Good morning, everyone.

Let’s find out where we’re located.

We must be inside this body, no? Well, let’s see.

Let’s be on holiday for a moment. Blown wide open. Pure being.

Prior to the arising of the so-called separate self, the ego self, the rising I, just being here.

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Without the rising I, which is the separating factor, that which separates, that which divides, because it creates a myself here that is separate or other than what it perceives. So if I feel myself to be here, as a separate I, I perceive everything else as separate from myself. That’s pretty clear, I think, right?

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But now, just for a moment, not rising as that separate I, just being, pure being.

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The actual lived experience is infinitely vast. It doesn’t end at the skin. It doesn’t end anywhere.

As far as the eye can see, for example, this pure being permeates all of that And all of that is permeated by this pure being, isn’t it, what I am?

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If you’re sitting outside now, you can see the trees, you can see the mountains farther away, the clouds in the sky maybe, or the sun.

All of those are equally permeated with being. The same being that I am.

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When for a moment I don’t rise as the separate I, the dividing factor, the separating factor, that which separates itself from everything else, for a moment I don’t rise as that, like now.

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What is separate from anything?

And where am I located?

Inside the body, separated from everything or

infinitely vast being with no center, no specific spot located.

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And so if I say that I am here and I, what I am, ends at the skin line and after which the world begins, clearly there’s a separative movement going on, isn’t there?

The rising I.

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Now, functioning in the world, that’s fine, no problem, of course.

You know, if a car is coming to run you over, it’s good to know that you’re separate from the car in that way, of course, practical. But in your own experience, in reality of what actually is happening, without that movement of the rising I for a moment, where am I located?

Am I here and then ending at the skin line?

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I suggest no. But see for yourself.

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So for a moment, just open, knowing, pure being. No inside or outside.

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It’s good to be with you. I’ll be back again tomorrow. Peace.

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Good morning, everyone.

Pure knowing being.

No name, no form.

No attributes whatsoever.

No nationality.

No language.

No gender.

No political, social, religious, spiritual affiliation.

No opinion, preferences, judgment.

No past, no future.

No good me, no bad me.

No reminiscence, no nostalgia.

No past regret, guilt, remorse.

No future fear, anxiety, apprehension, concern.

No birth, no death.

No learning.

No philosophy.

No erudition.

No lack of those.

No higher or lower, superior, inferior.

No guru, no devotee.

No leader, no follower.

In the absence of the rising I, what am I?

None of those attributes apply to me.

The true silence isn't the absence of noise or sounds.

True silence is the absence of the rising I.

For a moment, just be.

It's good to be with you. I'll be back again tomorrow. Peace.

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Good morning everyone.

I was chatting with Kat a little bit earlier today and she suggested that I address this question of effort a little bit because she’s been noticing rightfully that people feel that they need to try to be on Holiday or put in effort or practice or something like that. It’s very natural. And I do often speak about that on the intensives and everywhere, really, including these Holidays.

Let’s look at it some more.

Ultimately, a Holiday, your own essential being, is nothing to do with effort. It’s just what you are. Of course. So it doesn’t take any effort to be what you are.

So when I say have a Holiday, it’s a seed I plant in your mind that sprouts by itself.

It’s not an admonition to practice something or anything like that. This is also why I don’t say take a Holiday.

What I mostly say is when a Holiday happens, know that you are.

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Holidays happen by themselves. Whether we think we’re doing them or not, we’re not. They happen by themselves. I’ve spoken about this many times. Everything happens by itself. So whether we think we’re intentionally having a holiday, even that intention sprouts spontaneously. There’s no doer in that.

So there’s no effort in that way.

So why do people feel that they have to make an effort to be on Holiday? And that’s a genuine question.

Clearly, the reason that idea or concern would be there is because the mind that has that question has the idea that it’s not there yet, that there’s something more to do.

And so what is that? Obviously that’s the rising I, ego, mind that has an idea. The idea being I’m not there yet. I’m supposed to be on holiday all the time. Why aren’t I? Maybe I’m not fully awakened or fully enlightened yet or, any number of concepts and questions that arise create the movement of that same mind to want to do something to have more holidays. And so what to do?

