https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFFuU7ekc28
varun is asking there is a lot of mental
activity not peace how can i improve
this situation the answer is very simple
there is nobody to improve any situation
all that can be done is
awareness of the mental activity and
whatever is disturbing the peace become
aware of it watch it as an observer
silent observer and it will be gone
don't try to stop it don't try to make
it positive don't try to suppress let it
happen in complete awareness
that which is unnecessary will be
dropped
that which is peace is always at peace
and that which is active will always be
active and nothing can be done about it
shift your identification from that
which is not peaceful to the peaceful
one you are the peaceful one and let
everything else happen naturally this is
the trick
what do we say is everything that
happens is perfect
let us see
somebody becomes sick somebody gets a
disease that is perfect
isn't it given the situations given the
events given everything that is must
happen so it is perfect but from the
point of view of that person was it
really necessary you said it is
necessary things happen because they are
necessary for the survival so is the
disease necessary for the survival
perfection and the necessity for
survival and so on we say that
everything that this creature does is
for
survival so probably you're thinking
that now why there are negative things
it is doing when it all it wants is
surviving peacefully happily so the
negative activity is also for survival
only it is not harmful for survival
for example pain in the body why is it
there what will happen if you don't get
pain when you are
hurt or when you are scratched or burned
what will happen can anybody answer me
what will happen if there is no pain in
the body and
the
suffering of the mental kind is also
pain it is signaling something something
is wrong somebody insulted you and now
all the negative thoughts that is pain
signals yes we've been saying for
attention on that particular part yeah
is it not necessary for survival is the
pain in the body not necessary for
survival
yeah rajit is saying that specific part
will be ignored if it is bleeding you
won't even come to know it is bleeding
if there is no pain and the creature
will die in five minutes the pain stops
the creature creatures does something
for the pain to relieve the pain for
example if eating something hurts your
stomach you're not going to eat it again
if it doesn't hurt death is certain
yes shreya is saying trigger to attain
the problem body is a layer in the mind
as you know body is not physical is pain
physical no pain is totally non-physical
how can something physically produce a
non-physical pain people don't
understand these things it is
non-physical and the mind is
also non-physical and it is producing
these non-physical signals of
emotions
thoughts do something about this
situation somebody insulted you now kill
that fellow because he can kill you in
future why fights begin as insults
your causal body knows this thing before
fight there is usually an insult so it
prepares the creature for the coming
danger
it is survival only from the point of
view of
the
an intelligent person it is totally
unnecessary totally unnecessary so what
happens when you are aware you can the
intellect can catch it that oh this is
the signal it is not real pain actually
there is no need to act on it and then
the thoughts they die out this is what
i'm saying the peace is restored and you
can do it even when there is pain in the
body and even when there is some kind of
other suffering you can do it even when
there is excitement in the body and
there is positive
environment in the mind that can also go
away that is also not peace so it is
restored
all these events are absolutely perfect
the bad events the perfect
the pain they cause
mental bodily they're perfect and you
coming in awareness and restoring the
peace perfect
we say that it happens because of
necessity necessity probably there you
got confused perfection is due to
necessity this must happen but
what i'm saying here is not that kind of
thing we are talking totally from a
relative point of view where some things
are totally unnecessary they need not be
tolerated as they are you can do
something to fix it like varun was
asking how can i improve the situation
he is not talking at the absolute level
of the brahman where everything is okay
perfect so and in the relative sense we
can sense that it is not perfect and
then we do something to make it perfect
this whole process is perfection only
attention shifting has not happened for
me so i would like to ask where do you
want to shift the attention
attention is given to an experience
whatever you are saying is i want to
remember business that's all you're
saying business is not an experience so
all you can do is you can shift your
attention to this your knowledge that
everything is as it is but that's not
going to be of much help business is
always there even if you're not
attending or if you do not you're not
knowing it if you're not remembering it
business is the non-dual state we call
it experiencing we don't usually call it
business so probably in the blog there
are different words are used but
when we talk from the point of view of
the program i always recommend that you
use the words and that are in the
program isn't it
because the blog may be saying something
from in some other context some other
perspective using some other philosophy
some other words blog is not your
program remember this
what is the technique given in our
videos
to become aware forget about business
buddhism remember who you are remember
you that you are the
experiencer abide as that everything
that is happening is an experience not
happening to me it is happening to this
other experiences
if it is necessary something must be
done about it like i was saying which
your body it will react
mind will react it will do something let
it happen why should we stop it if it is
unnecessary the awareness is going to
kill it
your attention practice is not awareness
practice
isn't it attend
to the event and then become aware shift
your attention to the event not to
anything else there is nothing else to
shift to you cannot attend to the
experiencer you cannot attend to the
awareness you can only attend to
experiences now the attention as soon as
it is drawn you should come in that in
awareness that is what is the practice
about
of attention if you're not even paying
attention then there is no chance of
awareness coming up
this is called sleeping state where the
attention is so scattered that
the person is almost sleeping there at
least when you start attending sit down
or stop and see even without awareness
you do this that triggers the awareness
that is the attention practice
people are you know and always in a
hurry of some kind of scene always
moving always
scattered and they cannot attend to
anything and then there is no awareness
there is a chance of awareness even
after knowledge how can they even get
knowledge of any kind there is no
attention so we it recommend attention
practice and
you cannot shift your attention to the
experiencer it is not an experience what
is the definition of attention exclusion
of all experiences except one and you
cannot therefore because it is related
to early experiences you cannot attend
to the experiencer and business is also
not an experience it is that which is
you can attend to this thought that what
is is okay but that is a thought it's
