Nothing at all to do, nothing at all to do about anything!

Yes, make a cup of tea because that doesn't give you any trouble,

whatever it is that you have to do:

answer the phone, make this appointment, whatever ...

but that's not accompanied by this idea that

that there is something

that I need to do to be

stable in the Awareness, because I tell you that is a trap!

Forget about it.

If you touch this idea,

you believe it instantly into existence.

And then you have to believe another idea to remove it.

So why not drop both ideas in the first place, and stay where you are.

You're simply here within which

all that arises for you,

including the sense of spirituality.

Forget about spirituality. Yeah.

Forget about enlightenment.

And forget about every... Forget about you also.

And what remains here?

That which cannot be

gotten rid of ... remains.

It's just that -- simpler than simple!

Sometimes we overuse

the intellectual faculties,

which are only meant to take you up to this seeing.

And thereby they say, "Goodbye, we have served you enough." They will go.

You're simply here.

All this knowledge that we acquire called 'spiritual knowledge' is only a mirror

for the Timeless to see itself.

And for what reason?

For no other reason than it's fascinated with its own

recognition, for some reason.

I don't see

that the idea that something is difficult,

which is a persistent

notion in the psyche of the human expression of Consciousness,

that we just have to do something to kind of ...

Sometimes we're speaking like

also

a sense that we must get something

accurately.

So I say, "No, there's no accuracy in the Self."

Or, "Everything is the Self."

If you give up

all your notions, all your effort

to try and get somewhere --

just drop it right here and now --

because you have the power to do it.

Just drop it.

Yes.

Just like you're sitting in a restaurant full of people,

clinking glasses and

utensils and stuff, and talking and there's music,

and yet you can have a sweet conversation with your friend sitting across the table

because you don't let it in.

Yeah.

In the same way, you don't let these thoughts in:

'That there's something'

'that I need to do'

'just to stay more'

'present.'

And the minute you're without this thought,

the recognition is here.

You know what?

Oftentimes, this moment of seeing is attended by great laughter.

There's nobody laughing, it's just ...

It seems too simple to be true,

because how many books?

How many libraries?

How many CDs? How many ...

teachers?

How many stories?

Can it all be pointing to this simplicity? My God!

What a joke! What a strange thing!

That I simply am.

Some full acceptance of this

ever-present Truth

happens, as it were.

We can give it a title of grace or sort of

benediction or whatever it is,

but it simply happens.

And this movement, that there is something

that needs to be corrected ...

yes!

At times I can say this

because

another time I might tell you, "You know what?"

"You need to stop doing that and do this."

And there has to be

that flexibility,

that openness,

which is present in the Beingness

to actually hear that

and see the sense in that in the moment

and still see that,

although you have to do something to see that,

actually you have to do nothing to be that.

So this is the kind of paradox that

seems to happen.

And we are mostly molested by these thoughts

that something gets in the way.

Yes.

So there's a time when I'll tell you, "Yes, in the moment, this thing seems to be in the way."

And I'll also ask you, "In the way of what?"

Yes.

And what is witnessing

the sense of this obstruction, being in the way of what?

We have said that Awareness cannot be

on the other side of working through

any process or practice. It can, it has to be

that in which even the very idea, the striving,

the first thought happens

already in the Awareness.

So any journey

from that thought onward,

can only happen in Awareness,

but cannot be taking you to Awareness as an objective goal.

It is only there's ... the discovery

of the subject to itself.

And sometimes when you read it,

of course in trying to convey,

that which really cannot be conveyed with words,

it cannot be touched or carried in the word.

At best you may say,

out of the

irrefutable authority of the seeing,

those words are imbibed with a sort of Presence.

They have a power in them.

They have more light or something in them

when they come from that seeing

at best.

Yes.

That when you yourself

are the seeing

and the experiencing,

and yet beyond at the same time.

You cannot explain this. And as I said before,

thankfully you don't have to write a thesis about it.

It's just your own

inner seeing.

Something 'very private'. Let's use the word for that

for the moment.

But it cuts away, strips back

all these layers of

'should-do's' and 'should-do not's',

and leave the Truth in its nakedness as it is,

here present now.

What can be simpler than that?

Prior even to simplicity,

you are That.

Our minds are rarely

enjoying this complete rest.

When the mind is in

complete rest,

meaning that it's not carrying any intention,

any notion

that there's something

to be attained

in order to be something,

it spontaneously

is one

itself.

It itself is Self.

Yes.

Drop the notion that something stops you from being This.

That's only a notion arising in This.

What is This?

And who's there outside of This to know it?

In this

that we are,

it does not even say,

"I am This."

This is why I said,

"Missing the obvious"

because

we engage with some construction

about what This must be.

And then looking at your mind

and your conditioning,

you feel unworthy:

'I'm not worthy of

That actually.'

You identify with that

which gives a sense that you are

less than.

Because as long as there's a search,

there's a sense something is missing.

Therefore, this is why

they're searching.