The Key to Freedom — Transcript

[music] It seems all of this comes from my heart. Yes. What does it mean, all of this? All of this, what comes from your heart? All of the manifest.

Okay. You. Yes. But there's a strong... And you too. And you too. This body, perhaps.

Okay. Your body is not trouble. There's a bigger trouble in that body than the body.

Sorry, I don't understand. Uh, the unquestioned identity of personhood, and even though it seems it can even play the game of self-questing and don't budge.

You understand? Yes. But I point to a very natural awareness which so naturally cannot be seen because it is that which is seen which is seeing.

We have come to a really important point. I want to stay with you, and I want to stay with you because you say, no, I'm kind of fed up. I'm kind of... I'm kind of fed up of this

person and da da da da something. Well, not your exact words. I'm kind of fed up of this. I say, okay, if you're fed up of the person, who are you to be fed up of person? What alternative is left if the

person says something is fed up of the person? Is it the self, the pure self, that's fed up with the person? No, it is not. So who remains? Because the person is the person fed up with itself. What is

it that's fed up with the person? And I can take it out of this linear grip and say that the person is not really true.

So it is right when something says, you know, I am so tired of this person and I've grown sufficiently matured, sufficiently to see that personhood with all its wonderful promises and adventure and visions and stuff is

still a trap of something, and the one who feels entrapped feels to be me, and I'm fed up of it.

Can we recede further where the fed-upness, what it's fed up with, and the identity of the sense of self are onscreen? Does this work for you when I speak onscreen? Do you understand what I mean? Because it's a really

important [clears throat] tool. When I say onscreen, what is contained in the unscreen of your life?

What is contained on, when I say onscreen, what's there? Every single, however subtle a thing is perceived to be, even without form, maybe the form only of feeling and thought, I call it matter or what is

perceivable. Has it gone too far? Have I gone too crazy? So all that I call unscreen then, because you have earned the ability to see. I say, may I say that your persona and your identity and history is also onscreen material.

Who says yes? Okay. So I deal with you. See all that and my emotion, even the search for truth, is unscreen or not?

No, not yet. I'm not going to waste this opportunity. Not yet. I'm not taking hands now. If all that is unscreen, then whatever can admit that is onscreen. Is that onscreen?

That caused the admit. Somebody say yes. Um, that even I don't want to become so abstract and it becomes a kind of a kind of sophisticated mental excuse.

Let it be real. So if everything is onscreen and anything else likely to come is only visible, is visible to something.

Is this whatever is left that can verify this? Is all this visible? Does it have an emotional connection with the vision and the screen itself?

What is the screen? Let me call the screen consciousness, and even the witness is, to a point, very, very subtle.

If the material appearing on the screen is of interest and the witness still has traces of unscreen thing in it, it's fine. It's fine. It's a very still important tool. When you've used this tool, we can see if we can

recede beyond this tool. So however subtle the onscreen activity is and the watcher of the unscreen, if the watcher of the unscreen is emotionally connected to the unscreenness, that is also onscreen or not? Oh, so even that is also witnessed.

What remains here? Don't put it into words. Be with it. Even we say it remains, but it's not remaining.

Are you still here? That's what, don't give it a word. Don't go to words yet. Words should be your least favorite tool right now. Okay. You're not going to get away with words.

First, you confirm, be confirmed in this, that which is seen, all that is tangible onscreen. Is that itself tangible?

Slow down experience. Don't just answer. Your answers are not as important. First use and be confirmed in yourself before you tell everybody else what you see.

[snorts] Are you here or not? And if you are here as what, are you here when you now say I? Is it the same I that has relationships in the world and doing its thing? And then is it the same of that caliber or

is it still subtler than that? But an intuitive response is yes, I am here.

But as what? When everything that is tangible, the elemental world, the psychological world, the physical world, emotional world, philosophical world, religious world, and their content, your personal history, desires, ambition are all onscreen.

So when I say the witness of this onscreen, don't clothe this witness into a shape unless the witness has an emotional relationship with unscreen activity here in the seeing.

Let's go back to simple hands moving. Awareness of hand is moving. Is the awareness moving? Wind moving? No.

Is it, if this signifies the world, however subtle time, however vast space, however vast objects, however diverse relationship, idea, identity, philosophy, everything, religion, belief, existence, non-existence, worlds, universe, physical universe, non-physical universe, I'm not taking hands right now, this is awareness doing anything here? Is this realization? Now we're running out of words now. Does it have value? Can value too? Is it important realization?

Is it just a kind of, ah, that was wonderful. Let's get back to stuff. Yeah. Yeah. You can go back because when you truly realize, you'll see all the things you're trying to navigate and control, traffic, it can still be there but it's

superficial now. It's okay. In fact, it becomes beautiful because you're not a prisoner of it. You're not employed by it. It is seen that somehow it is somehow unfolding, flowing. It becomes more beautiful because you take the

acidic ingredient out, which is your person, out of it. You take the trauma out of it. You become a witness, although I don't know how important this is for you, but all your questions are pouring into this,

and no one is looking to say, "Ah, now what? Oh, I know, go and live in a little hut in the Himalayas by myself, no family." Then they'll be there, but now everything is flowing by the grace

of the self, and being is very different because all are agitated. If you live only in personal identity, you may have a seeming relative success or failure in the world. It doesn't really count because as the self, you

cannot fail or even succeed. It's very different to different reading. But I don't want, I'm not appealing to your mind.

I'm wondering if you realize that the mind, as soon as identity is left unquestioned, you're already in the field of identity.

But words alone cannot express. Your heart must be open. You're not going to solve it with logic only or study.

You must show up. Must present yourself. Offer your existence to existence. You don't have to keep pushing the mind.

The best way of using the mind is observing but with detachment. Observe what arises emotionally, energetically, mentally, all these things.

But try not to log into them. You can do this even five minutes. That's more practical.

It is very relatable advice. Just go when you can. Don't plan necessarily unless you are the kind of planning type. But if you want to, anytime you feel the pull, just go and sit by a tree or whatever on the

road. Doesn't matter. You could be in the middle of a city. Just go and find a little bench and sit. Let it all happen.

The mind says, "No, this is not a good place." No, it's a perfect place.

Let it go all whiz by and things. But find that which is not whizzing by. It's there already. It's no distance. It's only the distance of your attention.

Just, and it's not a visual attention. It's a choice attention. Just be it. And it may take a while to settle.

Just And it's not a visual attention. It's a choice attention. Just be it. And it may take a while to settle because so many things will come knocking at your door. And just leave them. Don't fight them. Don't say I wish these things

would go. No, don't wish anything. Don't wish anything. Don't desire anything. Be empty and and stay. Even if you don't manage anything else, just don't lock into anything. Let them go. But even something is tight, watch tightness, but

don't don't purchase tightness. Just just be and unfold into formlessness. And then you can see unaccompanied being just being this. It doesn't need imagination for this little practice and it uh it it enriches itself. Just that nobody tell you

because you cannot be manipulated by this. You see just you stay then come back and say Guruji said five minutes I want to stay another five. Okay you stay and feel who you are without first do this. Make no

declaration plant no flags. Just do this until your being is feels clear and unoccupied.

Put no labels onto yourself. Life gives you this opportunity and sit and clarify your being. Take up no mission for now. Just be empty. Learn to be empty and you will see if anything is really missing. When you're in your mind,

you're in agenda. Do this next and sort this out when and then. But this is here and now.

Just be 5 minutes. Sit. Then you can get up and go for what you do. Then whenever you like, just go sit five minutes.