not is-ness
that which is okay is not going to bring
peace of any kind unless there is
awareness then i am not all these things
like there are people now why is
they can say why is this business why is
this emptiness causing suffering to me
now you can see a lot of ignorance there
a lot of ignorance not only they have
mixed the levels of knowledge duality
into non-duality and illusion into
non-duality so all mix up plus no
understanding plus they don't know what
to do it's a tremendous amount of
catastrophe that's all so
it is very
necessary to know all these words not
use them without thinking plus
know the correct way to silence the mind
there is nobody who can silence the mind
there is nobody who can shift the
attention where are you shifting that
engine there is nobody to do that become
aware
attention will be gone to you know
wherever it wants to go it will go there
it's okay at least there is there will
be attention and then there will be
awareness
awareness will do its job the intellect
will do its job if it does not who cares
let it be noisy all experiences are only
noise we call it vibration can you stop
it
just noise
you are silence
can you stop that no you're already
silenced this recognition is awareness
oh it is all exactly that which it
should be
and this is business
so very easy you see
sweetie is saying is it not being aware
of things the only problem that disturbs
us
actually it is a problem but
it does not disturb the experiencer at
all it is happy without being aware it
is that which is
so it has no problems and why would your
intellect have the problem because the
intellect should know that
yeah the
the fundamental that is the uh the
existence that has no problem with it
but the one
who is seeking to know that for that
being the not being aware is the only
disturbance that's what i meant like we
can't
know
who we exactly are until and unless we
become aware of what's going on because
the mind has got itself used to all the
distractions throughout the ages and
that's the only thing that keeps us away
from knowing the true nature of
ourselves that's what i meant yes yes
right
so it is a problem that we are not aware
and the solution is very simple
knowledge is the solution be in
knowledge remember people think
awareness is a very
uh
difficult practice actually it is the
simplest people want difficult practices
because they cannot accept the simplest
so
it was a problem for me also when i was
not
you can say ready when i was not even
practicing my mind also said my
intellect said no
there is no use of it you need something
which works that is what my intellect
told this will not work so
it searched for something very very
complicated like the occult practices
and all but awareness is very simple it
works
the you can say the problem is
understanding what is what it means to
be aware so like we have seen an example
behavior is not changing but that does
not that is not awareness practice at
all i have seen one thing that those who
understood the
teachings perfectly they have no problem
at all with the awareness and they don't
even mind that it is not there or it is
there if it goes away they don't have
any problem with it and when it comes
obviously no problem
so how to achieve that carelessness
you must be thinking first it tells me
to become aware then it tells me to
be careless these are steps yes we are
taking you through the steps why do
people get tangled into because of
misunderstanding and yes you see that
can happen so i see a relation between
attention and awareness and i see that
there is in probably need to fix the
attention and then i recommend okay do
this attention practice for five minutes
and then people stretch it to five hours
no awareness
what happened so
it is
to be understood that
um
what is uh what is the goal of the
practice otherwise you will
get stuck in the minor things
then i say okay awareness 24 by 7 and
then they become very very serious that
it is not 24 by 7. now become careless
after that once you have tasted the
awareness few times there will be a
natural attraction to remem remain aware
like he was saying that i cannot
do it there is a lot of mental noise
distraction and so on
why has that happened because very new
you are very new in the practice it is
perfectly okay let let this thing
taste the awareness and it will
gravitate towards awareness bring more
um occasions of awareness in your life
find excuses to be aware distract
yourself with awareness become lazy with
awareness today i am going to do only
awareness no work usually
you can turn your negativity into
positivity like this
there are two kinds of people know
people hate world and then they turn to
spirituality like an escape from the
world nothing happens and then the
people and people know world today only
spirituality then everything happens
correctly properly it looks like both
are negative but the second one the
negativity has been turned into
positivity after this is achieved do you
care if there is world if there is a
worldly life
if there are relatives if there is job
if there is something going on wars or
diseases do you worry about that
careless
then the
spiritual becomes material
when you are careless the material
becomes spiritual and the spiritual
becomes material there is no difference
between the life and spirituality now
that difference is also artificial so
same way we should not perceive any
difference in the later stages of
awareness practice there comes a time
when we don't perceive any difference
between awareness and unawareness the
awareness is there whenever it wants to
be there and the rest of the time seems
as if there is an awareness but that is
simply forgetting
i need to do something about it you
forget to do that it is always as a
background that happens with practice
you see takes time the only um
mistake you can make is that not
understand the practice correctly or to
get tangled into its different stages oh
i like this one much better we'll do the
awareness next week and the next week
never comes or we jump into the
projections or i want something in the
dream now we'll do the waking street
practices next month nothing comes in
the dream no awareness in the dream
so ignoring the practice and getting
tangled into small things
that can go wrong it has to be very very
simple natural desire to be aware
intention can you be aware no you can
only hold an intention to be aware rest
is the mechanical process like setting
up the alarm intention is the only
willful thing we can do and the rest is
it happens automatically
the sign of progress
on step number four or
this kind of practices
is that the practice is dropped if you
see that you are adding to the practices
oh i want to do this
second number two i want to do that also
three this and four that and now my diet
another family now my job the list is
growing and then something is wrong it
should reduce and it should become zero
finally there should not be any practice
what can the guru do
the guru can only point that you know
something is wrong sit down think about
it the guru cannot practice for you you
see on the path of knowledge we clear
doubts we answer questions isn't it so
answering questions is all we can do in
satsang and all the practice must be
done by the individual so the guru
cannot
do practice on your behalf the guru is
mostly useless when you're practicing
you see
most i can do is set up a intention for
you
which is already there it's already
there
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