Good morning, everyone.

Let’s just be openly knowing for a moment.

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You know what that is now. Most of you, for new people, just instead of attending to anything that’s arising, thoughts or sensations, or anything else, just attend to yourself, pure being, I know that I am, being here.

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It seems often that the appearing objects are the most obvious thing. And of course, sometimes they can be. In fact, probably mostly, most of the time for most people. But really, since everything that appears, appears within this blown wide open pure being, knowing who I am, The truth of the matter is, this is the most obvious. And everything else is really peripheral to this pure knowing.

So be that now.

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And it’s really so very, very simple and so ordinary in a way as well. There’s nothing spiritual, mystical, transcendental about this pure being who I am. It’s me, it’s my essential being.

So why should it be anything extravagant? It’s very simple and very obvious.

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Because it’s so simple and so obvious and so not extraordinary as in some kind of mind-blowing experience or something like that, the idea may come because we have so many concepts about something called enlightenment or liberation that this simple obvious thing, my own being, can’t possibly be it. There must be something more.

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And according to many of the books we’ve read, it seems there is something more.

So then, we run around with those ideas in our mind never really coming to rest and being content in the peace and ease of our own timeless being.

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So it needs to be recognized, and I try to point out during intensives and everything, not only this recognition but to see the intrinsic and huge value in this very simple, obvious way of being.

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Well, for one thing, as opposed to being dragged around all over the place by the endlessly moving mind, the endlessly restless mind, mental activity, instead of being dragged around by that like a, you know, dog on a leash or something, you know.

There’s no dignity in that, is there?

So instead of that, coming to rest means really your own dignity, your own sovereignty, your own self.

And you find peace here, you know. Contentment.

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Well, for some people, this recognition is very, you know, very simple. It’s so simple that, you know, the mind that has so many ideas cannot accept that this can be the Holy Grail or something like that, you know, “this must be more than this, you know, this can’t possibly be it.” It’s understandable. So the mind like that says, “Okay, yeah, great, okay, big deal, great. What next?

What do I do now? What do I do with this?”

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What you do is start more and more cognizing the difference in your own experience from living freedom like this and being enslaved to the ever moving mind.

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What happens is the more you live this way of being, the more profound is your understanding and recognition of what it is. At first, again, it might seem too simple, too ordinary to have any real value or anything, but the more you live this stark difference of way of being, the more you realize how profound this is.

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And also in case the idea is there that now that I know this freedom and I’m just being, does it mean I’m not going to do anything? Well, your life is just the play of Leela, the play of life. Whatever is going to happen is going to happen. You will do many things, most likely. Maybe you’ll sit in a cave, but that’s very unlikely. If the motivation comes up to do something or the interest comes up to do something or the desire comes up to do something, that’s what will happen. That’s not in any way in contradiction to being free, living freedom.

Living freedom is being content and then whatever appears to do, that’s what will happen.

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Life is now, life is ever-present, alive, cognizing this moment now.

Thoughts are dead, they are not sentient. Sentience is you, your pure being, life, now.

Thoughts are not sentience. Thoughts are simply robotic, mechanical replaying of experiences. There’s no life there.

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And yet, we live a vast majority of our life experience infatuated with that movement.

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No judgment. That’s just the human condition, you know. We have to see it for ourselves in our own being, in our own experience, and, you know, be honest, let’s say, be honest, you know.

But not to judge oneself or to think one is doing something wrong or not being enlightened or anything like that at all. Just by using discrimination to see the vast difference in experience between the two and gently begin living more and more as 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.

What is freedom? What is the recognition of your own freedom or, you know, essential being? Is it an understanding? Is it an idea or a concept? Is the mind needed at all to know this? The discursive mind, the analytical mind, the intellect, is then any of that needed to know yourself as pure being?

Let’s have a holiday blown wide open, pure knowing being.

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If you know yourself as this, if you recognize the pure being, is this to be found anywhere in a book, anywhere, even the best book?

Is it to be found there, in some words?

How can it be?

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No words can touch this at all. None.

