Session 2: Experiencing Truth (4th February 1965)
All we need to do is
to let go of our concepts of limitation, and what's
left over is the natural, infinite, unlimited Being. Sometimes a subject is called truth, sometimes God, metaphysics, but actually, it's the
subject that every human being, whether he is aware of it or not, is trying to
learn.
And that's why I like the
word ‘Happiness’ instead of ‘God’, ‘infinity’, ‘truth’. This thing called ‘Happiness’ is the very nature of this
unlimited Being, and every time we're happy we’re allowing a bit more of this
unlimited Being to express itself — to come out, or we're cutting off a certain
amount of limitation of that infinite being, and then we say “I am happy.”
There is no Happiness that isn't a feeling of your real inner Self — that's what it
is. Therefore,
I sometimes call the subject ‘Happiness’, that the goal is to attain a continuous
Happiness with absolutely no sorrow whatsoever.
When I define the word ‘truth’, I say ‘truth’ is
that which never changes. This
constant state of happiness never changes, and as I said before — I'd like
to make this practical, what is it that
never changes? Beingness
just be; it doesn't change. Existence
just exists; it doesn't change.
So, truth is
beingness, but it's beingness being all beingness. It's the very beingness that you are when you
use the word ‘I’ with nothing added
to it — just the word ‘I’, that feeling
of ‘I’ — that's your beingness. That's infinite, that's unlimited, until
you put concepts of limitation over it, and hide it.
So, the top goal
is beingness being all beingness. When we recognize that ‘you are me,’ or
that ‘I am you,’ ‘I am all beings,’ as you let go the of the concept of
limitation, this thing comes about naturally.
Another thing that doesn't
change is an ‘awareness that is aware of all awareness’ — that's the
ultimate, can't change anymore.
Consciousness conscious of all consciousness.
This infinite Being
which some people call God, we are experiencing all the time, every moment, by
just experiencing our Beingness. But we limit
it to this body and this mind. But that
beingness is actually infinite, that awareness is infinite, and all we need to
do is let go of the concepts that limit it.
Now the first major wrong
step we make is to say “I am an individual separate from all
beingness.” Then we have to
create an instrument to be separate with — and that's the mind. The mind reflects back to us as much as this
infinite beingness as we want it to, that reflection is cut more and more. The more we take on concepts of
limitation. We cannot grow into this infinite being
because we are that, here and now, but
we can let go of all concepts to the contrary.
Now, the reason why some of you have been so happy for a short period of
time, and then all of a sudden, it seemed as though the sky fell, and is
only because you were able to perceive this infinite being that you
are. But
you weren't able to keep out all the accumulated concepts of limitation from
the past that prop up every now and then.
Every time a concept of limitation comes up, you're not infinite
anymore, and you're miserable. Unhappiness is a restriction upon being
totally free — unlimited.
So, these patterns of thought in the past — their tendencies,
predispositions now — they prop up, even after we've seen, very deep, very
deeply, this inner being that we are.
So, what we need to do is to keep throwing off these
limitations as they pop up, until there are no more, then what's left is the
infinite being that we are.
The thing to
do is to keep throwing them [these limitations] out until there are no more. Some of us have been accumulating these
things for tens of thousands of years, so they die hard, they don't go very
easily. However, being unlimited
infinite Beings, by sheer power of will, a few people can just like that throw
them all out. It happens occasionally,
or maybe few dozen people each generation do it, in the entire world.
They are the so-called masters;
they recognize that they are not limited by the body-mind. They consciously exit their body when they
die, which allows them to come back in a body, or not to come back in a body,
as they choose. The great
spiritual leaders are those who have chosen to come back in a body, they didn't
have to come back [from the karma perspective]. The rest of us must come back by force of
habit, we have a desire for things here, and so we come back here.
Desire is
the only thing that keeps us coming back to this state of life, which is the most difficult possible state to any being, as
a state we're in now. But as I've said because of that it affords the greatest of growth. It's the post graduate course — we passed this course we
get our wings, our degrees.
