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[Music] Notice that behind and beyond the field of efforts is a space of effortless silence. Any effort to be silent becomes merely a cloud passing. The silence is already inherent in the self, in the natural space of isness, or pure being. Undisturbed and undisturbed is the pure self. You're here. It is our true place.
Sometimes, in front plays the the effort to become, but this is watched and watchable. When this is observed, don't go with the pull towards thoughts. This is the habit of the mind. Stay as you [Music] are. Even here, mind engages with effort and misses the natural [Music] silence.
There's no tension in the self because there's no effort. Notice this. If the feeling of effort is coming, that is okay. What is making effort? See if that can be [Music] found. Don't identify. There's a space within us where nothing changes because it is always is present. The changeful can be observed. You're the undisturbed self, but the habit is to doubt [Music] this. Watch both the doubt and habit without becoming [Music] involved. Remain in the natural state. Don't try to analyze what the natural state [Music] is. It is concept [Music] free.
Any habit or reflex to engage with the person or the sense of personhood is also a cloud [Music] passing. Nothing sticks to the [Music] real. May you confirm this [Music]? Efforts are not merely to be empty, but to know and be the self. For whom is this [Music] advice? What responds to this advice, to this pointer? The intelligence of the [Music] being. Still, the ultimate is untouched. You're in the place to confirm this.
If we should feel a rush of activity in the in the mind, don't panic. Don't engage. Mind is seeking attention. There is no pretense in the [Music] self. It cannot be manipulated. It cannot become what you think or imagine it is. Without desire, truly recognizing that which alone is unchanging automatically blesses every aspect of your expression spontaneously. Notice that within the self, uh, there's no time. The pull towards future or past has no power here. Why to know this? Why to recognize this? Is it merely to escape from the realm of the mind? For the one who is free, there's no fear of the [Music] mind. The psychological aspect of the mind cannot intimidate the natural self. It can only intimidate the idea we have of who we are, and not the truth of [Music] ourself.
And some of you, this is already nicely establishing itself. This most important discovery: the self is untouchable. And to know this beyond merely intellectual conviction, this is [Music] freedom. Don't plan your awakening. So right now, you may leave everything aside as much as you can perceive. Simply don't engage or combine, just for the purpose of being totally clear as to your true position. The wise leave everything, even the sense of "I." What remains? Be so here that any response is already late. We are the timeless experiencing [Music] time. The Fess experiencing through [Music] Farm. The imperishable experiencing mortality. The pure experiencing imperfection. Don't cling to any image or [Music] concept. And spontaneously, this is confirmed in you.
Watch and see. Mind grows only through the attention given to [Music] it. Same as the person. The very person itself is a time-bound phenomenon appearing in the S. It too is a cloud passing. For the one who is free, it has no reality, no magnetism. So even the term [Music] freedom, this concept is not natural to the self. When we taste the feeling of bound, then the taste for freedom feels very true. But in a natural state, even this sense of freedom is meaningless. It has never been bound. [Music]
Have I gone too far to say this? The Consciousness which shines as the light of the world itself is perceived in the immensity of the absolute. There's no need to imagine this [Music]. But if you desire the world, this knowledge will not fully confirm itself in [Music] you. There is an innocence in the phenomenality. There's no cynicism towards anything that appears. But whatever appears, disappears also. Whatever comes, goes. This is naturally known and felt within our being. Yet the habit to identify at the level of the body-mind seem to persist. When we consciously observe this, the grip loosens. And again, you may confirm yourself as the [Music] weakness. The space returns, but it never left. Therefore, freedom means to be conscious of your consciousness. [Music] That is the experience, the only one which is unchanging. The uncreated self.
Mind will invite you to accept the sense of personhood as your as your reality. It will seek to convince you of your [Music] ordinariness, that you're merely flesh, blood, and bones, and conditioning. But there is within everyone that seed of knowing that reminds you that you, you are the imperishable [Music] self. [Music] Unblemish. Without knowing this, the world is [Music] doomed. For this reason, I say you're dece needs of awakening in a sleeping [Music] world. But there remains still sleep within [Music] us, pulling you into time. When we remember and recognize our true self, dispel this delusion is [Music] broken. These things should be our daily experiences here in the SRA, for in truth, there's space for little else. [Music] This is the power of this [Music] place to support your awakening.
All experiences have a beginning and end and [Music] duration, but that which experiences experiencing is timeless. But when will we know this? The vibration often broken pieace and joy is flowing in you, but do you recognize them? No. Who are you truly apart from the inexplainable [Music]? Apart from the indefinable, who are we [Music]? To the self, nothing happens. And yet, there is no conflict between activity or the dance of the life force and the self itself. They are [Music] one. Delusions are no challenge to the self, for in the self, there are no [Music] delusions. For the self is beyond belief. Do we need imagination to know [Music] this? Imagination cannot reach [Music].
These words are not for your [Music] mind, but your heart. Know them, for in this way alone we honor ourselves. How to make this understanding stay? How to make it live? Once you have seen, you cannot really [Music] unsee. Once you truly see with the power of the heart, you cannot unsee. [Music] A natural deconstruction [Music] happens when the false begins to fall away. This is your experience of many of you, I hope most, but I wish all. If in one, in this can be deeply known, and this is the value of one instant. What is the value of the infinite and the timeless? Who will assess it? [Music] Value. Exhaustible [Music] source. That which you are directly perceiving now, can it [Music] fade? Can it leave? What distance is this from your own self? Once it is seen, delight yourself in confirming it over and over in to your heart's [Music] joy.
Yet the habit and reflex to sleep, you must [Music] overcome. This sleep means sleep of ignorance. Actually, in the truth, ignorance does not exist. Largely, we are suffering from the phantoms of our own projections. Identify with nothing. Be even beyond [Music] attitude. When Consciousness plays birth, then within every sentient being must come to taste of delusion, desire for the [Music] ephemeral. Walking through the forest of existence, the forest of time and change, of life and death, we forget. But when you remember that you forget, you breathe again in the pure light of Consciousness. All that I say is provable [Music] now, unless you offer it to your mind. In sat s, we've been somehow preparing for our own dashan of the formless, while all the time you're the formless. And yet, we must taste. This is the [Music] play which we suffer until understanding comes. [Music] But we imagine we so much [Music] enjoy. Is there joy in the realm of the ego? Most certainly, because it is also born out of Consciousness.
Don't put your attention so much upon the words, but in the place from where they emerge. You're here [Music] too, greater and beyond any concept. But who is experiencing this? Only the self. [Music] Nothing in the world can give you the self, because you are inseparable from the [Music] S. It can only [Music] reflect. Clean the attention, return it to the source. [Music] Being quiet does not mean being [Music] lazy. Finding your stillness, your natural state, is the most powerful. We cannot gauge this power, for there's nothing that can compete with it. Therefore, it shines as love and peace, compassion in the realm of the [Music] dynamic. Find yourself as the unmoving, yet the dynamic cannot be without you. [Music]
Soon your eyes will not see sorrow [Music] anymore, even in others. Better to bless than to pray for, because when we pray for someone, it may contain judgment. To the earnest seeker, it is as though the infinite is bursting to reveal its beauty, its glory, its perfectness. What can obstruct it? Our lives are swimming in [Music] Grace. And yet, if we we believe our minds, it will make you doubt this.