There’s really nothing to do. I can’t say don’t put in any effort or don’t try to have more Holidays or anything like that because then again there will be a concept in the mind that’s now trying to not have any effort or Holidays.

So what I say is that I put the seed Holiday, Holiday, Holiday that sprouts by itself in your mind.

And so I say, when a Holiday happens, notice some things.

What do you notice?

Well, clearly, a Holiday is free of the rising I, which is the movement of ego, of time, of past, future, story, history, personal history, all of that.

What else do you notice?

You notice that this pure eternal being, which is timeless, is always here. It’s always what I am. Whether I notice it or not, it is.

So you notice that also on a holiday.

And what else do you notice on a holiday? That inherent contentment and peace and happiness is already here as your nature, so you notice that also.

And what else do you notice on a holiday?

That seeking is over because the one who is seeking, the rising I, is no longer here. And when the rising I, the seeker goes, like now, for a moment, the seeking goes as well.

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Like now for a moment, when the one who thinks there’s something more to attain, which is again the rising I that has a lot of concepts about freedom and enlightenment, when that rising I that thinks there’s something more to attain is gone

like right now,

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the feeling or idea that there’s something more to attain is also gone with it. And contentment is here.

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And also, when the rising I that has the idea that more effort is required to reach a holiday, when that I is not here, like now for a moment,

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the idea of effort is also not here.

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I often say a Holiday reveals things. A Holiday is a Holiday, it’s a break from the mind games in that whole world of mind, that phantom world of mind. It’s a break from that. And it’s knowing that I am. And so I say when a Holiday happens, know that you are. And in that things are revealed like some of the things I just said.

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It’s revealed that you’re already home.

It’s revealed that no effort is required to be home, because you are there.

It’s revealed that a Holiday is a very different way of being, not the contracted, limited, bound self way of being, but blown wide open, free.

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And in that we find this way of being to be preferable. We find peace and contentment here, ease of being,

And so, instead of requiring effort to try to get to this, we just naturally want this without any effort.

The more we see this way of being, the more we realize it’s a good way of being, Better than running around in the carousels of mind. Then naturally we want to live this way. And so no effort is needed.

It becomes our natural condition more and more.

It becomes our default condition more and more.

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And no effort is required for that. It’s just falling in love with being.

So what to do? You can’t force that to happen either. That’s another thing that would be an effort. So we don’t force anything here. So if you notice that there is the idea that I need to make more effort, or I need to practice Holidays, or I need to do Holidays more, notice something.

Who has that thought? What about you has that thought? The rising I, obviously.

And like with everything else I share, it’s just to see that, that’s all, just to notice. Oh, oh yeah. If there is the concept that I need to try harder or have more Holidays or do something, that has to be only the rising I.

No problem. Jump off. That’s all.

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And so again, it can’t be forced. It will appear like effort is being made until it’s no longer needed.

Nisargadatta says, “when effort is required, effort will appear. When effortlessness is required, effortlessness will appear.”

There’s no doer in either of those.

So just in summary, this is nothing to try to attain effortlessness here. “Oh no, now I’m thinking I have to have a holiday. That’s effort, I’m doing something wrong.”

No, it’s not about that. Again, that would be the rising I.

What is the way it works is, as I say, when a holiday happens, recognize the value of what that is.

Recognize it’s the end of all of your seeking and the end of you running around in those carousels. It’s home.

And the more you recognize that, the more naturally, of course, what will you want? Of course.

And then no effort is required for that.

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And in the meantime, I say, yes, Holiday, Holiday, Holiday, Holiday. It’s just a seed, a seed, a seed. It’s planted in the mind and it sprouts by itself. It’s not an admonition to practice or anything like that. It’s a seed I put, Holiday, Holiday, Holiday, and it will sprout by itself. And when it does sprout by itself, recognize what it is.

Freedom.

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It’s good to be with you. I’ll be back again tomorrow. Peace.

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Good morning, everyone.

I was talking to a friend today at the Cafe, Da Mantra Cafe, and I was speaking a little bit to her about the great J. Krishnamurti’s saying, “freedom from the known.”

That’s actually not how the conversation started, but I brought that book title up.

Freedom from the known. This is a very huge thing, so let’s look into it a little bit.

