say, 'I can't see.'
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It's sort of, the word 'I' represent this thing,
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but it cannot be seen.
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Everybody, even your mother
can come and say,
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'Darling, it's nice to see you.'
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What is the 'you' that she is seeing?
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Q1: The body.
M: The body.
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And she's seeing her affection,
her memory of you.
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All this she can see puts to become you.
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'Darling, it's so nice. Where have you been?
I haven't seen you for a long time.'
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So whatever somebody's saying,
'I can see you. It's good to see you.
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Where have you been? You put on some weight'
or 'you lost some weight.'
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All of this is to do with what?
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Q1: Appearance.
M: Your form and appearance, okay.
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So can she see You?
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Can you see You? Is that scary?
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Q1: No, it's not scary, but it's so...
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Something is missing or feels like...
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M: Okay, take a moment
and think about what's missing.
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You cannot see your True Self.
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I also cannot see my True Self.
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Why? Because it's not an object.
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It's not even a thought.
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Q1: But you say to stay as this.
But... [laughs]
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M: Well, okay, okay.
Thank you. I say to stay as this. Why?
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Because, first of all,
you imagine something else to be yourself.
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You call yourself a woman, a daughter,
you are from this country,
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my parents, I'm... Whatever. Like this.
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So we are used to associating
some quality that represent you.
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But really, you're earlier than this in the purity.
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The one that is aware that says,
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you're talking on the phone, 'I'm 27 years old.
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I've got two children.
I'm married. I live in this place.'
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That one, is what?
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Q1: Person.
M: Is the person.
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Is the person and the Self,
the True Self, is the same thing?
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Q1: No.
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M: Does that bring a feeling of discomfort?
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No. No. Because there's nothing
you have to do to know that.
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You - something knows.
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Yet most people, I would say, in the world,
have not even looked like this.
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They have not even thought about this,
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because your world starts with your person.
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If I employ you, I look at you, I interview,
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I say, Tell me about yourself.
You say, 'I studied this in university.
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I lived in South Africa. For a while I travelled..'
Information, information.
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Information cannot be You.
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It's about your person.
Which is, what is the person?
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Q1: This identity is person.
M: Yes, yes.
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Can you see the identity person?
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Q1: Yeah.
M: What it look like?
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Q1: Some tightness, some attachment—
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M: Attachment.
Q1: —to ideas.
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M: Yes. Attachment to some ideas. Okay.
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But the person is also idea.
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Q1: This is a problem,
because it really feels real. So yeah.
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M: Because it is the feeling 'I' in you,
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this 'I', it says,'Yeah, I see', 'I think',
'I... da, da, da.'
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Who is the 'I' that thinks we're not sure
if it's the person or the real Self?
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'I want'. 'Yes, I know.'
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Who is the 'I' that knows?
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Is it personal or impersonal?
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Q1: Personal.
M: It's personal. Okay, good.
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What sees it's impersonal?
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Q1: I don't know what.
I know it's something is seeing but...
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M: Yes. It's the same answer.
You've given the answer already.
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It cannot be seen.
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So this is the most important discovery,
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because until you really realise this
and know this,
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you take yourself to be an object
perceiving other object.
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The object being your person.
And it's okay, it's okay.
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God made it like that,
that we would also be projected
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into the world of thought
and feeling and association
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and say, 'This is me,' for a while.
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But with this 'I' that works as the person,
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its world and itself is never stable,
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because it has an identity.
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Is the identity of the person always stable?
No, no.
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But it tries with everything
to try and to share that it is stable.
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Because stable mean it's wise,
it's real, it's dependable, it's consistent.
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I'm just talking this through.
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But I'm pointing to a deeper knowing
behind this person
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that knows the person, that sees the person.
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That which is aware of the person—
you're with me?
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Is it attached to the person
or is the person attached to it?
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Take a moment.
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Q1: It is not attached.
M: It's not attached.
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M: Does it suffer from not being attached?
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Q1: No. [laughs]
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M: But I had to question you
for you to recede to that place
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to say, 'It's not attached.'
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Because where we are functioning normally
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is from the identity of the person,
which is attached.
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Which likes and dislikes.
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Who wants and don't want.
