Non-doing, Equanimity, Higher Layer of Mind

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no doer means just observe or witness

see doer or no doer

the observing and witnessing is always

happening you cannot say no i won't

observe now

i want witness now it is not possible to

say that so and the concept of no doer

is simply

not entertaining the concept of do

worship

no doership does not mean

doing something

so i hope you got it

got the answer

just

do not entertain

the idea of doership

then the witnessing is happening anyway

you see

if you say no i don't want to be a doer

i want to be witness well that is

pushing too much

is unnatural

because the observing and witnessing is

happening anyway

don't try to do

not doing

it it does not work like this

now you can see a little bit of funny

thing here that the concept of doership

is so deep in the mind that people want

to do the non doer thing

is it possible

no

and there is an interesting story again

very small story

i heard somewhere from some foreigner

who visited south india

and not south india he visited sri lanka

he was very interested in buddhism there

and he was very excited oh i'm doing the

greatest thing in the world now and

i'll become a monk

so he went to the uh

whatever place there is

and

met the llama whatever they are called

the head he he expressed his wish i to

become i want to become monk

and i want to learn meditation and all

so he told the procedures and all these

things that you will and he agreed you

know without asking without even

listening to the full thing and told

them just teach me the meditation the

fellow there and told him sit down okay

now breathe

i say yes okay now what

no nothing

and that person he was a western person

and

the idea of non-doing is totally alien

to them

so meditation is something we should do

in the west isn't it

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i get this question how to do the

meditation and then i don't know where

to start so

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he's doing i'm breathing yes now what

he said no

nothing

just do this

and

the

newcomer was totally confused

i came from thousands of miles to do

nothing

and

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the llama said yes exactly

so this is the story you know what it

means

you cannot do nothing

don't try to do nothing

it's not possible

this movement is all there is

it is fleeting it is chaotic

it's going away

you cannot grasp it

and that is the only beauty

that it has

to make it permanent

and

well

it becomes ugly it becomes a burden

so on

and you can now apply this knowledge in

everyday life and check what happens

see what happens

when you stop

trying to oppose the flow of the things

so this broke down that broke down he

said this and they'd say well these

things are the most beautiful things

that are happening no i don't want these

to happen i want others to happen

and immediately realize that this is the

projection of the mind

when the other things happen

they will be beautiful

they will be as beautiful

as perfect

as it is actually i habitually use the

word beautiful because sundaram is a

direct translation of sundaram

satyam shivam sundaram

so the english proper english word is

perfection because when i say beautiful

you imagine something beautiful

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the pile of garbage is also perfection

