– Transcript 211
R: Hear ye: Nothing exists. (laughter)
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The only reason the world exist is because you think you are the body.
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You have created God in your own image and you worship that God. The truth is that God should worship you.
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The universe is a big lie. And if you believe in the universe then you’re a bigger liar.
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You are all waiting for something to happen. The truth is what is already is happening has already happened. There is nothing else to happen, so let it happen.
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There is absolutely nothing for you to do to become self-realized, except shut up!
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There is no one who can do anything for you and you can do nothing for yourself.
It is better therefore to keep quiet and do nothing.
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There is no teacher that can set you free and there is no teacher that can set you free. Just knowing this, you will already be free.
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Expect nothing, do nothing, be nothing and you will discover that you are everything.
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No one can save and you cannot save yourself. Knowing this, be still!
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If you only knew who you were then all the Gods and Goddesses that you have been praying to would fall at your feet.
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Forget about affirming., “I am not the body,” for if you were not the body why would you affirm you were not the body?(silence)
Consciousness, pure awareness are only words, go beyond that.
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To know the ultimate truth, you first must know nothing.
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The whole universe is a manifestation of your mind. To remove the manifestation examine your mind carefully, diligently by inquiring, “To whom does this come?”
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It is virtually impossible for you to have a problem. How can you have a problem if you don’t even exist?
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Do not complicate your life by reading voluminous books. Rather empty yourself up of all the book language you’ve ever had.
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Reading a book makes you feel good for a while. But diving within yourself removes all samskaras and samsaras and sets you free.
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To love yourself is better than reading books and going to lectures or hearing sermons or doing anything.
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You are that which has always been. Discover what that is. By turning within.
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Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum. (students laugh)
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Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight!
Feel free to ask questions.
Fred (SF): I have something to ask. Last Thursday I ventured an observation that when Christ said, “The Father and I are one,” there’s a marry to it and it’s the same as saying, “I am Brahman,”
that when he said it was not an affirmation. He was stating a fact. He was no longer an individual.
And he was one with the universal consciousness, so he was the universal consciousness. And to Christmas I’m going to quote Bhagwan Sri Ramana our friend on the mantle as to what he said about Christ. He said, “Jesus the man was utterly unconscious of being a separate personality when he worked his miracles and spoke his wonderful words. It was white light, the light. Which is the cause and effect acting in perfect concert, the Father and I are one.” And that’s what Master up there had to say about him.
R: That is wonderful Fred but what do you say? (SF: I say the same thing.) Good.
Live it. Become it. It all goes back to you. Do not think of people external from yourself.
You are Bhagvan. You are the Christ. You are the one. Only you and no one else. See yourself that way.
Fred (SF): Something else that I was thinking. When I was up in Montana I knew a guy that was a real bad drinker and he ended up drinking himself to death. (R: Sounds like a fun guy.) Oh he had a great time. He experienced a lot of delirium tremors and one time he had snakes coming in under the door into his room. (R: Right.) White snakes. (R: Good for him.) And rather than being terrorized the way most people are with D.T. it didn’t frighten him. He got up and sticked them up and opened the door and tossed them outside. And my thought was, I gather from what you’re saying those snakes are no less real or more real than those dogs that are wandering around the slum tonight.
R: Exactly, this is very true. What is real and what is not real? (SF: Nothing is real or everything real, look at it either way.) Real or not real, they are both impostors. (SF: Words.) Forget about what is real and not real. Go beyond that. Awaken to yourself. Which is neither real or not real. Know who you are, be free!
R: No one wishes to ask any questions about Santa Claus or Rudolph. (SV: Why don’t you come to my house.) Already been there. (SV: No but what can I do with it?) Put a piece of charcoal in your sock.
SY: May I ask a question. A lot of times I find it almost impossible to keep still. As if I feel I would go out of my mind if I had to keep still for that long.
R: That is good you want to go out of your mind. That’s just the point. When you feel that way observe it, watch it, look at it. Don’t try and change it. Do not try to make yourself sit still. Go along with what is happening. But realize what is going on, be aware of your restfulness…restlessness rather. Be aware of how restless you are. Watch yourself, observe yourself. And go along with what is happening. And go along with what is happening. Dance, sing, jump up and down, but do not force yourself to be still. That is the worst thing you can do. Do not force yourself to do anything or to be anything. Just see what is happening and be aware of what is happening and go along with what is going on. (SY: How do I discipline myself to help me to keep still?) You don’t want to discipline yourself. When you discipline yourself it’s a cosmic joke because you’re thinking there is somebody to discipline the self. And you’ll become more restless. Rather than thinking of disciplining yourself you inquire, “To whom does this come? Who thinks they’re not disciplined? Who needs to discipline themselves? Who is going through all this?”
And don’t push yourself or force yourself. But when you observe what you’re doing, what is going on that is the discipline you’re talking about. BY watching and looking and not changing anything. No matter whether you’re sitting down trying to be still and you can’t be still, do not do anything to try to make yourself be still at all. You go along with the momentum with what’s happening now. By looking and realizing what is going on, this makes you still. Do you follow that? (SY: Yeah.) Not by trying to become still but by looking and watching. The commotion the upheaval what is going on. By observing it with your mind. By looking at it, will make your mind weaker and weaker till your mind disappears. But by forcing it to change it will become worse and disturb you even worse. Never force your mind to change because your mind is stronger than you.