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I don’t want the value of what I’m sharing to have anything to do with the words that I use, but I want the value to be recognized in between the words.

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I’ve worked with many hundreds of people over the years, and I see what people write often online. And I see that the philosophic mind is still trying to understand something quite often.

Somehow the idea is there that if I get the proper understanding or put it all together like a puzzle piece in my mind, then that will be the goal of what I’m looking for.

Ramana Maharshi was asked, there was an amazing philosopher that saw Ramana in the early days. Kāvyakaṇṭha Muni, I think his name was, he had a few different names. He was a towering figure of literature and philosophy and everything. He came to Ramana as a devotee of Ramana.

And Ramana’s, of course, teaching is so simple. And his mind was so in love with itself that he couldn’t really ultimately recognize even. He probably felt he understood what Ramana was saying, but that has no bearing on freedom whatsoever.

And he was a towering figure, an amazing poet, like since he was a kid, he was considered like a prodigy. And then when he finally died, Ramana was asked, “did he attain liberation before he died?” Ramana said, “how could he? He was too infatuated with his mind.”

I see a lot of that actually myself. I’m not judging anything, that’s just the way it is.

Let’s be on holiday, see if any philosophy or concept has anything at all to do with freedom.

Look now, look, be nothing. Reduce down to the most common lowest denominator of yourself.

What words?

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Well, mind doesn’t like this one bit, because then it’s out of work, you know. It’s out of business. Mind, by this I mean ego, mind, analytical intellect, discursive mind. It’s out of a job. It’s fired.

And so it revolts.

You have to see for yourself, you know. For the more philosophical, conceptual-minded people, everybody’s different. Everything’s fine.

Really, see for yourself. See if that mind is trying to impose something, understanding or comparison or concept or philosophy. Just see it, that’s all.

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To really just be free of that is not a small thing because it leaves you hanging nowhere, free-falling, with nothing mental or conceptual to claim some kind of false security. “Oh, now I know.” Like that.

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It doesn’t take anything just to be, except, well, not that you choose this, but the willingness to be empty handed completely and utterly.

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What would you be without that false support of conceptual, analytical, discursive, intellectual mind? What would you be?

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Well, nothing special is one thing that comes to mind. Nothing special.

A lot of our intellectualizing and philosophizing is with a bit of an insidious belief that it makes me something to have this great philosophy or understanding or, you know.

Not even in a grandiose way, but just even in a very subtle way, just I have, now I have something that I understand and that makes me, and that keeps me alive as a separate self.

And also the idea that more and more understanding is going to get me somewhere is an endless, endless, unnavigable sea leading nowhere.

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To come out in the sun and be nothing, oh, it’s rare.

There’s no judgment.

There’s nothing to judge. There is discrimination to see in your own experience, in your own being what is still being depended upon.

Often it’s the mind, you know, mostly. Just to see that, that’s all. And then have a holiday from that.

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A holiday is exactly what it suggests. Having a holiday. A break. Have a break.

Have a holiday from all of that for a moment. And just be.

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If you want to be free, you have to be willing to be fired or preferably resign that control.

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Then you know, not with knowledge, not with concept or philosophy, you know in the real meaning of the word, knowing.

Which is the same as being.

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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.

Just for a moment, let’s be blown wide open. With no rising eye. Just pure being. No past, no future. None of the movements of the personal self.

Just for a moment, make it easy.

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It’s natural to have some ideas that when you recognize this no thing and if you recognize inherent in that is peace and silence and all of that, to have the idea that maybe that should always be the case and that there should not be any movements of the body-mind. But clearly that’s not true in your own experience.

The body is the experiencing entity. It’s that which experiences. If it was only intended to experience pleasant things, then that’s all it would experience. But clearly that’s not all it was intended to experience.

Anything and everything will happen to the body. Pains, contractions, etcetera. The body itself is a contraction itself. Of course, it’s a limitation.