you see

so

it is

perfect as it is

because it cannot be anything else it

cannot be permanent

it cannot be that which the mind is

projecting

and so you you say okay i'll stop

projection and now the projection is

also perfect

just realize that your mind has

projected something beautiful

this hope

this wish

this desire is also perfect

now now suddenly you will find there is

a change in the mind

the background of the mind will become

peaceful it will also become perfect

yes there is a desire yes okay fine

let it be there

no i need to run okay if i do then yes

that's what

is perfect

there will be peace there will be

background of peace and satisfaction and

that's what we call equanimity

equanimity is not the absence of

mental activities you can achieve that

kind of equanimity if you want

sit down one place and then

just observe the mind flowing

do nothing

and it will settle down and equanimity

it will come out again this mind

so the mind is equanimous not equanimous

the being is always

both

so being is beyond these things the true

nature you cannot apply these words to

the true true nature

it is infinitely peaceful

and so infinitely troubled

is both

so

you can do that by sitting but that's

not the coin that's kind of net practice

you're practicing

you're training the mind

and the real one is when there is

everything is going on this fish market

of the mind is on

and that is

equanimity and that happens when you

realize that everything is fleeting

this is the noise of the river

it is flowing it's chaotic

and that brings the real equanimity

there's the whole teaching

at least i interpret like this

so there is no way to achieve equanimity

this cannot be done

the only way is the negative way of

clearing out

the projections of the mind

not taking them seriously too seriously

this these are the words of

some great teacher that i'm forgetting

name

but probably he everybody uses these

words now don't take the mind too

seriously

you are taking the life too seriously

and there is another very good um quote

that

a man suffers

because he is taking that seriously

which the gods have made for fun

you must have heard this

very popular on twitter

what did the gods made for fun

well

there is fun only when things are

changing isn't it so impermanence

we don't want thing to be impermanent

and that's why we suffer the

impermanence is perfection actually

if somebody wants want me to create

something i'll create it

an impermanent way it must be your own

experience that when you watch a movie

well the movie is kind of there is a

speed there in the movie if nothing

happens in the movie you don't want to

watch it

there is a flow in the movie that's why

you are engaged there you know nail

biting movies

now take poster of that movie and hang

it on your wall

one day today well looks

nice you see

it looks cool

after that you'll stop looking at the

poster

i'll tell you one secret in my house

there is not even one picture that

somebody came and commented actually

your house

very minimalistic and i said is that an

insult

is it no no

but there's nothing to look at

and i actually did not answer but it is

my experience

as soon as i put something there it

became extremely boring after two days

extremely boring now i don't want to

look at this thing

so there is nothing the walls are empty

so i i want you to do this experiment

you see a live minimalistic kind of

design

only that which is very very much needed

throw away everything that is for the

show so it is it was my experience and

you should experiment a little bit

have you seen those um

compartments in

japan

made up of bamboo and paper what is

there in it

is there a shivering

is there a big statue of kali is there

nothing actually

sometimes just leaves a bamboo or

something is painted

very very minimalistic circle

what do you call it

and so

something like that

so

why is that

there are different reasons but the um

good reason according to me is that

the blank the emptiness

is more beautiful

than something which limits it

when you hang a painting on your wall

you have limited the possibility to that

painting isn't it

you made it permanent

so let's bring our minds

into the higher layers

now for intellect

and even higher awareness

because

the daily routine

the mind functions in the lower layers

so there is a very good method to bring

it to the higher layers it is by

thinking about spiritual matters it is

by

asking a question

contemplating

remembering

so i use these methods a lot

some people may want to use a mantra or

can

a statue or something

that puts

that person the ritual

puts the mind

on higher layers instantly so satsang is

a time when

we push the mind to

intellect and beyond

and

probably the whole day will be spent

like this

if you are in a two hour or three hour

so probably we cannot do it every day

which you will need to do it

according to your own ritual

set up your own ritual

satsang is

assisted ritual

so on the path of knowledge because we

do not meditate nothing

we expect the seeker to be always on the

higher side

to be to be always beyond intellect

so there are nothing and no

rituals mentioned on the path of

knowledge

if you find that you cannot achieve

that state of mind

which is conducive for the spiritual

growth

then you can invent your own ritual

there is no harm

at least for beginners

you can take

help of

yogic postures

breathing pranayama

meditation

dhaan

all these techniques are for all

seekers not only for seekers of that

particular

tradition

everybody can use it if you know how to

use it

to know how to use it

you must get some training from a

trainer a guru

or if you can do something very very

light sit down and watch the breathing

pattern

that is

enough sometimes to stop the mind from

abiding in the lower layers the chatter

of the mind will stop there

it mind won't stop and let's not do that

mistake

mind cannot be stopped its specific

activities can be stopped many people

try to

stop their mind by standing on one feet