So even
though it's extremely difficult, it's a tremendous advantage to be here. Although it doesn't look that way until you
understand this. It looks more like a
hell than a heaven — that's because of limitations, self-imposed, in the past
that have now been relegated to the unconscious part of us.
We’ve put it [those concepts
of limitation] in the back of the mind, where we don't see it for the moment,
but all those concepts of limitation are there, and are effective, and keep us
confined, pressed down, bottled. And consciously
we want to be free — freer than a bird.
And so there's a conflict between this conscious desire to be free
and the unconscious concepts of limitation.
And you feel unhappy, you don't see it because it's unconscious.
There's two ways of licking
that, one is make the unconscious conscious and when you see it, throw it out. There
is an easier, faster, better way — by getting quiet, by turning your mind
within yourself, asking “Who am
I? What am I? What's this world? What's my relationship to it?” If you
will stick with those questions, you will see this infinite Being that you are. It's not easy because of a habit that's been
going on for millenniums. It takes a
tremendous desire for this truth or whatever we're seeking to accomplish
it.
Most of us get the desire from
being beaten so hard by the world, we finally get up enough gumption to want
this, and then when it begins to make your
life happier, then you want it because you know this is it.
[Comment: And for those who are wiser, such as
those come with a higher consciousness, they may not need to get beaten by the
world, they will be somehow attracted to this path, automatically.]
There's no
top limit to happiness, to joy. And when
you experience some of this joy gotten from going within, you will always want
to re-establish a very happy state — which is the natural state. No matter how much you'll get
away from it, sooner or later, you'll be back on a path trying to establish the
constancy of this happiness.
The basic
law in this universe is harmony; God is absolute harmony. When we are in tune with the universe, our
life is completely harmonious — no effort is
required to do anything, everything falls perfectly into line.
When we
see God as all, and we know God is harmony, everything is in harmony right now,
and to the degree we accept that — is the quickness thereof.
Another way of putting that I guess is — to see God
in everything, in everyone, everywhere [Oneness].
God is beauty, harmony,
rightness, everything good, and accept that. And
then allow this God principle to arrange things for you.
We have to get our little selves out of the way, the sense of
Ego-ity — “I am an individual, separate, not God to
do things...” — is what makes
all problems. The moment we let go
of that sense of egoism - “Let it be God's world.
Let God do it. He knows how…” — when we do that, everything falls into line, can be a court trial, be
anything, can be a sick body — the moment we accept that principle, everything
harmonizes. Radical reliance upon God
will do it. Let go and let God.
I moved unusually fast
because either I got the answers or I was finished [die from sickness]. But the
method I used happened to be the very highest possible method — “Who am I?”
— that was the driving question. “Who am
I? What am I?”
I was so determined, my mind was concentrated. And when your mind is concentrated the
answers are there. A concentrated mind is a mind that keeps out extraneous thoughts,
holds only the thing you're interested in, and when you do that the answer
comes.
Thoughts will come in, when a
thought comes in, say “To whom is this thought?
Well, the thought is to me. Who
am I?”
— and you're back on the track again. And this
manner you can keep knocking out these thoughts. If you'll continue that you will be to a place where
these thoughts don't come in anymore and you're free of thoughts.
Many of us have experienced it for a certain length of time —
it's a feeling of complete at oneness with everything. It's a thing of no otherness. It's a feeling a very profound peace, even though there's
activity, you see no action, everything just is. The very top state is one of very profound peace.
Peace is the word that comes closest to it. And see, because these states are not
ordinarily experienced — there are no words for it them. First is feelingness, it is feelingness, then
it goes on, it turns to Beingness.
When you first get interested in this path, everything is thought, thoughts, all mind thinking,
and then thoughts take on a certain feelings, like a thought and a feeling at
the same time, to thought-feelingness,
and as you move, you get into the realm of feelingness,
and then the step above that is the realm of Beingness.
So, it depends on where you are, as to whether it's
feelingness or beingness. Actually
everyone and it's every act seeking his real Self. You will never ever be satisfied until we
reach that state of knowing ourselves completely.
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