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Who thinks this and thinks that.
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And very much is in the function
of perceiving and living, no?
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So, what I'm sharing is that, that's okay.
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But if you only are aware of yourself
as a person, with its world,
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you will never be totally happy,
because it's not stable.
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Today, 'Ah, I'm so happy.
I'm so... Oh, so wonderful!'
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Tomorrow I see you... [imitates struggling]
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I say, Mia, what's up?
'It's okay, I don't want to talk about it.'
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Who is it, who is speaking? Person, no?
Q1: Yes.
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M: What does the Self say?
What does the real Self say?
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Is it important at all?
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No. Is the self important?
Q1: No.
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M: It's not important.
Q1: No.
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M: So does that mean that it's no good,
it's not significant?
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The self is not important?
It's not important?
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Okay, so what's the purpose of it existing then?
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If other things after it is important,
like the person;
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personal identity is important,
personal world is important,
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personal attachment is important.
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But the one before all of this come,
which cannot be removed,
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can the Self be killed? No.
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And you say, 'I'm quite liking it,
actually, it's not important.' Okay.
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M: What is important?
00:20:20.940 --> 00:20:25.320
Q1: I feel this exercise is important to do.
M: Yes.
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Why is it important, the exercise?
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Q1: To stabilise in this.
M: Yeah.
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Is it the Self, the inmost Self
that has to stabilise,
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or something else has to stabilise?
Q1: Something else.
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M: Right.
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Why does it need to stabilise,
the something else?
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Q1: Because to not get pulled into identity.
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M: Yes. What is it that gets pulled into identity?
Is it the Self?
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Q1: Attention.
M: Attention. Attention gets pulled.
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M: So attention is very important.
Q1: Yes.
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M: When the attention gets pulled into identity,
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what knows it most deeply;
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the attention, the mind, the person,
or the inmost Self?
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Q1: The Self. The inmost Self.
M: The Self.
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Does it suffer?
Q1: No.
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M: No. Still it's important,
00:21:35.050 --> 00:21:39.390
because every time the attention
goes out and forgets itself,
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it forgets where it comes from.
Q1: Yeah. [laughs]
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M: Every time the attention goes out,
gets involved in its projections,
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it causes some pain,
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it creates a kind of a world,
it creates emotion,
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it creates ups and downs, like this,
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and something is troubled by that.
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Maybe the person is troubled by that.
Q1: Yeah.
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M: And in our world,
everything is due to the person.
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It's the person that takes
another person to court.
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It's the person that wins or lose.
What about the Self?
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Q1: Nothing. [laughs]
M: Is it important to know this?
00:22:22.110 --> 00:22:24.560
Q1: Yeah.
M: Yeah.
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Okay, so when we speak about—
I'll come back to your letter now.
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[Reads the letter] You say,
'I don't know how to observe with detachment.'
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Does the Self need to know
how to observe with detachment?
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[Questioner shakes head, no]
M: Why?
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Q1: It doesn't need anything.
M: It doesn't need anything.
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Yet everything is known to it.
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The play of the mind,
or da da da da, it knows,
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but it's not impacted upon.
Q1: No.
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M: There is a link between
the sense of the person and the inner Self.
00:23:09.660 --> 00:23:14.840
When the person, who cannot exist
without the inner Self,
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when it gets into states of confusion and pain,
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if it doesn't realise its root as the inner Self,
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it goes floating off and trouble can come.
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Mental problems can come. Sickness can come.
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Anger can come. Fear come. Everything come.
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So it's very important that
this personal sense
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become aware of its root.
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Q1: Yes, and when I tried to do this exercise,
I cannot come to this.
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M: Who is doing the exercise?
Q1: Yes it's the mind and the person
00:23:53.280 --> 00:23:58.050
and the one who wants to stop suffering.
M: Right.
00:23:58.050 --> 00:24:01.169
What knows this?
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What is aware of this?
Is it the person-mind or the inner Self?
00:24:08.590 --> 00:24:12.040
Q1: The inner Self.
M: Yeah. Is the inner Self troubled?
00:24:12.040 --> 00:24:14.270
Q1: No.
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M: Still, the exercise is good,
because this is the real yoga.
