Kindle Notes & Highlights
all this crap about trying to live in the now, look at it the other way. Try and get out of the now if you can. Can anyone get out of the now? What’s the point of trying to live in something you can’t get out of? That’s one of the traps we fall into. These things need to be looked at and seen because nobody’s going to give you anything. You’re not going to get anything.
“There’s nothing that can trouble you except in your own imagination.” When you investigate, you’ll see that anything that troubles you is in your imagination, in the imagining. That word, imagine – image-ing – creating mental images or concepts. An image is not the real.
what you’re seeking you already are. Start from that fact and that makes the problem a lot easier. See you’re already That and see through some of those false beliefs, and then there’s nothing to look for. Then you’ve fallen right into what you’ve never left, what you’ve always been.
Ask yourself this question: what is wrong with right now if I don’t think about it? To do that, you have to pause a thought. Now in dropping the thought, there is just pure wakefulness, awareness, being-ness. You can’t say it’s good, you can’t say it’s bad, you can’t say anything. There is nothing wrong with right now unless I think about it. It’s the thought that is the problem.
It’s an appearance we call me, or I, but it is not substantial. When there is a knowing and understanding of that, then there is a natural relaxation.
We don’t live a life, life is living you.
When you take that entity out, what are you? You are life itself, which has no beginning and has no ending.
It’s simply impossible to become one when there’s not even one. There is only that. Not two. There were never two.
The struggle to become something, to become realised, to become enlightened, become one, is constantly keeping you out of presence.
The difference is when it’s my sadness, or my fear, or my unhappiness, then it’s a problem. If sadness, fear, unhappiness or disturbance, or whatever is not labelled, then it’s free to flow, it’s not being fixated on.
When you are in utter stillness, there’s no conflict, there’s no anything. How do I get there more often? Bob: You will never be in that stillness. You are the stillness. The stillness is expressing and what you call you is appearing in that stillness. So that’s what you are. That’s what you really are. That is the stillness. So what do you have to do to be still? There’s more stillness in this room than there is movement. There’s a little bit of movement here and there, but is that stillness contaminated or hurt by the movement? Go outside into the vastness of space. There is more stillness
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Just recognise that whether there’s chatter or movement, or anything going on, it is going on in the stillness, because there couldn’t be movement without stillness. Stillness is not something that has to be looked for.
Instead of being, we are trying to become.
Well I suppose you could call it realising that there is nothing there. You could just say it’s that. But as far as enlightenment is concerned – who and what could be enlightened? It’s just like a simple dawning. Just as you might be in a hurry to get to work in the morning and you dash out and slam the door behind you. A hundred metres down the road, it suddenly dawns on you that you have forgotten your keys. And all the while you’ve known you’ve left them there, but you hadn’t really known until you remembered.
You then realise that it was always so. It was just seemingly obscured, just like the keys on the table weren’t remembered until it suddenly hit you.
no-thing ever happened, yet it really is the source of everything.
In just letting the natural functioning happen, you realise there’s no one who is letting it happen. So just be. Just be what you actually are and see what happens from there. Realise that if there’s no entity there now, then when were you? When could it ever have been real? If you see something is a fiction, it must have always been a fiction. So you must realise that all the living that has gone on in that so-called appearance has never been done by you, the entity.
Never at any time have you done anything. So you’ve been lived all the way through. All the thoughts, feelings, emotions and expressions of that awareness that have happened through that pattern have never been done by you. So see that. Re-cognise what you already are.
You might be standing, walking, eating, doing whatever. That sense of presence is everywhere. It’s what I call a natural meditation. There is no-one to meditate and nothing to meditate on. Recognise your own essence – the essence that you are. You can’t find a centre anywhere, not in the mind, nor in the body. So what’s seeing? Without a centre the seeing is still happening, appearing is still happening, thinking is still happening. If it’s not coming from a centre, where’s it coming from?
It is the emptiness itself that is suffused with knowing or intelligence. The thoughts are coming from that, and so too are the feelings and emotions and the energy that’s patterning this body. It’s all coming from the emptiness. The emptiness has got no dimension to it whatsoever. There is no centre or circumference.
Just stay with the immediacy of what is now, instead of chasing. The mirror doesn’t chase after the reflections. What we’re doing is chasing after concepts in the mind. Be the mirror. You don’t have to go anywhere; it’s what’s all appearing.
When a sensation comes up which we might call anger, where are we naming that anger from? The past. If you’re being with that sensation just as it is in the moment, is it anger if you haven’t got a label for it? It’s just what is.
True meditation is when you see there’s no-one to meditate and nothing to meditate on.
that’s the only problem we’ve ever had – believing there is a seeker searching for something.
We’re always trying to become something – to become complete – not realising that we were never separate in the first place.
If I’m not asleep, what must I be? There’s no need to look for it. It’s actually there. All that needs to happen is to leave it unaltered, unmodified, uncorrected. Get the taste of the wakefulness.
If the feelings and emotions are not being fixated on, then they’re free to move on. They are just playing out in the moment so they don’t hang around.
