Renda surrender surrender to what is at
this moment only this only this moment
let's say your outer circumstances are
not the best at this moment
you've just been thrown out of your home
you lost your job you give nothing in
your no money in your pocket and there
you are what do you do now how can you
not dislike this moment easy your
breathing and you look around the sky
but people cars feel the inner body and
be you become you say yes to this moment
not to a story that your mind's mind is
inventing about this moment
people confuse that here when I say say
yes to what is people think okay then I
have to say ok I have to accept that I'm
a homeless person now that I have no
prospects that I have to throw away all
that I had or people have taken it away
from me bla bla bla stories no that's
just a story I'm ruined I'm ruined I've
no nothing no you're not ruined you have
150 pens in your pocket that's the
reality I'm ruined it's the mental
addition to the reality which is a story
so what what is your mental addition to
the reality of now and you'd be amazed
for what people add to the simplicity of
now the baggage they put on to the
simplicity of now with M stories which
sometimes they've carried over from 10
years 20 years 30 years of stories
inflicted under now or whoever you are
meeting in the now or what is happening
in the Nord people carry that baggage
and life gets heavier and heavier and
for no what do you need a story for they
come to the simplicity of this moment
just this and then it's fine so we are
stepping out of story by accepting the
simplicity of this moment and that means
you become aligned with the power of
life itself which is not stupid which is
because it's intelligence itself it's
it's it out of it the entire universe
comes out of it and you are aligned with
that and then suddenly even the external
life flows with much greater ease but
that's not why you're doing it it's not
a means to an end it's an end in itself
surrender to the present moment as it is
if it's unpleasant
you don't need stories but there is such
a thing is unpleasantness because you
could be cold and hungry
I experienced a short time not having a
home and sitting around on park benches
fortunately I was already comfortable
with the present moment so it was
extremely enjoyable something that other
people might have said it's a dreadful
experience so you have
is the to two levels in you the level of
the person who goes about its business
but it's very easy to get trapped in
that dimension only so you're going to
an important meeting that's saying okay
you've graduated from being homeless now
you've got a good job you're going to an
important meeting traveling and you're
talking to the lawyers about the
contracts and this and that there's a
big project happening it's also
important and you get soit's often that
everything is becomes absolutely
important what is relative only becomes
absolute you get lost in the world and
very Sonia in a state of resistance
because you need to get there before the
contract hasn't been done yet and it's a
timely way don't you know you should get
everybody these days everything is
declined there's never anything that
people ask me to do that doesn't have a
debt but it has to be done by Monday
tomorrow next week it but it has to be
ready by we have deadlines most
deadlines I don't meet so people don't
even expect deadlines to be met anyone
they tell me we have a deadline they
already know and I suspect now they give
me false deadlines if they need it in
four months time they say--and need it
in two weeks
Subic the world which is the human mind
and the things of the world can absorb
you totally so is it possible for you to
always come back into the other
dimension and that is a beautiful
practice so you're sitting in the office
this person is smoking that person is
talking or you're driving somewhere the
important meeting and there's a moment
when you feel you're in
body there's a moment when you look up
at this tree this a moment when you
breathe take one conscious breath
there's a moment when you step out of
that stream of the world into now and
that becomes so enjoyable that more and
more often that dimension is there in
your life stepping out of the story and
there you are in the lawyer's office
discussing divorce proceedings with your
husband or wife and you're looking out
of the window and see there's a
beautiful tree but you don't even call
it a beautiful tree you just see and
there's not only a tree you can feel the
very presence in which the tree arises
and the lawyer is talking about they say
that and you look and then you look back
to the lawyer and say okay do what you
have to do and then you look back it
take a conscious breath just
continuously stepping out of the stream
that wants to absorb your attention
completely into the space of now so
you're breaking space into your life
you're bringing space into your life
also by accepting this is surrender
accepting what is brings space because
by saying yes to what arises in the
present moment you become the space for
it but she already are but didn't know
couldn't feel it couldn't know that you
are the space for the world by saying
yes to the things of that arise now you
become powerful but not in the sense of
Eagle power not powerful over somebody
or something else but in the sense that
the power of life itself is now able to
fully flow through you the power of
consciousness itself because we have two
movements in this world in a human being
one is the outgoing movement into four
that has its place in everybody that is
the outgoing movie that wants to
strengthen and preserve the form of me