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Yoga means the coming together into oneness;
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where the sense of the person
has to rediscover its root.
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The person cannot live by itself.
00:24:30.970 --> 00:24:37.880
Even when it's not aware of the Self,
it still comes from the Self.
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So largely the human expression
of the consciousness self
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is self-aware as a person.
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And so it can go for lifetimes,
in the human lifetime, living the person,
00:24:51.310 --> 00:24:55.232
because it's a big world, its dreams,
and 'I have to go do this.
00:24:55.232 --> 00:25:00.310
I like this, I don't like that,' and da da da.
Maybe life after life.
00:25:00.310 --> 00:25:04.050
'This life I love, I love ice cream.
I'd die for ice cream.'
00:25:04.050 --> 00:25:08.180
Next life, 'I can't stand ice cream.'
There's nothing consistent about it.
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Except that it cannot exist
without the real Self,
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and it has intelligence also.
00:25:16.330 --> 00:25:21.810
So, when it happens to this personal self,
00:25:21.810 --> 00:25:25.458
for some reason,
it's being attracted to find out,
00:25:25.458 --> 00:25:27.850
maybe it suffers enough in the world
00:25:27.850 --> 00:25:31.780
and it wants to find a solution for it.
00:25:31.780 --> 00:25:37.530
And the only solid solution
is to discover where it comes from,
00:25:37.530 --> 00:25:42.610
and that where it come from, and itself, are one.
00:25:42.610 --> 00:25:44.890
That's what the search of life is.
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Because all the beings who are not aware
of this oneness with the Self,
00:25:49.230 --> 00:25:54.870
all of them suffer. All have problem. You see.
00:25:54.870 --> 00:25:59.090
So this is the purpose of our satsang,
00:25:59.090 --> 00:26:03.700
is that the consciousness,
in the form of a person,
00:26:03.700 --> 00:26:06.000
becomes attracted to its root,
00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:09.770
and not just attracted
to the world in front of it.
00:26:09.770 --> 00:26:14.759
And so this exercise like detachment,
meaning that whatever is going on,
00:26:14.759 --> 00:26:19.630
to go in the world, to do,
the this, and self-image,
00:26:19.630 --> 00:26:22.082
self-image, self-assessments,
00:26:22.082 --> 00:26:29.200
all of this is a play of the mind,
is mind states.
00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:35.860
And it has to realise that
all states are changeful, okay,
00:26:35.860 --> 00:26:41.110
and that it can witness them,
it can observe them, without being them.
00:26:41.110 --> 00:26:46.279
In fact, you can only observe something
because you're not it, actually.
00:26:46.279 --> 00:26:54.260
And that there's a capacity
even in the person to observe,
00:26:54.260 --> 00:26:59.310
and in observing them
it knows that it's not them.
00:26:59.310 --> 00:27:03.900
And that characteristic is like its parent.
00:27:03.900 --> 00:27:08.264
You see, the person, the characteristic
of looking and realising that,
00:27:08.264 --> 00:27:14.910
'Whatever I see is only an impression,
a thought, and a feeling,
00:27:14.910 --> 00:27:19.220
but it's not what I am,'
that's called awakening
00:27:19.220 --> 00:27:22.750
It's waking up to the fact that nothing out here
00:27:22.750 --> 00:27:25.130
comes through the mind or the senses,
00:27:25.130 --> 00:27:30.210
nothing of there can be fundamental to me.
All of it is changing.
00:27:30.210 --> 00:27:36.460
And even myself as the person
who is looking and knowing this,
00:27:36.460 --> 00:27:40.603
it's like on the verge of this way - world.
00:27:40.603 --> 00:27:43.590
This way - into the abyss of the Self.
00:27:43.590 --> 00:27:46.380
Because it has a capacity that when it looks
00:27:46.380 --> 00:27:52.050
and is not identified with what it sees
or what its experience is,
00:27:52.050 --> 00:27:55.880
each thing comes, like life is saying,
'This thing and this thing.'
00:27:55.880 --> 00:28:00.450
And it's saying, 'No, it's not this.
It's not this. What I am is not this.'
00:28:00.450 --> 00:28:07.580
As you keep doing that, it naturally
comes back to its original Self-awareness.