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Ego, or the rising I, needs something to maintain its existence. It can be, well, many things. Reminiscence of the past. There’s the I there who reminisces about the past. It could be fear or trepidation about the future.

It could be regret. It could be feeling of achievement, accomplishment. It could be a feeling of failure. I have failed. I have succeeded. I have regret.

All of these multiple different additions to the sense of I that gives it a reified existence, apparently.

All of those things are the known. By the known it just means anything that is known to me, pure being, is the known.

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One thing she was speaking about today was the concept that I am as I am now because of something from my past life. Because I was so in my past life that explains how I am now. And I just simply said, “well, maybe that’s true, but do I actually know that that’s true? I don’t. I don’t know.”

It’s an idea. That, ah, yes, now is explained easily because it must have been that has something to do with my past life. That explains now, somehow.

Well, right there is a feeling of the known, isn’t it?

Now there’s some security there. “Ah, now I know. Now I know.” I just said, “I don’t know why anything is. Maybe that’s true, but I don’t know.” Why do I need to have that knowledge? That was a rhetorical question, because really the answer is, I need

that for a sense of security, like now I know something. But what about just not knowing anything like that, why anything is the way it is now?

And simply admitting what you actually do know, undeniably, which is only that what is, is with no explanation or cause or reason.

That’s freedom from the known.

Well, when I shared that with her, she had a great response, which was,”wow, what a relief!”

I totally agree. What is it that needs to know that? It’s very clear, I think, isn’t it?

When I, pure being, rise as the self, then I need something to maintain my existence as a separate self. And as I said a few minutes ago, there are many different ways to maintain myself as a separate I. But in this regard, one way is to know why I am the way I am now, because of my past life.

So the desire for the known in this regard is the desire for a sense of security to maintain my existence as ego.

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But when it’s really recognized that, okay, maybe that’s true, but do I actually know? No, I don’t. In fact, what do I actually know?

Nothing, other than what is, is.

When that is reconciled, then the need for security of the known is gone and, simultaneously, the one who needs the security of the known is gone as well, because ego and the need for security are one thing, they’re not two.

When the rising I arises as the need for security of the known, that’s called ego, and when No longer the need for security is there, no longer the ego that needs the security is there as well.

And what’s left? Myself. Free. Free from the known. Free from the need to know.

Free from the one who needs to know.

The one who needs to know is the phantom I, the rising I, the ego that needs something to maintain its existence, something. It needs something. Regret, guilt, remorse, reminiscence, projection, whatever, a million things. It needs something.

With nothing, its existence is over.

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So let’s just be now for a moment, free from the known, free from the need to know, free from the one who needs to know. Just be.

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Can you just be without that false sense of security of the known? You can, so it’s a rhetorical question, but can you?

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What a relief.

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It’s good to be with you. I’ll be back again tomorrow. Peace.

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Good morning, everyone.

Let’s be on holiday for a moment. You know what that is, right? Pure being, that’s all. Pure being, no name or form. No color or texture. No word or description. Nothing.

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All appearances can be traced back to this. This is the Source. I am the Source.

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Hiding in open view, is this, what I am. Always here. Always the most obvious thing. Always. Whenever I look.

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So, very simple. Just come to this. Just be this. Attend to yourself.

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If you don’t acquiesce to the incessant demands of the mind for attention, and instead attend to yourself, then you’re already home.

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You never leave your home.

The Prodigal Son is simply a myth. It’s an illusion. You’re not the Prodigal Son.

The Prodigal Son is the Phantom I. The belief that it’s lost its home and that it must traverse The Universes to get back to it and seek endlessly.

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But the prodigal son is not real. It’s a phantom. What is real? Sentient, Alive, Life is you, Being. Now.

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All spiritual and philosophical questions are ended, they’re not answered, they’re ended in this, what I am.

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Psychological suffering is not fixed, but it’s ended. In this what I am.

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Seeking is not satisfied because something has been attained. Seeking is ended in this what I am.

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The separating, divisive, judging, comparing, self is not soothed. It is ended in this, what I am.

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To be free, once you are ready and once it’s become clear, is very simple, of course.

The way to be free is to be free.

Like now.