It’s by looking at the mind that makes it weak. By observing it’s actions makes it weak. Do not pay attention to it. We’re not trying to discipline it at all. It becomes weak and disappears. To observe yourself, watch yourself, go along with what is happening and you’ll be free. (silence) (dog snores) That’s good. Sleeping dog.
SH: I know the feeling.
R: Well, Santa Claus is coming to town. What are you going to do about that?
That’s important. It;s just as important as the life we are living. Santa Claus is like the world it makes all kinds of promises and gives you nothing. (laughter) If you meet Santa Claus on the way home shoot him! (laughter)
SK: Is that the same as, if you meet the Buddha on the road, shoot him?
R: Exactly. Santa Claus is a Buddha. It’s time we got rid of everybody. (SK: Well what happens if we meet Robert on the road?) Shoot him too. (laughter) (SK: What happens if we don’t want to?) Shoot yourself. (laughter) They’re all impostors.
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You might think I’m trying to take the fun out of life. (students laugh) I am. For after all what is your life? A bunch of memories from the past, fears about the future, that is Santa Claus. That is the Buddha, that is Robert. It’s all the same. Go beyond all of that.
Go deep beyond everything and you’ll meet yourself.
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The real bliss lies deep, deep, within yourself. Like a hidden treasure. This is why we talk like this. Get rid of Santa Claus, get rid of the Buddha, get rid of Robert get rid of everybody. For as long as you see an image you are evading your bliss. You keep evading the bliss that you are and you keep identifying with images. All of the images must go.
Especially the images of yourself that you are a walking breathing person. If that goes everything else will go also. Remember also all the so-called happy things of this world only exist for a short time before they change into something else. Therefore you want to find your bliss. Which is total absolute reality. Once you can discover this bliss, what can ever make you sad again, nothing. For this bliss is not like human happiness. Human happiness is kindergarten compared to this bliss. This bliss is your birth right, this is what you are. Unconditioned bliss.
S: Sri Ramana said, the original sin is that we’re thinking we’re human beings. (R: Certainly.) Or the original sin is thinking first. (R: That is right.) “Thinking is not mans real nature,’
to quote him again.
R: Fred you’re full of quotes this evening. (SF: I think it came from him?) That’ okay.
(SF: I don’t think I’m quoting any scripture.) It’s okay you can quote. (SF: I’ll stop at this point.) What about you? Who is Fred? (SF: As long as I think I’m an individual I’m stuck with thinking things are individual as well.) Very true. So stop thinking you’re individual.
SP: I think Robert, (R: Hello.) Your truly amazing. I say you’re truly amazing.
R: I’m amazing? Why should I be amazing? (SP: Your compassion and your love for us and the patience that you have for us is so special.) I bet you say that to all the girls. (laughter) (SP: You’ve blown my cover. I was looking for brownie points and I…) You’re alright Howard.
All is well.
R: Tony’s putting on his shoes. That means he is taking off. (ST: No my feet are cold.) Oh. (laughter) I’ll have to give you a foot massage. I’ll be happy to massage your feet. No charge. (SP: I don’t have any feet.) Then how do you walk. There is a man with out feet here.
Which means we have a person who has no feet. If he didn’t have a head that would be much better. (SP: I’m working on it.)
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R: Anyone like to sing “White Christmas?” (SH: How about “Rudolph the red nose Reindeer?”) Sure Henry you can sing that. (SH: No, I suggested that Mary could sing it?
(laughter) Hey Mary.)
Mary (SM): No I’ll run away. (laughs)
R: Well here we are prior to Christmas Eve and we’ve got nothing to do.
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(dog snores)
SH: Did yo think it was me? (laughter) Thanks, thanks a lot.
R: Mary why don’t you read the Jnani? (SM: Alright.)
(Mary reads the Jnani refer to the beginning of this book) R: Thank you Mary. It is now time for prashad.
Mary (SM): Can I say one thing first? (R: We have announcements.) SM: Just one thing. I’ve just got to say, remember next week our satsang is also on Wednesday night not Thursday because of New Years. And of course this coming Sunday is the Bhandara which will be at 1 o clock.
SS: Just take a look at the sign up sheet there is all kinds of things we still need. We still need juice. We’re learning to from some of the mistakes from the other bhandara so it’s going to be ever especially nice this Sunday.
(continuing more general announcements and prashad as tape ends)
Absätze ohne Sprecherpräfix gehören dem zuletzt genannten Sprecher — so steht es im Buch, wo der Präfix nur den Anfang einer Rede markiert. Die Zuordnung ist eine Folgerung dieser Ausgabe. Namen in Klammern sind aus dem Text erschlossen: sicher belegt sind SM = Mary, SF = Fred, SJ = Jay, SC = Nate, wahrscheinlich SG = Glen, SR = Jorge. Alle anderen Kürzel bleiben stehen, weil der Beleg nicht trägt.