00:28:07.580 --> 00:28:10.469
And I say, Self-awareness,
non-dual Self-awareness,
00:28:10.469 --> 00:28:14.220
like not one thing, not a divided union,
00:28:14.220 --> 00:28:17.970
but a harmony comes back into realising,
00:28:17.970 --> 00:28:22.100
'But here nothing is happening to me.'
00:28:22.100 --> 00:28:25.078
When I go into the mind, into identity,
00:28:25.078 --> 00:28:27.630
then happenings becomes relevant.
00:28:27.630 --> 00:28:33.170
But if I even can observe
and be aware of even my person,
00:28:33.170 --> 00:28:37.960
which is like my person is like the...
00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:43.370
What you call this?
The binoculars that sees the world,
00:28:43.370 --> 00:28:45.560
but the person who sees the world
00:28:45.560 --> 00:28:48.140
is also seen from the place of the Self.
00:28:48.140 --> 00:28:54.320
When it knows this, it's coming back into
conscious harmony.
00:28:54.320 --> 00:28:56.930
That's all the thing of detachment is.
00:28:56.930 --> 00:29:01.060
You don't have to kill anything.
It's just understanding.
00:29:01.060 --> 00:29:05.240
The realisation of the Self
is a journey of understanding,
00:29:05.240 --> 00:29:07.860
and understanding your misunderstanding.
00:29:07.860 --> 00:29:10.689
So it's simple. Unless we get it,
it might seem,
00:29:10.689 --> 00:29:14.490
'It's the most complex thing.' Why?
Because you're not used to doing it.
00:29:14.490 --> 00:29:18.810
You're looking—each one is
used to looking forward, looking outward.
00:29:18.810 --> 00:29:22.500
Even sometimes when you think
we're looking inward into our mind,
00:29:22.500 --> 00:29:25.461
it's still outward from the inner Self.
00:29:25.461 --> 00:29:28.260
Q1: Yeah, and this happens a lot,
00:29:28.260 --> 00:29:33.220
because I go in, in and then it's the body.
00:29:33.220 --> 00:29:36.390
I cannot go beyond.
M: You're in the body-mind.
00:29:36.390 --> 00:29:40.110
But something behind that knows this thing.
00:29:40.110 --> 00:29:44.680
The mind cannot make an ultimate realisation
00:29:44.680 --> 00:29:48.480
without becoming the realisation.
00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:53.930
The mind or the person
cannot come to ultimate realisation
00:29:53.930 --> 00:29:57.410
and remain independent of that realisation.
00:29:57.410 --> 00:30:04.780
The more it becomes aware,
the more it finds it is. Not that it has.
00:30:04.780 --> 00:30:08.630
And this is very significant thing.
00:30:08.630 --> 00:30:13.910
Nobody can have the realisation
and be somebody who has realisation.
00:30:13.910 --> 00:30:17.130
What it means is that, the idea of yourself
00:30:17.130 --> 00:30:21.350
as being only the person,
subsides again, and is seen,
00:30:21.350 --> 00:30:26.520
it is seen as also the most subtle object.
00:30:26.520 --> 00:30:31.350
This subtle object of a person
is behaving like a subject,
00:30:31.350 --> 00:30:34.330
and that everything in its world is the object.
00:30:34.330 --> 00:30:38.440
But to the Self, it also is the first object.
00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:44.900
The first object shines as this feeling 'I',
'I am here'.
00:30:44.900 --> 00:30:48.870
You know, 'Mia!' 'Yeah, I'm here.'
What it means, 'I am here'?
00:30:48.870 --> 00:30:53.260
The reference normally is, 'Look, I'm over here.
00:30:53.260 --> 00:30:56.590
And this is okay, this is normal,
this is the only place
00:30:56.590 --> 00:30:59.160
where language can exist, in that way.
00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:01.990
The language is for the sense of the person
00:31:01.990 --> 00:31:07.090
having relationship with what it likes or dislike.
00:31:07.090 --> 00:31:10.070
Actually, there's nothing wrong
with this, ultimately.
00:31:10.070 --> 00:31:12.790
Because even as you wake up
again to realise that,
00:31:12.790 --> 00:31:16.410
whatever happens, it's seen from this place.
