Libertad Live

Nothingness

There is nothing. But that nothingness is right in front of you. And you are that nothingness. It’s already so. Being allows that nothingness to be revealed to you. Doing is focusing down awareness on something.

Something is included in that nothingness that you are.

So the question in spiritual circles has always been: Being or doing?

Being is life as it is. It includes all the doing. Once you see that there’s no doer around and doing is just happening within nothingness, you got it. You used your mind to find out what you are. The mind returned empty-handed and couldn’t find anything since the one who you are looking for is the one who’s doing all the looking.

You are it already.

What you are is a mystery. It’s always limited through body and mind. Both are illusions. ‘You’ is an illusion. The words are temporary bubbles. Everything is illusion. There’s nothing there. And that nothingness is the greatest no-thing, the best no-result, that could ever happen.

You are free. Each step is nobody moving through nothingness. Nothingness allows you to take the next step. Completely free, light, innocent.

The greatest possible space is what you are. All the experiences are included, all the sense perceptions. At any moment. Ever since. Undying. Unborn. Untouched. 

Free…

Egoic flatland

• Student: Why is THAT almost always missed?
• Teacher: It's very subtle and consciousness plays very coarse at times: Just look around, feel what other people are into, if what is already here is recognized at all.
• Student: So there's some sort of reluctance to fall into that happiness of this moment.
• Teacher: There's the choice to either staying in egoic flatland and being trapped in one's own movie or to being just this unknown mystery that you are. If you choose egoland it's flat, scary, untrue. But if you simply be what you are than you may notice that what is living your life is the greatest mystery.
• Student: Ego is a story, always anxious to lose itself.
• Teacher: Yes. Ego is illusory insanity. If you ego yourself into existence - and for most people that's the only thing they're doing - then you're missing your life.
• Student: But what is life?
• Teacher: Being is life, doing is non-life. Be quiet and let the world play its games, fleeting, temporary, momentary, falling apart, losing it, pretending to hold on forever. Being is so open and multidimensional that everything arising within egoic flatland is actually absurd, is limiting and contradicting itself.
• Student: Does it need compassion to fight egoland and its illusions?
• Teacher: What you are is such an open great space that a little thought of fighting anything is just evaporating into nothing. And you know yourself as that nothingness that is the bottom line of all those words here.
• Student: The 'me' is gone, the 'I-thought' is seen as illusory, but the body is moving through flatland, is bumping into egos all the time.
• Teacher: Who cares? Nothing. Who wants to have it otherwise? Nothing. Who is just staying where one is? Nothing.
• Student: I'm nothing but...
• Teacher: ...how to be?
• Student: Yes.
• Teacher: Have you ever done anything without being? All along the only consistency in your life is 'being'. All the becoming is nonsense. All the struggle is illusion. Just be! It's very simple! There's no way other than to just be. Be quiet for just a moment and you'll know who you are. Be your own mystery.

Be that peace of mind

• Student: How can I be of service?
• Teacher: Be that peace of mind.
• Student: How is it done? How can there be peace of mind?
• Teacher: It already is. No way to make it.
• Student: I'm sitting at Starbucks and all of a sudden a homeless man is pushing his cart by. How can there be peace?
• Teacher: Peace is at any moment. The man, the face, the feeling, the cart, the moving, the thinking about it, the distraction, the contrast, the suddenness, the story around it, the distance, the closeness, the helplessness, the curiosity, the craziness, the injustice - and then there's something sublime underneath that doesn't need any words at all.
• Student: But how to not getting sucked in? This day they also played extremely loud and noisy music.
• Teacher: It all comes out of nothing, stays for a little while, and then it's gone. There's not a noise in contrast to the stillness, but actually the subtle silence of this moment is giving space to the noise. The noise is temporarily welcome and then it disappears back into the silence. What does not need any effort?
• Student: The silence.
• Teacher: Can that silence ever be disturbed?
• Student: Just by some thoughts about it.
• Teacher: But even the thoughts are just happening within that silence. Silence is peace. It's what is without any effort. It's within everything and everybody and at any moment. It's what is true. It's always innocent and fresh. It's already here and ever-present, with our without giving attention to it.
• Student: Is it the awareness of this moment?
• Teacher: It is also awareness but it doesn't need awareness to be this moment. It's all-inclusive. The awareness is simply included. It's not to be described other than being the one truth that is already happening now. So you are not even to 'be that peace of mind' but 'peace of mind' is already happening and your idea about yourself is included in it. In reality it's all one and there's no distance between your idea about yourself and everything and everybody. The 'I' you thought to be is nowhere to be found. The mind is silent. And the deep knowledge of this moment reveals the silence as the one truth.

It is what you are

It is silence. It is stillness. It is at any moment. It’s untouched. It’s what you are.

It’s allowing. It’s embracing. It’s smiling. It’s completely free. It’s what you are.

It’s not to be found. It’s not to be lost. It’s without seeking. It’s without seeker. It’s what you are.

It’s closer than your skin. It’s lighter than your breath. It’s neither inside nor outside. It’s in between. It’s what you are.

It’s truer than true.

It’s without words.

Already.

Smiling.

You.

A world of struggle

• Student: How to deal with the world?
• Teacher: With a smile.
• Student: What if struggle occurs?
• Teacher: Ask to whom it occurs and search the one.
• Student: How do I cope with betrayal?
• Teacher: See the smallest thing in front of you in the moment of utter injustice. It can be a morsel of dust, a glimpse of light, a hushed look of attraction. The smallest thing will do it. And you're just focusing on that. Give all of yourself to that. And then see what's real. Is it the thought about betrayal or is it what is presenting itself in that moment of giving all of your attention.
• Student: Does it need strength?
• Teacher: Forget about yourself and just be in the moment. No strength is needed. Your breathing is more than enough. Be that peace of mind.