Good morning, everyone. If you have any topics you’d like me to address, just mention that in the comment below. I’ll get to it.

Bear asked, “can you do one on why we can’t choose anything? So we’ll look into that today.”

Before I get to that, I wanted to mention something also. As you know, I leave a lot of space in between after I say something. And the purpose of that is for you to recognize and abide in and as that which has been pointed to or revealed. So I often leave a lot of space. You may notice the natural tendency to wait for me to say something else or expect that I’m going to say something else. It’s very understandable and natural.

What I could recommend or suggest would be that in these spaces where I’m not speaking, to not expect or wait for me to speak again. Better just to be completely open, knowing now, with no expectation whatsoever. For all you know, I may never speak again. Who knows?

So I can tie that in a little bit with the question, can you please speak about why we can’t choose anything?

Let’s be on holiday for a moment. When we’re on holiday now, just being openly knowing notice if that tendency happens to wait for me to say something else. Don’t do anything about it just see if that occurs. So for now, for a moment, let’s be on holiday together.

Pure being, openly knowing.

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Was there a subtle movement in your mind or question or waiting for the next words to come?

If so, and again, it’s very natural and understandable, nothing wrong, but just to see this, f so, that expectation, did you create that? Did you choose that? Or that expectation just was sort of appearing somehow in your mind or in your body?

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And then if you notice that that expectation appears, maybe then the thought will come, “well, I shouldn’t do that. I should just be here.” If that thought occurs to you, did you create that or choose that thought?

Or did that thought just occur?

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If you see what I’m saying here, then it means you can see that you didn’t choose to expect the next words out of Sal’s mouth to come, and you didn’t choose to have the thought, “oh wait, I shouldn’t do that, I should just be here.”

See this movement, that’s all, just see it.

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And notice also now, while you’re openly knowing, just notice which thoughts come to the mind, if any.

Did you create those thoughts that are coming to the mind? Did you choose them?

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In any moment, an idea or an intention may appear. Let’s say, I like to use very ordinary examples. Let’s say, “oh, maybe I should watch a movie tonight, or maybe I should read a book.” So, When that happens, did you choose or create that intention, or it happens? “Oh, maybe I should watch a movie tonight. Oh no, maybe I should read a book instead.”

Why did that intention appear in the first place? Maybe you’re sitting around doing nothing, and then out of that nothing, an idea comes, :oh, maybe I’ll watch a movie.” Did you create that? Did you choose that?

But then the next thought is, “oh, I don’t feel like looking at the screen. Maybe I’ll read a book instead.” That thought appears too. Did you create that or choose that thought?

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Well, so then now the conundrum is here because now apparently it seems to be that you have to choose one or the other. And let’s just see if that’s the way it works. This is all about seeing, not understanding or figuring out, but actually seeing. At some point, if you’re going back and forth, movie, book, movie, book, at some point, one of those ideas becomes more compelling. “Yeah, I’m tired of looking at the screen. Yeah, I’m going to read a book.”

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In that moment, that idea became more dominant, more compelling.

And so out of that intention, the action to read the book happens.

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Immediately after, or subsequently after, next day or tomorrow, you might say, “well, yeah, I was trying to decide between watching a movie or reading a book, and finally I decided to read a book.” Is that true?

Did you really choose to read the book, or in that moment, the idea of reading a book was more compelling than watching a movie.

And so that’s what happened.

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The idea of agency or choosership or doership or decidership only and always comes subsequent to the actual movement itself. It’s only an idea. It’s ego claiming agency. But actually life moves with no individual doership here at all. No chooser. No decider.

Life moves as it will.

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Just for a moment, be on holiday and just see how many things are coming and going. What of them are you creating? Huh? I don’t see anything.

It’s all life moving.

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Thoughts, sensations, emotions, sensory objects coming and going. Which of those have you created?

Did you choose any of them?