00:31:16.410 --> 00:31:18.810
But this place cannot be seen,
00:31:18.810 --> 00:31:23.930
and that I can only really be this place.
00:31:23.930 --> 00:31:27.945
Then when you really know this,
the dynamic expression of this,
00:31:27.945 --> 00:31:31.429
which is like of being a person,
that can still play,
00:31:31.429 --> 00:31:34.890
but it won't have that delusion in it.
00:31:34.890 --> 00:31:38.820
Q1: Yes. This delusion has to go.
00:31:38.820 --> 00:31:41.901
M: No, it needs to be understood.
Q1: Yeah.
00:31:41.901 --> 00:31:44.760
M: It doesn't go. Why it needs to go?
00:31:44.760 --> 00:31:47.883
Because you are combining it with your identity
00:31:47.883 --> 00:31:50.390
and it hurts like, 'No, no, no, no.'
00:31:50.390 --> 00:31:53.510
But all this now,
you're going to see all of this
00:31:53.510 --> 00:31:56.250
are constructs of the mind.
00:31:56.250 --> 00:32:00.306
And the self is just a psychological portrait
00:32:00.306 --> 00:32:03.360
of the mind, of the person.
00:32:03.360 --> 00:32:07.820
But the inner being, which has no shape,
you can't identify and say,
00:32:07.820 --> 00:32:11.070
'Ah I found the inner being.'
You cannot do that.
00:32:11.070 --> 00:32:16.160
Because anything you can do that with,
is an object in the perception.
00:32:17.980 --> 00:32:20.160
M: You got it, isn't it?
Q1: Yes.
00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:24.760
M: Okay. So okay, so prove your problem.
Go on.
00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:45.880
You see, you will need to sit with this,
more and more.
00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:49.600
Because it's like shape shifting.
One minute you think you're looking
00:32:49.600 --> 00:32:55.200
and the next minute you're involved, invested.
00:32:55.200 --> 00:33:02.410
Don't get angry about this,
because it's been happening for lifetimes.
00:33:02.410 --> 00:33:04.680
So, let it happen, it's okay.
00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:08.300
Just keep seeing, but wait a minute,
this can be seen also.
00:33:08.300 --> 00:33:13.990
The most intimate
is also an object of perception.
00:33:13.990 --> 00:33:18.430
The most intimate,
because 'intimate' means at least two.
00:33:18.430 --> 00:33:22.350
If there's not two, there is no intimate.
00:33:28.257 --> 00:33:34.120
Can you be confused, 'you',
in the light of what I'm sharing?
00:33:34.120 --> 00:33:36.900
Q1: No, no.
M: Thank you.
00:33:36.900 --> 00:33:40.050
But you can be aware of confusion.
Q1: Yeah.
00:33:40.050 --> 00:33:44.520
M: If you can be aware of confusion
without identifying with confusion,
00:33:44.520 --> 00:33:47.500
are you cheating?
00:33:47.500 --> 00:33:50.350
Q1: No, no. [laughs]
00:33:52.459 --> 00:33:54.969
M: Very good.
00:33:56.920 --> 00:34:01.620
So let's start again from the beginning.
What's your problem?
00:34:09.700 --> 00:34:16.420
Q1: That when I do this exercise,
I believe I need to find something.
00:34:16.420 --> 00:34:20.873
M: 'I' being what? Qualify your status here.
00:34:20.873 --> 00:34:22.870
Q1: The person.
00:34:22.870 --> 00:34:26.090
M: When the person do the exercise?
Q1: Yeah.
00:34:26.090 --> 00:34:31.380
M: There's another word for person
in this exercise,
00:34:31.380 --> 00:34:34.170
I would call it,
00:34:34.170 --> 00:34:42.900
when the personalised intelligence of the truth,
00:34:42.900 --> 00:34:48.100
when the personal intelligence of God
00:34:48.100 --> 00:34:54.820
gets confused with its projections,
then it's like it's lost to itself.
00:34:54.820 --> 00:34:57.110
It's like it's lost to itself.
00:34:57.110 --> 00:35:01.980
When that loss to itself becomes painful,
00:35:01.980 --> 00:35:07.570
you're on the brink of awakening.