and there's nothing wrong with that if
you know also the other dimension which
goes the opposite way it's the need to
be connected to the formless vastness of
being that is also in you that is
essentially who you are so there is this
every human life needs to be a balance
between form and the depths of
formlessness otherwise in the whole
world is lost in form so the dimension
which is the sacred dimension which is
the spiritual dimension whatever you
want to call it to a large extent in the
world modern culture is completely
lacking it's dreadfully unbalanced
dreadfully unhappy dreadfully insane and
if humans do not encounter this within
themselves now then simply this these
forms will no longer be useful in the
universe or the human race what as if it
had never happened and then the wind
blows over the planet and the animals
are suddenly very happy
and all the plants I give a sigh of
relief wow what was that could happen
doesn't have to happen but it could
happen at the moment the humans are so
heavy and unenlightened it's a dreadful
burden on the planet
it's a rightful know the planet is only
just the planet of course is an organism
which also is an expression of the one
consciousness it has its own
consciousness which is an expression of
the one consciousness so it's only
beginning to realize now what the humans
are doing because the planet is a little
bit slower and on the planetary scale
the humans have only been here for a few
minutes so the planet is only just being
what is going on here what can I do to
get rid of these maybe I'll raise the
temperature have a little have a little
fever that's how the human body gets rid
of bacteria fever that might work or
should I make them infertile that would
be the that would be the easiest no it's
a new when you become free of the
illusion that the conditions of the
world whatever happens to you that they
are here to satisfy you that things
should always go the way you want them
to go they if the conditions are here to
bring me fulfillment it's a big delusion
conditions are here to challenge you to
frustrate you and to break you out so
instead of seeking better and better
conditions you accept the condition of
this moment and paradoxically that's
when very quickly even the outer
conditions that are not all that
important improve because power of life
moves through you fully now so that's a
practice the practice of surrender in
which you become very effective you
don't become ineffective through
surrender which is a misconception
surrender says right this is what is and
I might as well say yes to it
I'm verbalizing it but true surrender
there's no words it's just you look at
the city
what is you've perceived you look you
become the presence there's a
consciousness you're aware of yourself
as consciousness that's a little secret
of self realization space stillness
consciousness and you can feel feel is
not the right word there is no right
word in the background of all that
happens you can feel yourself as the
presence in which it happens we could
call that there is a stillness in the
background it's not the stillness of
being dead it's a vitally alive
stillness here
happened to and there see you're no
longer reactive responsive if something
needs to be done yes but not reactive so
the question is can you at this moment
be aware not only of all the things that
are taking place right here externally
and internally but can you also be aware
of yourself
as the awareness in which these things
happen which is not a thought nothing
Joe is thinking it's a sensing of an
aliveness in the background of things
happening in the foreground and when I
say things happening that includes
thoughts thinking thinking happens in
the foreground but when you are aware of
the background as the your very own
presence I say your own because it is
essentially who you are it is being it
is the I am which is timeless
the timeless sense of being in the
background I am being I am and being at
the same worked to be I am first-person
singular of the verb to be I am it is
being can you sense the very being that
you are and
that level you are one with all beings
this is the level of non differentiation
and it is that level from where true
love comes true compassion comes only
when you can feel yourself as the
underlying I am presence now can only do
it now
because it is now it is the now in
essence so yeah that's where freedom
lies
freedom from conditions conditions will
carry on coming and going some good some
bad and that's also where creativity
comes in because through that the very
intelligence that is the I am may
manifest through you that secondary
secondary thing what it manifests I
don't know it varies from person to
person
what does not vary from person to person
is that which underlies the person that
is where the oneness is of all beings
and from there when you sense that you
can look at a forest and sense if you go
to an ancient forest and sense the
sacredness of the forest in yourself the
very presence that you are you feel is
the very same beingness that is the life
in the trees you feel the life the one
life because you are the one life in
whatever manifestation you see the one
life it manifests in billions of forms
in whatever manifestation you see the
one life you reckon
it as yourself and only then can you
sense the essence of the forest or the
essence of an animal or the essence of
another human being and only then is
their true connection and more than
connection realization of oneness and
it's only then that humans are no longer
compelled to fight each other
continuously that's the madness if you