and torturing the body

and that's a stupidity

because on the path of knowledge you are

now introduced to the mind

you should know

that stopping of the mind is impossible

it will never stop

what happens is the activity shifts from

one layer to another

so if the lower layers they stop

people assume oh my my mind has stopped

now the activity is going on in the

causal body and other bodies

cannot stop your perception will not

will not stop

all there is is the mind it cannot stop

so

let us not make this mistake of stopping

the mind

you can only shift the activity from the

lower layers

to the higher layers

so i i hope

just by talking like this

your mind has already shifted to the

higher layers

you can check

the usual

mess of the mind the garbage in the mind

is gone

for most of you it's very effective

method all you need to put all you need

to do

put the mind into

a job give it a task

which involves higher layers

and it's like a very good servant it

will do that and by you i mean the

intellect

the intellect should be in command the

command center

should be in command

not the body or the lower centers

they need to be active only when needed

when not needed

well

should rest or do something

which the body and mind likes like

watering the plant cleaning the house

nobody likes it i think

do listen to the music something like

this

this is totally different world we are

living in

so

probably your servants to clean the

house and wash your clothes and all

but somebody who lives alone like in a

jungle

these options are not available

so what i do is i do my daily work while

trying to be

aware

i don't even push the mind to the higher

layers

let it do whatever it's doing

and become aware of that

the awareness takes care of everything

you see

when you are situated at the aggya

everything else behaves properly

this must be your indirect experience

isn't it

so this was a tip hopefully that will be

useful

uh whatever you are doing

become aware of that and then

you will be always for most of the time

will be

on the

higher layers

it does not mean that the activity at

the lower layers totally stops no it can

continue

the body can keep doing whatever it is

doing

mind can keep thinking the ego even the

ego can function the i didn't identity

can function

as long as it functions under the

command center

in the intellect and higher awareness

it's okay

what is wrong in that

what is happening is for an ordinary

person the higher layers are not so

active and the lower layers are like

in behaving in a rogue fashion

they are behaving in

like a unmanaged

office

where

you must have seen those offices when

the boss is not there

everything is a mess in that office

nobody works

so

i had the

fortune of

working in such an office

so every time i went out people also

went out they did their own jobs they

did their own thing

as as long as i am there everything

worked

so it was very frustrating it was very

frustrating

nobody will come to the office

until i am there

they come exactly one or two minutes

behind me

because no need no need to work if

nobody's asking them to work

so and the lower layers are like this

they are they lack motivation

they are programmed to do

whatever is the default behavior

so it needs to be always under the

control

not the obsessive control you cannot use

a hunter a whip

stick to control them

it's not healthy way

it needs to be done only for a severely

defective mind

for only for an afflicted mind mental

disorders

then you need to take those heavy

steps heavy

what you call corrective measures

for an ordinary mind

simple motivation is needed that's all

be present and everything will work

don't leave the office

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it is okay if they are working it's okay

if they stop working then you need to

worry isn't it the identity stops

working then it becomes a big mess

and

happens to many people

if the lower layers the anger and fear

stop working

lust stops working it becomes a total

disaster

for

that human being

the higher layers that they are not

concerned with such functions if they

are working is okay not working is okay

but body and the ego

they need to be maintained they need to

be healthy

so many people have this and this

misconception i need to get rid of body

i need to get rid of ego

and

that comes because of the half knowledge

they heard it somewhere

they heard a 10 minutes video on youtube

look at your ego it's dreadful thing get

rid of it and then you will become

spiritual that's the end of the video

the videos don't tell you everything

you see

so

even the books won't tell you

this detail

because it's a matter of practice

it's a matter of

implementation of the teachings there

are teachings

and then there is implementation of the

teaching

now you need to be practical

it happened to me that i recognize this

very very late

this needs to be recognized first

that the body and mind and ego and all

these the society in the world

is here for some reason

yes it's all false

no doubt about it

it's all

non-existent

still there is a false reason behind it

what is that reason

we need to find out surely it is not

to destroy water has been created isn't

it

and that is that will if you assume like

this it will be

it will be in disaster

because you heard somewhere mukti mukti

mukti and then you want mukti and then

and they will tell you it is cessation

of the mind

no more birth

and instantly

the destructive pictures come in your

mind

destructive ideas come in your mind

okay it's all

maya

let it go to hell

i'm going somewhere else

where will you go

is there a place to go

in the totality when you are the

totality

is there a place to go anywhere

this is all there is

cannot go anywhere and therefore

acceptance

therefore we accept this life this body

this mind this ego

and

the koscielny

is to live

with

the experience instead of rejecting the

experience

this is the

art

the art of living

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