You understand?
00:35:07.570 --> 00:35:12.070
Because if you're not troubled by it,
then you will not go beyond it.
00:35:12.070 --> 00:35:17.210
Q1: When it's just pain, pain, pain. [laughs]
00:35:17.210 --> 00:35:22.430
M: 'No pain, no gain,' they say.
You have to...
00:35:22.430 --> 00:35:28.020
It's like, in a way,
you're giving birth to yourself.
00:35:28.020 --> 00:35:35.540
Q1: Because I sit and I do,
but I feel like there is no result.
00:35:35.540 --> 00:35:39.550
M: You, again, who is sitting and looking, is what?
00:35:39.550 --> 00:35:42.740
Q1: The person.
[laughter]
00:35:45.040 --> 00:35:47.878
M: Does it matter that
we are catching it like that?
00:35:47.878 --> 00:35:49.980
That it's the person doing it,
00:35:49.980 --> 00:35:54.320
and that what the person cries about today,
laughs about another moment,
00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:56.880
that it's not consistent.
00:35:56.880 --> 00:36:01.100
And even if it says, 'Eureka, I found the Self!'
Can it be true?
00:36:01.100 --> 00:36:03.530
Q1: No.
M: Why not?
00:36:03.530 --> 00:36:06.080
Q1: Because it cannot be seen.
00:36:06.080 --> 00:36:10.308
Q1: And if it lends to some illusion of...
00:36:10.308 --> 00:36:14.620
M: So then what's the practice for?
00:36:18.280 --> 00:36:22.720
Q1: To become aware of all this—
00:36:27.740 --> 00:36:34.170
wrong ideas.
M: Yeah, that's one way we can put it.
00:36:34.170 --> 00:36:36.950
Tell me another way we can put it.
That's good.
00:36:36.950 --> 00:36:41.040
I take that, to become aware
of all these kind of little—
00:36:41.040 --> 00:36:46.790
all these little kind of distortions
of understanding,
00:36:46.790 --> 00:36:51.020
to become aware of them.
More subtle than that.
00:36:51.020 --> 00:36:56.780
By becoming aware of them,
you become aware of what?
00:36:56.780 --> 00:37:01.720
Q1: Of that which is seeing.
M: Is seeing, yeah.
00:37:01.720 --> 00:37:07.140
How can you become...
be aware of it phenomenally?
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Can you become aware of it phenomenally?
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Q1: No.
M: No.
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So therefore, you become aware of what?
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Q1: It feels like it's just the moments
of this awareness.
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M: Yeah. It will flicker before,
because you're not used to it.
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The reflex is used to going out and connecting
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with objects of projections
and perception, used to that.
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But now I'm asking you to...
All this is happening for everyone.
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And even the one who says,
'But this is happening to me,
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and I find it frustrating!'
With where I'm asking you to do,
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is to see that that also
is an aspect of the mind.
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But all of these aspects, they came originally
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from out of this projection forward.
Can you see?
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Q1: Yeah.
M: Yeah.
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And that the real opportunity
is in seeing this.
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But still something is feeling,
'No, but mind is still troubling.
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Mind is still troubling.'
No, don't worry. It's troubling who?
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Who is the mind troubling?
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We can say together after three. One, two, three.
Q1: No one.
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M: The person. Oh, no one!
Oh, you beat me to it!
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It's troubling no one!
It's troubling no one.
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That's a better answer than the person.
[Questioner laughs]
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M: You see this?
Q1: Yeah.
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M: Okay.
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So now what?
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It's enough or not enough?
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Q1: I don't know.
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M: Who is saying? Who is...
Where this answer is coming from?
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I can accept it, or I can question it,
'I don't know.'
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'I'-who don't know?
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Q1: It's the person.
M: It's the person.
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Q1: Yeah.
M: Yeah, sure?
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Q1: No. [laughs]
M: It can be from the person.
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If you say it's from the person, okay,
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then I would say, You give me one more move.
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But what's aware that it's coming from the person?
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Q1: Yes. Something feels like it's not satisfied,
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but I should not go after.
