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Imagine

Imagine, just for a moment, instead of being the one who learned playing in this world, you’d be the world allowing this being to simply rest.

Imagine, just for a moment, instead of being driven by your various agendas, you’d be the center letting those agendas passing by.

Imagine, just for a moment, instead of trying to be spiritually aware of every experience, you’d be awareness itself granting all the trying its freedom.

Imagine, just for a moment, instead of feeling in a particular way, you’d be leaving all ways behind and resting in the bliss of no-way.

Imagine, just for a moment, instead of becoming more or less or different, you’d be simple pure presence without any need to move away from that.

Imagine, just for a moment, instead of doing anything, you’d be just being.

Imagine, just for a moment, instead of trying to be the one who’s attaining freedom, you’d be that freedom that’s smiling at the one who’s trying.

Imagine, just for a moment…

Where is the ego?

• Teacher: Once you start following one thought, there you are.
• Student: You mean as soon as I'm thinking about a thought, that's called ego?
• Teacher: All the thoughts are innocent. Just when you start interpreting a thought, when you look at it as if it's real, then you're developing what you'd call an ego.
• Student: No thought is real?
• Teacher: How could it possibly be real? A thought is just a thought. Its content is irrelevant. It can never be the real thing. It's just thinking about what you imagine the real thing may be.
• Student: And thinking yourself from one thought to another, this creates ego?
• Teacher: Yes and no. Yes, you're creating the illusion of what you'd call an ego. And no, really, that ego-thing is just another imagination. Nobody could ever come up with the ego so far. Where is it? Show it to me if you can.

Why the world is insane...

• Student: Why is the world suffering?
• Teacher: Separation.
• Student: Why can't it just be stopped?
• Teacher: Because the eyes see everything but not themselves.
• Student: The eyes see suffering.
• Teacher: Pull them out, turn them back, and let them see from where they are seeing.
• Student: Turning back to myself?
• Teacher: The world is lost because everybody is looking away from the source of lostness, from the struggler.
• Student: It starts with oneself?
• Teacher: Everybody is looking around for solutions. Nobody is looking inside.
• Student: It appears all too separate.
• Teacher: Everybody is breathing and takes it for granted. Nobody is seeing that everybody is just breathing. Is the breath separate from you?
• Student: I'm not thinking much about it.
• Teacher: That's ignorance. The world is insane because of ignorance. People are ignorant of themselves and don't know themselves. They only see otherness where there's unity.
• Student: So again the question 'Who am I'?
• Teacher: That's the only question of any importance. Before you don't know who you are, what other question could be relevant.
• Student: Nobody is asking this question?
• Teacher: Everybody is pretending to know who one is. Almost nobody is seriously interested then, since the pretense is doing its job.
• Student: If one looked inside, the world would become a saner place?
• Teacher: If one looked inside, one would see the world as an illusion, and the actors in this world as being insanely entangled in it. But one would also see wholeness, that there's no other, no separation, and that ultimately there's freedom. Because the truth is: Only the world you imagine to know is insane. But that's not the real world.

Reality is…

 

…bigger than any thought you may have

…closer than any feeling you may sense

…truer than any religion you may follow

…more you than any notion you may carry about yourself

…more here and now than any moment you may remember

…so very much alive…

…so incredibly obvious…

…so deeply burning inside yourself…

…so real…

…loving…

…free…