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If we recognize that we didn’t choose any of them it’s more accurate to say that there’s no one here to choose or create anything. There’s only the movement of life. The one here who thinks it has the agency is called ego. But once it’s seen that there is actually no agency, there’s only the movement of life, then what also happens is,

it’s the end of ego.

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Since ego is the idea of agency, it’s not an ego that has the idea of agency, the idea of agency itself is ego.

So if the idea of agency is gone, ego is gone. And what’s left?

As I said the other day, unborn, pure being, knowing. No ego, no agency, no chooser, no doer, simply the movement of life.

Have a look.

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So if you have anything you’d like me to discuss, talk about, and very specific is also very good, you know, if you want to do a subtle nuanced or very specific idea to look into, that’s great also.

So if so, leave it in the comment and I’ll get to it. It’s good to be with you.

I’ll be back again tomorrow. Peace.

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Good morning, everyone.

Konroy asked in a comment,

“I’d like to hear more about attention,

what it is, how it works, if we need to strengthen it, etc.”

So just to mention before we get to that,

that when a question like this or any question is asked, I never know the answer.

It’s not something that’s in my mind already.

When a question like this or any question comes,

I just look to see what is being pointed to and what is revealed.

So, let’s look together.

What is attention?

Let’s be on holiday for a moment.

Pure being knowing, which is what I am in essence.

Attending in this moment to myself only pure subject.

And then in another moment,

This pure being knowing what I am in essence is attending to an object like thoughts or one of the sensory appearances, sensations in the body, whatever it may be.

It’s still the same pure being knowing that’s attending either to itself or to any

of the ephemeral temporal objects.

Have a look.

So really attention is only that in which pure being knowing is being in a way.

It’s either being itself or being part and parcel, the object of its knowing.

Attention is always here.

It’s not something to develop or strengthen.

There’s always attention.

Again, either attention to myself as pure being or attention to an object.

So it’s not a matter of strengthening attention.

In the work that we do here,

in what I recommend us on a holiday, it’s about having attention being

More attentive to itself, so to speak.

I consciously know that I am

pure conscious being knowing itself

like now.

So when I suggest for a moment don’t attend to any of the particular objects,

I mean you, pure being knowing.

Instead of attending to any objects, attend to yourself.

Know that I am.

Consciously know - I am.

That’s what a holiday is.

When attention is attending to itself subjectively instead of to another object.

And I am that.

So I am not doing attention.

Attention is another way of saying what I am, attention.

I am attention always.

So for a moment,

have attention being turned onto itself, myself.

I know that I am.

I am I

consciously, knowingly.

It’s good to be with you.

Again, if you have any topics you’d like me to cover,

leave a comment below and we’ll get to it.

Okay.

I’ll be back again tomorrow.

Peace.

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Good morning, everyone.

I just wanted to remind you,

if you have a particular topic or inquiry you’d like me to look into on

a holiday here, just mention that in the comment and I’ll try to get

to it.

So, just for a moment, don’t attend to anything in particular.

Time is only an appearance of mind,

so there’s no past, there’s no future, none of that is actual.

What’s actual is now.

So another name for pure being

knowing is now.

When you know yourself,

As pure subjective being,

which has no object other than itself or separate from itself,

then you know that which is free of the movement of personal

self or ego.

Ego is born when this pure being knowing adds something to it.

For example, I am this body.

That’s ego.

I am Sal.

That’s ego.

When something is added on to nothing, it becomes ego.

Because then there’s also an object attached to pure being,

which has no object.

Pure being is subject.

So as soon as you attach an object to it,

I am Sal,

or this is my opinion,

or these are my preferences,

or this is my past and future,

when you attach any of those objects to it,

then that’s the movement of ego.

So for a moment we just stop doing that.

Very simple.

For a moment.

Make it easy, you know.

Just be pure being without anything attached to it at all.

No object.

And in this condition or state or knowing,

this pure being,

I am unborn as a

separate self.