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M: Yes. This is a powerful seeing,
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'Something feels not satisfied.'
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That which feels not satisfied,
it's personal or impersonal?
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Q1: It's personal.
M: Personal.
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You see, if that gets you each time,
like the person goes,
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'Yeah, I know, Guruji,
but, you know, can't get... ' Who's speaking?
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Q1: Person.
M: Yeah.
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So we will finish on that note?
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Q1: Uh, person? No. [laughs]
M: Thank you. Okay. Where?
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What does finish mean?
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Q1: Just this conversation.
Finish the conversation.
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M: The conversation can finish
in its oral manifestation.
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It may go to be some kind of little stuff
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in the mind that feels like,
'Yeah, I don't know.
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I had a talk with Mooji,
and it was really clear,
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but now it's not clear.' Is report from?
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Q1: The mind.
M: From the mind.
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And it is that ultimate?
Q1: No.
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M: No. What is ultimate?
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Q1: That which is aware of this.
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M: Yes, yes.
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M: Which is where?
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Q1: It's nowhere.
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M: Why are you smiling?
[Questioner laughs]
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So, you have a problem?
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Q1: No.
[Laughter]
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Can you, from this place of answering,
ever have a problem?
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Q1: No. No.
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M: Are you sad or happy about this?
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Q1: Nothing.
M: Very good.
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More subtle than even happy.
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Yeah. We're good?
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If you go walking
and the mind comes again and says,
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'I can't remember anything about that.
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I'm going to try and see if I can
get that mood back.' Was it a mood?
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Q1: No.
M: It's not a mood. [laughter]
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Can you lose this?
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Q1: No.
M: No.
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Can you possess this?
Q1: No.
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M: Very good.
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I'm happy. Very good.
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So, the rest I don't have to read, no?
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[Reads letter] 'I don't know how to
be aware that I am aware.
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[Questioner laughs]
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I still see this 'I'-identity as real.
Please help, Mia.'
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Do we need?
Q1: No.
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M: Very good. Can I keep it?
Q1: Yes. I mean, throw it.
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M: Throw it, keep it.
I'm happy you're like this. It's good.
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Q1: You don't need to keep it.
M: Because this, [touches letter]
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I call it an auspicious reaching out
to clarify something.
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And to that extent, it's very...
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I mean, it's not a game.
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We can say it is like a game,
but it's not a cynical game.
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It's, you may say, a game or a play or
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something that needs to happen
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to the human expression of consciousness,
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when it comes to a stage where
its world is not working.
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And I don't see that as a disaster.
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I see it as opportunity
to look behind the scene.
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Q1: Yes, yes. I want to take
every opportunity to look.
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M: Okay. Now? Right now?
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Q1: Always, yeah, now.
M: Yeah. Okay.
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Do you need to look further now?
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Q1: I can do, yeah.
M: Yeah.
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M: Yeah. Good.
Q1: Yeah, yeah. [laughs]
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M: Thank you. Very good.
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And you don't need to talk
to anybody about it.
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Just you sit with that, and watch.
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And however tricky the mind can be,
you remember, it is secondary.
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That which is primary, is seeing that.
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And the mind can come in the form
of thought or moods or sensation,
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it can appear like confusion,
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it appears as identity,
but it's still only appearing.
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Can the Self appear? No.
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So it causes the appearing
of the mind play and the diversity.
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But it itself is indescribable actually.
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So at this point I would say,
sit and contemplate that.
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Yeah. That's all you have to do.
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You see, it sounds as though from what
you write, somebody might think,
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'Wow, I feel she's in real trouble.'
But for me, I think, what a opportunity,
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I got to find out from you,
we can look together.
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And it's all in you. It's all you.
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Very good.
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Would you like some tea or something?
Did you get something or are you okay?
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Q1: I think I have some food waiting for me.
M: Go and eat the food now, it's cold.
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That's the only food
that's worth eating cold right now.
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Q1: It's...
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M: Thank you. Wonderful, darling.
Thank you, thank you, thank you,
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Q1: Thank you so much.
M: Yes. See you in a bit.
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Okay. Okay.
Q1: Thank you.
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M: If you are earnest, then you must do.
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You can walk the same road.
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It's fresh every time.