are to cut off from that you everything
is alien to you everything is other
because you only have the form so there
can be no love there can be no empathy
and no compassion no softness and when
you look at a forest you say how much
does it cost if we cut all the trees
what will we get you can't see anything
else forgive them for they know not what
they do
they don't know who they are that's why
they don't know what they do so that is
the fundamental dysfunction in humans
and it's fine that too is part of the
evolution of human consciousness the
shift in consciousness that is happening
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is a movement from predominantly
thinking human beings to predominantly
aware human beings
several thousand years humans have been
completely identified with the movement
of think of thought let's know the Eagle
came into being alienation separation
all illusions come into being since it
happened it was a necessary stage in the
evolution and we are coming to the end
of that stage because thinking keeps you
trapped in form because every thought is
a thought form and most human beings are
compulsive thinkers because their sense
of identity is derived from the movement
of thought they cannot let go of
thinking because to them it would be
equivalent to dying Who am I if I do not
keep reminding myself of myself and my
story and my life my life it's my life
that's a baby it's a huge illusion just
those two words how can you I have do I
have life then there's life and there's
me if I have life there's life and me
and I could lose it and then all that's
left is me no that can't be right
I have live it's what people think they
have alive
because it's an illusion created by
thought they separating themselves from
life and say this is life and that's me
I am live
there's no life apart from I so since I
am life how can I lose life I am a
temporary expression in this form
fleeting of the one formless life so
thinking is compulsive for most humans
and it is an addiction the great
addiction much greater than drugs is the
addiction to thinking most of which is
not only unnecessary but represents an
enormous burden and heaviness in your
life so all of you who are still here
are ready to make that shift which for
most people is gradual for very few it's
sudden the shift from continuously
having to think to experiencing gaps in
the stream of thinking and not I'm not
talking necessarily about money or
meditating meditation is wonderful for
those who feel drawn to meditation not
everybody may feel drawn to meditation
main spiritual practice is daily life
even for meditators and whether how good
you are at meditation 3 hours a day
hours a day don't need to move even the
Buddhist monks I impressed when you can
sit for two hours and some Westerners
have enormous willpower
of course that's not true meditation but
true meditation is of course wonderful
but the main spiritual practice is daily
life as you go about your daily life and
it is there where you experiment with
meeting situations rather than through
thinking through awareness which means
there are periods in your life when you
are doing things without the movement of
thought that accompanies either what
commenting on what you are doing or
experiencing or some completely
different matter while you're doing this
you're thinking about that there are
moments when you can move across the
room go to the bathroom open the door go
to the boss pacing wash your hands dry
your hands and not a single thought has
crossed your mind but you were not lost
you have present with every movement but
it happened in a field of stillness and
if that's too long
then less putting some honey in the tea
no thought and the spoon goes back in
the saucer and all you stir and barn you
stir your tea there's a clear space of
awareness why do you have to fill that
with some kind of thinking it's not
profitable it doesn't help you in any
way if there is something that you need
to apply thought to then you apply
thought but there's a vast amount of
things that actually you can tackle and
be with much greater intelligence if you
do not apply thought but you apply
awareness awareness means you look at
you Asian there's a dismiss conception
about what intelligence is because we
equate intelligence with the movement of
thought and the ability to through
thought dissect situations analyze label
it
remember the labels see how the labels
are related to other labels and so on
there is a deeper intelligence out of
which all creativity comes which is non
conceptual and that in our educational
system is completely unrecognized there
are many children at school who operate
who would operate wonderfully on the non
conceptual level and they are called
slow or even stupid because they do not
have a highly developed conceptual
intelligence to have a deeper
intelligence that is where creativity
comes from Albert Einstein after
graduating was the only person in his
class who couldn't get a job he was a
bit slow of course to be deep you have
to be slow but in this in our
civilization everything is quick give me
an answer so you remain on the surface
you dance around on the surface of life
you never go any to go deeper you has to
come still for a moment and there's an
awareness and you look at a situation
and then if something needs to be said
or done the words come but they come
from a deeper level every therapist who
is effective or anybody who works with
people you can only be effective if you
come from aware if you bring awareness
to is not through thought
it's miraculous even the most conceptual
schools of therapy they'd say you're a