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What more is there to say? Except, it’s good to be with you. I’ll be back again tomorrow. Peace.

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Good morning, everyone.

Yeah, so yesterday we looked a bit into the phantom I, what that actually is. When thoughts arise, they’re always referring to the body. That’s clearly true because thoughts can only refer to their own experience, which is what the body is.

So thoughts of this body can’t be referring to someone else’s body because that’s not where the experience is.

So when thoughts arise and then I, pure knowing being, rise as those thoughts as being what I am, in other words, pure knowing being is not a thought. It doesn’t refer to a body.

It has nothing. It’s just pure knowing being.

But when I, pure knowing being, arise in conjunction with those thoughts, with the feeling that this is what I am, these thoughts, then the self or ego is born.

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And that happens countless times every day.

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But when we have a holiday, we go right back to the root, pure being, knowing, which is prior to the rising I, the phantom I.

And we just remain as that. And we’re home.

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Another thing to do is to see when these thoughts rise, they’re referring to a body, but there’s actually not an I in there. I, pure being, knowing, mistake myself to be that for a moment. But there is no actual I in those thoughts. There are only thoughts referring to something, and then the case of mistaken identity happens. I go into a coma. I become hypnotized to believe that that is what I am, but there actually is no I in there.

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The movement toward freedom is just more and more the movement of being blown wide open. Knowing myself as the objectless pure being that doesn’t refer to anything but itself.

I - I

It doesn’t need a name, or a form, or a time, or history, or preferences, or beliefs, or opinions, or identifications, or descriptions, or name, color, nothing like that.

Needs nothing other than itself.

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I am self-luminous. I am the knowing that knows myself, pure subject with no object, nothing other than myself, only myself.

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And so that’s what a Holiday is, is to be that. The more you are this, the more you recognize the phantom I arising. That’s all.

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And when the phantom I arises, just ask, is this what I am? Or is this just a movement of thoughts?

Is that really what I am? Or that which is at the base of all of it, prior to it, out of which that thought rises.

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And just be that. That’s all. Nothing more.

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It’s good to be with you. I’ll be back again tomorrow. Peace.

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Good morning, everyone.

My voice is a bit craggy today, I’ve had a bad cold for the last few days, but I wanted to be with you, so here I am.

What is this so-called self or ego that we are looking into or trying to transcend or finding out if it exists, all of these things, that are a big part of the inquiry work we do? When thoughts appear spontaneously, which everything does appear spontaneously, but thoughts, when they spontaneously appear, do they, in and of themselves, indicate a self or an ego?

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You might notice that sometimes when you’re on holiday or just walking around, there might be some thoughts playing quietly in the background that you’re not really paying any attention to and you maybe hardly even notice.

So would those thoughts be considered the self or just some little noises in the background?

When thoughts are there and there is the I attached to it, meaning these thoughts refer to me, this body with this name, then you can say that’s what self or ego is.

I, pure being, knowing that is prior to any movement, including the movement of thoughts, am always free, always the subject also.

When an object appears, like thoughts for example, and then I, pure being, associate myself with those thoughts, with the feeling or belief that that’s what I am in this moment, these thoughts refer to me, then self is born or ego is born.

But what those thoughts are always referring to only is this body, not to pure being, what I am essentially. So thoughts being always in reference to this body, when I mistake myself to be that exclusively, I mistake myself to be exclusively this body as well.

So the I is claimed to be this body exclusively. And that’s a very limited way of knowing myself, of course. And that comes and goes. And it’s not to be denied, but it’s a very limited, ephemeral, temporal appearance of what I actually am.

Now this also includes the thought that I am not getting this, or I am not enlightened, or, why don’t I know my true nature? Or, I’m in ignorance in one way or another. That thought is self-looping. I am in ignorance, or I don’t know myself, or I am not enlightened, or whatever that might be. That’s just the thought looping.

And then when I, which is pure being, pure subject, never ignorant, falsely cling to that thought as myself, then there’s the mistaken belief that I am in ignorance, or that I’m not getting this message, or I’m not there yet.

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So now for a moment, let’s just leave all of that and just be here together, blown wide open. Pure being knowing, subject knowing myself, no object other than myself.