Attaching any object to this, as I said before, is taking a birth of self, a birth of ego.

That’s what birth is.

Birth is not the moment you come out of the womb.

Birth is every moment when an object is added to nothing.

And so for a moment, just be unborn, simply being.

Not anything in particular.

Not even really I am, to be honest with you, it’s not even that.

Pure being, knowing

is consciously aware of itself.

As what?

Well, nothing really, just pure being knowing.

And just notice that movement,

the clinging

of mind on to something.

It can be, as I said,

name or form,

or it can be,

now I know something, you know,

some piece of information or knowledge or a concept.

Oh yes, now I know I’m nothing.

Even that, you know, just notice that movement, what mind does, you know, that’s all.

Just notice what mind does.

In each of those movements of mind is a little birth of self again.

Self is coming and going,

coming and going.

But in the absence of conceptual mind and conceptual thinking,

and grasping to any object,

in the absence of that.

Satchitananda.

Being, knowing itself as peace.

That’s eternally what I am.

That is what I am always knowingly or unknowingly,

consciously or unconsciously, overlooked or recognized.

Satchitananda, being, knowing myself as peace is always here.

Have a look!

So for a moment, don’t take a birth of self.

For a moment, just remain unborn, your being knowing.

It’s good to be with you.

Leave any requests in the comment below.

And I’ll be back again tomorrow.

Peace.

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Good morning everyone.

So let’s look into what a holiday is.

It’s exactly as the name implies.

A holiday means a break.

A break from attending to

yourself, holding yourself up as an individual.

It’s a lot of work,

a lot of energy we go into maintaining the sense of self.

So a holiday is just to have a break from that.

And there’s more as well to what a holiday was.

reveals, but let’s start with that.

So just for a moment.

Don’t attend to yourself, which means past and future, All of your beliefs.

and opinions and ideas, poor me, great me, all of that.

Me as the center of the universe.

For a moment, just,

that’s all fine,

but just leave it for a moment and come out into the sun,

pure knowing I know that I am here

and now.

There’s no effort involved in just being.

Upholding that self, that story,

going in there again and again on that carousel

that’s like work, isn’t it?

You struggle and think and suffer.

All of that.

So to stop that for a moment is a holiday.

Come out into the sun.

Just pure knowing, pure being.

You can call it pure subjective consciousness,

where there’s no object separate from the subject itself,

the subject being I.

So it’s simply I knowing myself.

I am I, consciously.

This can immediately elicit a sense of peace, stillness, silence.

And if so, enjoy.

But the main thing isn’t the peace, bliss, silence.

The main thing is even in the midst of that,

I know that I am

pure subjective consciousness.

I am I.

And there’s really a lot to say,

or, a lot to recognize.

a holiday reveals many things, which we’ll go over,

something new each day.

But for today, I just wanted to start from the beginning.

Simply being, pure being,

Holiday from the obsession with self.

Too much effort.

It’s good to be back.

I’ll try to put out a holiday every day.

And yeah, I’ll be back again tomorrow.

Peace.

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Here is a Holiday from the latest Open Meeting. The intensive begins on Sunday. We will be doing lots of these as well as many inquiries to have a genuine paradigm shift. If you’d like to join you can get all the info here. INTENSIVE INFO

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Here is the opening holiday from last week’s open meeting. Enjoy.

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If you were not able to attend today’s Open Meeting, here is the opening holiday, It was a very beautiful meeting. Thank you everyone who came and contributed.

At the end we unfortunately had a hacker break in and disrupt the meeting in a vile way. I apologise for this and have researched how to prevent it in the future.

I am flying to USA tomorrow for my move there with my partner. I’ve uploaded some daily inquiries so there will be no break. Enjoy!

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Come to rest as being

Everything rises and falls in empty mind

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Some teachings say, “I am only awareness”. But is a wave not also ocean? Non-duality means just that. There is not two - awareness and form. There is only ocean, and that includes waves.

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