psychoanalyst very you you learn a lot
of stuff about the human mind and you
applied and often those psycho analysts
will become effective after 10 or 15 or
20 years they suddenly get tired of
applying they're continuously applying
what they have learned and they're
simply with the patient in a space of
awareness so be it is our practice as
much as possible think when you have to
think and see if you can be free of
thinking as much as possible in your
daily life which is in many many
situations and of course one thing that
helps enormous Lee in being free of
thinking is to say yes to the present
moment because a lot of the compulsion
to think arises out of the denial of
what is and so through thought you want
to destroy or run away from that you
judge the present moment you run to get
away from it you create fantasy world so
that you get away from this and so on so
that's already a great hell up as you do
that primordial practice that I
described becoming one with what is so
that you are the space and the space is
thoughtless the space is awareness this
is the rising level of consciousness in
you so you have on the surface the mind
created me and then you have something
coming up from underneath pushing which
is awareness the new consciousness wants
to come through sometimes it comes
through the gaps in this thinking
strange and suddenly you feel
alive there's a piece but an alive piece
alert unburdened by the the little me
and its problems don't carry that around
anymore
sopia practice when you're on the bus
and the tube walking from here to there
during this of that just aware but not
thinking it it doesn't matter how long
the length doesn't matter the frequency
is more important how often you allow a
gap in the stream of thinking and the
calf doesn't the calf doesn't need to be
long just and so you become it's like
the density of mind lessons because gaps
are appearing in the mind so you become
actually more intelligent we can call it
as a title by a book by Krishnamurti the
awakening of intelligence and really
that's what it is true intelligence
comes in which is not the ability to
solve IQ tests that is a small aspect of
intelligence but not intelligence itself
now there may be some of you who are
very good at IQ tests and you feel
offended right now and it's fine because
perhaps some of your identity was built
on the fact that you have a very high IQ
if that's the case and you feel some
inner so it can't be right
then you observe that I don't have that
problem because I have never undergone
an IQ test but I am absolutely sure the
result would not be very good my mind
just doesn't work that way Thea
yesterday I picked up in where I'm
staying my friend's house that there's a
book on sugoku
I picked it up I looked at the simplest
one at the very beginning for five
minutes completely meaningless come to
it and the most beautiful thing is if
you can meet other human beings know how
it whether it's a brief encounter or
longer encounter or special in your
relationship predominantly through being
aware rather than think relates through
awareness rather than thinking what does
that look like in practice somebody
comes to you and says something while
you listen there is this space you're
listening you're bringing space to it
you're not preparing what you're going
to say or commenting or what the other
person is saying or thinking about
something totally different
or trying to get out what you want to
get out and say but simply be there as
awareness a space of awareness and
there's a clarity and this is where
human relationship deepens
there's no depths in relationship that
are completely mind dominated the old
thinking and then it's so easy to get
drawn into that especially when when
more than two humans come together the
mind energy starts working and you get
drawn it's like a stream that carries
you along and then he set it in Wow
company you know what you did then you
can't get out of it anymore it's for you
to represent be there s and bring a
different dimension to human interaction
and that I mentioned is not some new
thought of course it's better to have a
good thought than a bad thought but go
deeper and have no thought and so
awareness replaces thinking and where
you still need to think actually your
thinking will be much more focused and
powerful because you're not wasting the
mental abilities in useless thinking it
now can become focused so that is a the
practice of being free of mental noise
be there and when you are aware you are
not a person anymore you're only a
person when you are dominated by
thoughts because the person consists of
thought when you're aware you are there
s not a person but a deeper presence and
this is what the world needs
it doesn't need more clever persons it
doesn't need for you to become more
knowledgeable or even better as persons
many persons have very good intentions
they say I want to become a better
person
of course that's better than wanting to
become a worse person
but it doesn't quite work many people
who are trying to be good people often
do bad things and say how could I have
done that I wanted to be a good person
and I shouted at him again so in its not
improving the person that you are but
going beyond the person that's where the
goodness true goodness comes through you
and then you become compassionate
towards yourself also and towards the
limitations of your little person it's
never going as a person you're not going
to be perfect
there will be shortcomings they saw that
that's fine this is its form you have
your but the non personal dimension is
coming in more and more into your life
you