And so there are all kinds of things happening. And sometimes there are very extreme things happening in the body, some illnesses or pains that are extreme. It can be things like trigeminal disease, which I know is unbearably painful. And there can be any number of other pains and illnesses and contractions, and cancers

And so when an extreme acute pain is happening in the body, then to expect to experience or feel the peace and stillness of your essential being is not realistic, is it?

When not much is happening and you’re sitting around on holiday, nice, nice, you know. Not much happening in the mind, not much happening in the body. Then it’s very easy to recognize that peace and stillness and to get the idea that a holiday means that that’s going to happen always.

And that’s not true.

A holiday just simply means that I know that I am. And if there’s a toothache, there’s a toothache and I know that I am. And there won’t be the experience of peace and silence, there will be the experience of a toothache.

But the knowing that I am will still be the same.

Ramana Maharshi died of cancer. He had a tumor in his arm and it was very painful. And it has been written that there were nights where he would be heard in his room where he slept moaning and crying out in pain. That’s Ramana Maharshi. And according to him, according to the ideas of that work, he knows he’s not the body.

And yet the body still cried out in pain. He cried out in pain.

A holiday is not a panacea to feel good in every moment.

It certainly is a very good way to alleviate a lot, or all of the psychological suffering we endure because of just the bad habit of believing that story and going into it, into it, into it, into it, into it. So now we have an alternative and we can come out into the sun instead of going into that story and being infatuated with that. And so psychological suffering can be greatly alleviated or completely.

The suffering of past traumas as well can be greatly alleviated. Because all of that is, the story aspect of all of that is temporal and evanescent. It just comes and goes in the mind.

The somatic aspects of that are something different, of course, you know. Those are in the body and those are slower to rise and slower to subside as well.

Thoughts can stop, like now.

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But sensations in the body and emotions are much slower. And so the somatic aspects of trauma, for example, when they arise, they may last for a while. But they’re given fuel, tremendous amount of fuel, to keep themselves going because of the story attached to it. The mind going into it and into it and into it again and again, going over it. That fuels the sensorial, somatic aspect of the trauma.

When you take your foot off the gas pedal, the fuel to that stops, and that means coming out into the sun a holiday, take your foot off the gas pedal, and then that somatic aspect has time to slow down, soften.

But there are other things too, you know, extreme disease that cause acute pain that really in and of themselves have nothing to do with the psychology.

What to do about those?

Really nothing you can do about it. I mean, yes, you can take practical medical steps to help, of course, and one should do that.

But even in extreme pain, one can still know that they are, but not with the hope it’s going to alleviate the pain or anything like that.

And just general contractions of the body that happen. There’s some challenge in life or whatever, an argument, whatever it might be, and then the body tenses up.

That kind of thing can be greatly helped with holidays. In the midst of a contracted sensation of the body where you feel tense or anxiety or something, you know, get real for a moment. Come into the sun of pure being and really just be there.

And I know it’s not spiritually correct to say, but in a way, ignore those contractions in favor of attending to pure being your own, most intimate self.

And then in that there is no rising I here, no ego here trying to get rid of that contraction, thinking there’s something wrong. In the moment of a holiday the rising I that has those ideas is not here. Then there’s pure being and maybe some contraction in the body.

But resting more and more as pure being can certainly loosen that, for sure.

But if you have a serious illness, cancer or trigeminal or some other serious medical things that are extremely painful, well, you know, it’s not nice, but that’s what is. And you may be moaning and shouting in pain, of course. Likely I would as well.

But now, hopefully nothing too extreme is going on for you, so let’s have a holiday.

And let’s be with this moment now without referring to the body at all.

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Just unborn being with no rising eye here for a moment.

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That’s really all I wanted to say about that particular topic.

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

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Good morning, everyone.

Without attending to anything in particular, thoughts or emotions or the body, sensations, sensory objects, but instead attending only to pure being itself, subjective consciousness, you realize and recognize that’s not an object separate from yourself, but that’s what you are.

You are this pure being knowing.

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Out of this pure being knowing arises the phantom ‘I’

associated with the thoughts that it has, all of which are essentially about itself, this phantom ‘I’.

‘I’ is always the root of those thoughts in one way or another.