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This what I am is never in ignorance, never unawake, never limited, never unliberated or unfree or anything. Never. Always and eternally free.

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Now out of this arises this phantom I -

you can say the real I, I guess, pure subject, knowing that I am pure being -

out of this arises the phantom I that claims itself to be I.

And it has a name and a form and a history and ignorance and unenlightenment and whatever else.

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But whenever you stop for a moment, like now, just know yourself as the subject, pure I, pure being. There’s no ignorance, there’s no unawakening, no unenlightenment, there’s nothing. There’s only pure being.

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There’s no enlightenment or liberation either, for that matter. There just simply is what is. Myself.

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And so, in inquiry, which is very helpful, as soon as the thoughts appear and the phantom self appears, look quickly and see what is the I there. Is there actually an I there on those thoughts? A separate I? Look for it.

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If you do that, then immediately the thoughts will stop and you’ll be back out into the sun.

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The phantom I can’t withstand scrutiny. As soon as it’s looked for, it’s gone.

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Even if there are no thoughts like now for a moment, if you look for an I, if you look for an I separate I, you know, like not the pure being knowing the self, the real infinite being, but if you look for a separate I like now, even with no thoughts, where is it?

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Even if you notice sensations of the body or in the head behind the eyes or something and say, well, there’s an I there. Is it really? Look again.

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These sensations are not I. They don’t say I. They’re just some sensations known, within pure being.

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So really, just look. Find this I. If it’s here, you’ll find it.

And again, when you look for this I, it vanishes immediately. The phantom I can’t withstand scrutiny.

It goes immediately upon being scrutinized.

And what’s left is the eternal pure being knowing what I am. Always.

Always awake.

Always free.

Never in ignorance.

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It’s good to be with you. I’ll be back again tomorrow. Peace.

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Good morning, everyone.

Have a holiday.

Let’s just rest now, pure being knowing.

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Not knowing anything particular. Just knowing, consciously knowing, pure being.

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Any thoughts come, no problem. But for a moment, on a holiday there are no thoughts. And so what is here on a holiday with no thoughts is open, Knowing, no flavor, no color, no texture, no personal self, no past, no time at all.

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Simply eternal now, which is synonymous with what I am, pure knowing and being. And so just be that. And you’re already home.

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There’s nothing really more to attain.

It can be for almost everyone that this has to be lived more and more and more. So that its own profound nature is seen more and more clearly and in that it naturally becomes more desirable to be this way.

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Because conversely to be continuously infatuated with the movements of the mind and the body and the world cause tumult and all kinds of anxiety, suffering, Fear, worry, Hope, projection, Imagination.

Everything but your own essential, timeless, pure being that has nothing to it, but still is completely alive.

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Pure life, real life and true life, the real sentience is what I am at essence.

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The real sentience is not in the mind and the movement of mind and the fears of the mind and the projections and hopes and reminiscences. The real sentience is not in the memory of the great old days or the good old days or the terrible old days.

The only real sentience is life now myself, free of egoic movements, projection, like all of those things.

And so I say for a moment, be that.

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See the beauty, see the value. Fall in love with being.

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And you will. Really, unavoidable. The more you are that, the more you are that.

And life carries on. Nothing’s denied.

Work, family, relationships, entertainment, everything is all included. Nothing wrong. But now we have come to know what I say is the natural human condition of health. It’s not the normal human condition, but I say the natural human condition, prior to the movement of all of the unhealthy, egoic appearances is the natural human condition at the root of it all, pure being, knowing.

So now for a moment, enjoy.

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Good to be with you. I’ll be back again tomorrow. Peace.

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Good morning, everyone.

I wanted to mention before we meet on a holiday, I recommend not reading the text. I put the transcriptions there because I know for some people reading is preferable or important, but my recommendation is to not read the texts because when I speak something, it opens your own recognition or vision and you should just be with that.

Otherwise, you’re reading the text and looking ahead to the next line, maybe reading forward, and it just keeps you engaged with the mind and not in the actual Holiday. So, of course, everyone do what you like, but I would recommend forget that text unless there’s a real reason that you need to have that text there.

So like now.

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Just be here openly knowing.

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No words are needed for this. The next word is not important at all. Just pure being, consciously aware, knowingly. No name or form or history or any of that stuff.