When we’re not attending to that phantom and all of its associated colors and flavors and movements and thoughts, but instead attending to ourself, we come to know ourselves as instead of the phantom I, we come to know ourselves as the unbound space of pure being.

Like now.

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Now you don’t become this, you realize that this is what I am in essence. And you can see clearly that everything that rises out of this in the mind is the phantom I.

It doesn’t actually exist as a thing, or as anything substantial, or as anything permanent. It’s an evanescent bubbling rising out of the unbound space of pure being, which is what you are.

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So much of the movement of thought is completely random, mechanical, rote, repetitive, unnecessary, has no purpose other than keeping the phantom I alive, so to speak.

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So we just see how habitually infatuated with that movement we are. No fault, of course. It’s the human condition, isn’t it?

But we see there’s another way of being, isn’t there?

Until we come to recognize this other way of being, which is what a holiday reveals, then there is no alternative. But once we have come to recognize what a holiday reveals, now there’s an alternative. And so what do we want?

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Abiding as the unbound space of pure being is freedom.

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And the more we abide thus, the more we see the alternative is really, well, suffering. It has to become that where you really recognize that all of that mental activity, even if it seems unimportant or random or whatever, being infatuated with that or living in that way is a very constricted, contracted way of being. And when you recognize more and more the unbound space of pure being that you are, you recognize that other way as suffering.

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And it’s unnecessary. It offers nothing of benefit, except, as I said, to maintain its own phantom existence.

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So without attending to anything of that, simply attending to your own self, the unbound space of pure being, be free.

While you’re walking around today, wherever you might be walking, be consciously aware of this unbound space of pure being as who I am.

While you’re cooking, be consciously aware of this unbound space of pure being, who I am.

Even while you’re watching a movie, be consciously aware of this unbound space of pure being, who I am.

While you’re having a shower, while you’re doing anything and everything, be aware of the unbound space of pure being, who I am.

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If you would like to join the mini-intensive coming up in August, this is what we’re going to be doing for the two full days, during the calls and even in between the calls and after the calls.

Just abiding as this really very, very clearly making it doubtless for you. So yeah, I hope to see you there.

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

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Good morning, everyone. Maybe you saw that I’ll be holding a weekend mini-intensive August 22nd and 23rd. It’ll be two days, two meetings of at least two hours or more. We’re gonna spend the two days really fully immersed in pure being, free of mind, free of personal history, free of so-called self. The condition of unborn before we take a birth of self. And then it will become very clear to you what that is and you can begin living in a new way. We won’t be talking about non-doership and bhakti so much, a little bit maybe, and other things as well, which are more included in longer intensives, but we’ll start with this really most vital recognition and make it doubtlessly clear as well.

But for today, let’s see, let’s see what emerges on a holiday. No idea.

So for a moment, just be here openly knowing.

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When we abide as this unborn being, which is what I am essentially, it’s very natural to experience peace and silence or maybe even bliss. This is good.

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It’s because that birth of self, that rising I, that movement of identification into form inherently has distinction, contraction, limitation, and, you know, the birth of all of the associated things with that self-concern and worry and projection, memory, that’s inherent in the rising I.

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But on holiday, we abide as what we are prior to the rising I, the unborn I, the I that is not limited and contracted.

It has none of those characteristics.

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And so we discover that what we are prior to that essentially pure being is peace, is contentment, is silence. And that’s what I am

as the unborn I.

And then, like a wave, I take a birth as the rising self I, and with that is the manifold manifestations of self and world. And I’m that as well, just as a wave is ocean as well.

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But until I know myself as the unborn I, then I believe I am only that wave, separate from ocean, contracted, limited, and suffering along with that movement.

But now, you know, I know something different. And the way of being is also different now.

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The locus of my being, and when I say my, I mean all of us. I’m just speaking about myself. I say my rhetorically, but it’s also you. The locus of my being is that unborn peaceful presence.

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While you’re in deep sleep, you’re only the unborn. There’s no I there at all. But there’s also no consciousness as well, so you’re not aware that you’re in deep sleep. But you do know what a beautiful, peaceful, blissful experience deep sleep is for everyone. That’s why we all love sleep.

So somewhere we know.

What would it be like to know that now in the waking state as well? Which means knowing that deep peace while simultaneously being conscious.

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That’s sometimes referred to as being asleep while awake.

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Just touch into it a little bit on holiday now, you know.

This unborn pure being, resting I, the ocean I,

which is underneath or prior to whatever, underneath the wave

I, the born I.

Just be there.

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See the beauty of this, the contentment, the peace. That’s all, just recognize that. It doesn’t need to deny anything. We’re not denying anything, we’re just turning our attention elsewhere to that which is, the root of everything, the source.

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And now while we’re together, you know, and I’m speaking and this recognition maybe is very easy for you, that’s good. That’s good, but after these 10 or 15 minutes is over, don’t forget.

You know, it’s of limited benefit to only Abide in this way during our short period of time together.

Keep it in mind throughout the day.

Keep coming back to this recognition.

If you’re sitting, if you’re walking, if you’re cooking, if you’re doing anything, moving about, turn attention back here. Then this starts to have much more and more of a benefit.

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

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Again, there is no text. Just follow along and be on your own on Holiday.

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There is no text today. I don’t want you to read, but to just be with yourself, on Holiday in the recognition of pure, subjective conscious being.

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Good morning, everyone. Kat wrote to me and said, “Sal, would you do a holiday about how to be on holiday more often? Can we be on holiday more often? If so, how?”

That’s a good question. Thanks, Kat.

Let’s be on holiday now for a moment. You know what that is. Pure subjective consciousness. I know myself. I know I.

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Not the body-mind or the feeling of consciousness in the body or the sensation of Being inside the body, but pure knowing, blown wide open, ubiquitous, I.

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So, as I always say, there’s no doership here. The idea of choice or deciding to be on holiday is, well, it’s misunderstood. There’s no one here deciding. Everything appears spontaneously, including holidays.

If, for example, you were attending to anything in particular, let’s say thoughts, because that’s usually the most compelling thing, and then after some time you notice, “well, I’m really lost in thoughts here”, or whatever. In the noticing of that itself, just the noticing of it means that you have become self-aware. And then immediately that opens up to a holiday, which is consciously knowing that I am.

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But there’s no doer in that. But let’s leave that aside, even because that doesn’t really matter.

I always say yes, holiday, holiday, holiday, holiday. I say for a moment always, but I also say do it all the time.

What a holiday is, is, well, it’s already freedom, isn’t it? So the benefit of having a holiday is that you’re living freedom in this moment.

And of course that’s what you want, no?

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Conversely, it’s going along with that movement of thoughts and believing that there’s a me in here who’s suffering these thoughts and having these thoughts. Well, that’s not so good. And so that movement of contraction itself is good because it’s the impetus and the inspiration and the tap on the shoulder that says, hey, stop, have a holiday.

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Once we start seeing the value of a holiday, then naturally we want to enjoy that more and more because it’s peace and it’s ease of being, you know, it’s less contraction. So naturally we want that more and more. So then the intention will be planted in our mind to have more holidays. And that’s good.

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Because if the intention is there, then what will happen? Holidays will sprout more and more often. And then we are living more and more in an open way as our essential being, self, source.

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And there’s no force or effort in this. It’s not like I should now have a thousand holidays a day or hold on to this holiday forever. That’s a contraction of ego right there. It’s more just natural. What do I love? I love being. And because I love being, I come out into the sun more often. Naturally, it happens.

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But there’s also, you know, which I often say is to come to know a holiday reveals something. What does it reveal? It reveals that I’m free. It reveals the aspect of myself, pure being, knowing that’s unchanging. And that has been true my entire life, although I didn’t notice. But it’s always been true. And no matter when I look, it’s always the same. And that you come to know once and for all. You don’t have to have another holiday to remind yourself of that simple fact because now you know. This aspect of myself is always here whether I’m aware of it or not. Consciously or unconsciously, knowingly or unknowingly, my essential being which is free is here.