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That’s what’s important.

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Everyone wants to be happy, everyone wants to be content, at ease, mentally and emotionally healthy.

Of course, completely natural to want that. But where is that found? We go through our life using different strategies or modalities of trying to come to peace, happiness, contentment, freedom, all of those things.

So, I say we’re looking for happiness in all the wrong places.

For example, what I call the carousels of mind. Well, one place we look for happiness is on the psychological carousel. We go into the story of ourself. We find the problems of our past. We look into it to see why am I unhappy now? What’s causing the mess I’m in now psychologically? And we find characters to blame. We find ourselves to blame. We find circumstances to blame. Experiences to blame.

We go around and around and around in this carousel of psychology with the hope and intention that we’ll come to a place where everything is perfectly in order in there and we can come to rest and be happy.

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And of course, while the psychological model has certainly benefit, for sure, for many if not most people, it’s limited in that it can never arrive at a place of actual freedom, free from psychology. You’re never gonna be free from psychology by reifying the psychology.

So the more we go into the psychology, the more we convince ourselves that that psychology is real and formidable and solid. And so we go around and around in a circle, a carousel, looping inside the psychology to come into to some semblance of sanity, mental and emotional health. And yes, some semblance of mental and emotional health can be achieved that way. But freedom can never be achieved that way.

Because the foe, so-called, that we hope to be free of is only solidified in that way. That’s the ego, self, psychology.

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Another carousel many people get on is the philosophical carousel to understand life, understand the mechanisms of enlightenment, or to understand the meaning of why I’m here and where I came from and all of that. And the hope there, of course, ultimately is for the same, is to come to happiness, contentment, peace, and also a level of security, “now I know. Now I know why I’m here. Now I know how the world works. Now I understand the mechanism of enlightenment”. or whatever it might be. So in this sense, this carousel of seeking is to come to some semblance of security with the hope that that semblance of security will give me peace and rest and contentment and happiness. And of course, that’s also extremely limited and never happens. What you’re again doing is reifying the ego, the one that knows and needs to know.

Real security is not in the known like some kind of collected data or concept. Real security actually is in the unknown because when the one who needs to know is gone, what is here is the true peace and security.

So the philosophical carousel, I feel, may be interesting for the mind to chew on and ruminate over, but certainly never gonna bring freedom.

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And then the third carousel which is very alluring and beautiful and romantic and exciting is the spiritual carousel of mind, because that’s what it is.

Reading all the spiritual books, hoping for or having mystical experiences, visiting the teachers and the gurus, sitting on the meditation cushion, having the pictures of the gurus, having the incense and the candles, having the hopes of uniting with the divine, having the hope of transcendental states of consciousness, which can happen.

This spiritual carousel, well, it’s very alluring, isn’t it? I loved my spiritual path, it was great, you know. I had a good time, seven years, traveling all over the world, living with gurus and masters in India, meditating, all of it. Having countless mystical transcendental experiences, it was great. But it didn’t answer my question, which was, “what is liberation?” So at some point I had to give all of that up.

And so when I was ready, then a shift happened, you know.

So that’s the spiritual carousel of mind which also never leads to freedom. How can It? How can the carousels of mind which are looping, supporting, and reifying the separate sense of self ever lead to that which is prior to the separate sense of self? That out from which the separate sense of self appears, how can it lead to that by supporting and reifying it?

It can’t.

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So then what to do? Well, it’s very simple.

Those three carousels spinning around and around, not leading you to freedom, what to do?

Jump.

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Jump off all three of them, like now.

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And immediately you are already home, pure being, knowing, with no object, no psychology, no philosophy, no spirituality. No word to really say, even though I say pure being, knowing, those words don’t mean anything.

To be that doesn’t need any words at all, so jump. And just be.

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And so, what do you want?

And that’s not a challenge, it’s just to see for oneself, what do I want? If I want to get into the psychology, then that’s what I’ll do. No problem. That’s all fine, you know. That’s what I’ll do. I’ll get into the psychology and I’ll keep trying to correct myself and fix things and find the reasons for everything.

Okay, and for most people that’s enough. And maybe even helpful.