Have a look and see.

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So whenever you look, it’s going to be the same, always. Always exactly the same.

Well, that’s good because then you know, even if you’re so-called lost in thoughts, nothing actually is wrong. Nothing bad has happened. You didn’t lose anything. You didn’t lose anything if you were so-called lost in thoughts for five minutes or an hour or whatever. That’s good. Then you can relax about that. “Oh no, I’m so unenlightened all of a sudden.”

No.

Stop. Have a look. Nothing’s changed.

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But yes, of course, being openly knowing is good. It’s good. To be consciously aware of my own essence, my own essential being is good. And so the way to have more holidays is to be more and more in love with that way of being And the way to be more and more in love with that way of being is for more and more holidays to happen naturally. And then more and more you default to being on holiday. It becomes more your default paradigm with no effort.

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

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Good morning, everyone.

Thoughts, thoughts, thoughts. Let’s look into that a little bit today.

Of course, we feel the thoughts in our head are very personal to us and they are who we are in a way. We see it that way.

And because, you know, culture and the ignorance of our so-called unenlightened intelligence has taught us that our thoughts are very sacrosanct, very important. They really mean something. And so, when thought barks, we jump.

But is there really anyone behind those thoughts? Is there a me, really, that is thinking those thoughts? Or could it be that thoughts are just really very random? Really like a moving commentary on life, basically. The experiences that happen to this body-mind. The information and impressions that come in through the senses to this body-mind. Thoughts really are just a replaying of that, a commentary, a moving commentary.

So, for example, let’s talk about thoughts that refer to sort of the work that we’re doing, which is the work of freedom or liberation or enlightenment or whatever you want to call it, spirituality. Well, when we came out of the womb, we had no ideas about this at all. There were no thoughts about it. There was no wondering or questioning.

And for me, for example, up until the age of 39, it didn’t even cross my mind at all. God, spirituality, meditation, nothing like that had any impetus or meaning in my mind, you know. I was making music, enjoying life, partying. But then when I did get on the path, I started reading a lot of books, you know, seeing teachers and all of that, and then what wasn’t there before was now here, which was a plethora of ideas about whatever, liberation or awakening or call it as you will. And then all of a sudden those ideas seem so important. They seem to have so much meaning.

So everyone that I work with has had long paths, mostly. Read every book that they were ever compelled to read. Did all the practices and everything. And so, there were many ideas in the mind.

It’s very natural. But do those thoughts actually have any meaning or value or importance?

To see what we’re sharing here together, not one of those thoughts has any importance or meaning or value. Not one. Whatever ideas we have about this thing called, again, whatever it might be, awakening or enlightenment or something…

Not one of those thoughts has anything to do with this at all.

Zero.

So for a moment, just being here blown wide open, knowing

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with none of those thoughts, And in fact, in the absence of those thoughts, what’s here is freedom.

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No thoughts are needed for that. Have a look.

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And so mind may come in because you’ve read a lot of books. You know, there’s a lot of very important things that we’ve talked about and read. Very important. It must mean something. So you’ll be sitting here being nothing and, this is very content and satisfying in itself, and yet, and mind will come in, but what about what I read on page 45 of that Ramana book or something?

Is this that? And then, if we fall for that little trick of ego to, you know, keep itself alive. “Okay, Sal that’s very nice what you’re recognizing there, nothing, but is nothing really it? Listen to me for a little while, because I have some very juicy information.”

Well, if I fall for that, then I’m right back there in that carousel. Philosophy.

Seeking.

You, in your essence, pure being, knowing, don’t need any of that at all. And yet, because of the habit of mind and the compulsion of that movement of ego to persist, to maintain its existence and dominance, even after we work together, it can be, for some time, that there is the thought, “maybe this isn’t enough, maybe there’s more. I read about it, so there must be.”

Well, when that happens, just notice, no problem, what is it?

Is it inherent in yourself, pure being, or is it the movement of mind?