Or what do I want? Maybe I like my mind and want to ruminate and understand and read all the philosophy and collect a bunch of information and think I’m solving the meaning of life or something. And no judgment. That’s fine also. If that’s what one is into, great. Enjoy that.

Or what do I want? Maybe I love the romance of the spiritual path, you know? Maybe I still hope, you know, the spiritual path is also replete with hope, future, promise, projection. I’m going to become enlightened in the future. I’m going to merge with the divine in the future. You know, I’m going to be pure in the future. Maybe I want that hope still. Maybe I want all the incense and candles. I like incense myself, so it’s fine.

But you know what I mean, metaphorically.

Maybe I like reading all the books and sitting on the meditation cushion and going to see the teachers and watching the videos endlessly, endlessly, endlessly.

Okay, great. No problem. That’s what I want. Good.

But what if I want freedom?

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And I say, it’s not found in any of those carousels. It’s only found now in your own being, now. Of course. All of those carousels are mind. Psychological mind, philosophical mind, spiritual mind.

It’s all mind.

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Freedom is found in the absence of that kind of mind.

Freedom is found in empty mind, essential mind, which is empty of all of the content and is synonymous with pure knowing being. That’s who I am.

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If you want freedom, have it. Why not?

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So don’t forget I have an Online Mini-Intensive starting on August 22nd and 23rd, two days, full immersion in pure being.

Full immersion for two days.

Fully being jumped off those carousels. It will become more of your default way of being, really genuine recognition. If you’re interested, you can check that out.

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Good to be with you. I’ll be back again tomorrow. Peace.

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Good morning, everyone.

Let’s just be together now for a moment and start your day off in recognition and abidance as pure being, which is prior to all of the movements of the body and the mind. It doesn’t disclude anything. We’re not trying to escape or transcend or avoid. Just seeing what’s here all the time and always, before or underneath the rising of everything else that comes. And in fact, that which is the source of all of that, from which that all arises.

So for a moment, without attending to anything in particular, but simply attending to your own pure being now.

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It’s important to recognize that we’re not noticing another object, something called awareness, or something called pure being, an object that we are aware of, it’s most key and most important to realize that when everything subsides for a moment, I realize that this is what I am, always.

This is I.

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This is the immovable, unchanging, ever-present, eternal I, which has been the same my whole life. I’ve most likely never noticed before. Or if I did, inadvertently, there was no recognition of what it implied or revealed.

But now we see, what does it reveal? Is that in the midst of all of the movements and changes of the temporal field of our being aspect, I am always the same.

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We find contentment here because our being itself is content. Nothing is missing or lacking now in pure being. Any discontent or something like that has to only be attached to the rising I, that which distinguishes itself from everything else, and distinguishes things from each other and finds something inadequate or wrong.

If there’s an idea that there’s something wrong or something wrong with me, it has to be the rising I.

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And again, as always, we just see this, that’s all.

Any effort to get rid of or change or judge or fix, this is also the rising I.

So none of that is required.

What is required is to recognize that which is the source of all of that,

that which is untouched by all of that,

that which is immovable, that which is already pure and clean,

that which is free and content and lacking nothing,

that which has been here my entire life,

that which is eternally here now.

And be that, that’s all that’s required.

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And so when we’re here together every morning,

and I always love coming here in my studio, sitting in my chair, putting on little incense, nice, nice,

and just sitting here openly for a moment and to see what comes.

And so as these words are coming, that’s when I hear them.

Just like you’re hearing them now, I hear them when they come. There’s no pre-thought.

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So we spend a few minutes together here in the morning to start your day, but then keep it in mind throughout the day.

No particular position or asana or stance or eyes closed or open is required at all.

At any moment during your day, take a look.

What’s still here? It’s always here. You can’t fail.

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Have another look throughout the day. Make this more and more your way of being, your way of living.

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And then it just will start happening by itself.

Well, it always happens by itself. That’s silly to say. But will happen more and more. The more it happens, the more it happens. And it becomes more and more your default way of being without any doing or effort or practice, sadhana, anything like that.

Just simply by falling more in love with this way of being, realizing that this way of being is actually self-love.

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Good to be with you. I’ll be back again tomorrow. Peace.

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