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And notice one thing about that movement of mind. It’s not your thought at all. “Maybe I should be in constant bliss. Maybe I should be able to levitate”, or whatever. Those are not your thoughts. That’s the book speaking. That thought isn’t your thought. You never would have thought about anything like that if you hadn’t heard about it before.

So that doubt or that concept or whatever that may appear in the mind isn’t even yours. It’s not yours.

It’s a book.

And so you can ignore that…

in favor of contentment, peace, freedom, Being nothing, all of that, you know, the good stuff.

So just know that that movement of mind is just the attempt for mind or ego, whatever, to keep itself alive. That’s all it is.

That’s all it is. So don’t be fooled.

You source are free of any of that doubt, question, philosophy, spirituality, seeking, concepts. You’re free of all of that.

You know, be finished. Why not? Why not?

So jump off all of that racket, that carousel, which is just programmed information, not even your own. It’s not yours. So what business is it of yours?

Tend to your own business.

Being free.

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, blown wide open, not attending to anything in particular, just here, openly knowing, consciously knowing.

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Let’s look a little bit into this idea that there is, well, an ego that is somehow separate from the source or the whole,

or in some parlance that there’s a big I and a little I

or a big self and a small self.

And then, of course, when we think that way, we have to get rid of the small self or kill the ego or something like that.

But is it true? Is there a big self and a small self? A big I and a small I?

Is there an ego separate from Source?

Let’s have a look.

So for a moment, just be openly knowing,

no name, no form, no past or future, nothing, no characteristics, just pure subjective being, consciously knowing.

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You see, clearly, without these ideas of myself as a body-mind with a history and a future and preferences and all of that, without any of those concepts as some kind of identity as to who I am, without any of those, with nothing, I know that I am. I exist clearly, don’t I? With no attributes whatsoever.

I simply am.

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To exist and to know that I exist does not need any description or concept or name or form or anything like that.

My knowing that I exist is completely self-effulgent, self-illuminating. I know I.

Nothing else is needed but that. You see what I mean?

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And so I say that this is what I am, at essence, prior to any movements. This is what I am, I, or the self, you can say, the self at rest, prior to any movement, prior to any appearances.

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So then let’s see what happens. Because out from this appears, for example, a thought.

And in the moment that thought appears, there’s also the identification of myself as that thought.

It can be, I am happy.

I am angry.

I am the Self, whatever,

any thought that appears with an I attached to it is called the Rising I or the Rising Self.

And now, in the parlance we were speaking about before, that’s considered the small I, or the small self, or something like that, or ego.

But is that separate from Source?

Let’s have a look now.

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When that arises, ego or a thought with an I seemingly attached to it, that is source itself, the resting I, all that there is,

appearing as a thought,

not separate from source as we may think, But it is Source-I appearing as a thought or something like that.

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And so that thought or that so-called identification as an I thought or an ego thought is still only I, Source.

It’s never separate from Source.

When a wave appears on the surface of ocean and you look at that, you can say that’s a wave or you can say that’s ocean.

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So then when a thought appears, or the so-called movement of ego appears, is that something separate, a thought, a movement of ego, or is its source, ocean, appearing as the wave of a so-called ego or thought?

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And so this is good news because in this you see there’s nothing to get rid of or to kill. Whatever is appearing is still I.

It doesn’t matter.

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So this idea of no-self, it’s good, but what it really means is there’s no self separate from source.

There’s no small I that’s separate from source.

And so I just say myself that there’s only the Self

By which I mean there’s only source,

ocean, I, appearing as a ripple, a wave, a thought, an emotion,

anything.

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And that’s also non-duality, isn’t it? There isn’t two. There isn’t me separate here from life. There isn’t me in life. There isn’t me opposed to life. There is only me as life.

And there is only life as me.

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And just try to notice that in the course of your day. I don’t like to put any effortful looking or something. It’s just very gentle and relaxed. Just notice, you know. Notice all of these waves, ripples, waves, tsunamis, whatever. Notice them. They all come out of Source. They’re all Source appearing as a movement. They’re all Shiva appearing as Shakti. Nothing is separate from life. Nothing is separate from Source. There’s only that.

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

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