Sailor Bob

[Guest guest]

from: http://members.austarmetro.com.au/~adamson7/Page_4x.html

 

Bob: Just be confident in knowing that nothing can ever toss you away from

that

essence that you are. Whatever is appearing - thoughts, emotions, dramas of

this sort or that, nothing can ever push you away from your essence.

 

Nothing can ever be added to it, nothing can be taken away from it.

 

In knowing that, just allow that confidence to grow.

 

 

 

Text from meeting on May 14th

 

 

 

Q: Somehow, what we have talked about hasn't challenged the 'I', it seems

 

to need to be challenged.

 

 

 

Drop everything we have talked and thought about and just sit there now.

 

Is there awareness there?

 

 

 

Q: Yes.

 

 

 

Full stop!

 

 

 

Q: Just like that.

 

 

 

You see we immediately want to rush into the thought because to the mind

that

awareness is no thing.

 

Mind is full of sensations and reasoning and this that and the other.

 

It is a wonderful display of thoughts feelings and emotions. But cut all

that away.

 

That awareness, to the mind is no thing, it is ungraspable ­ but it is

clear, it is

empty, it is lucid and it is pulsating through you right now as that

livingness.

 

 

 

Q: But all of us are experiencing that awarenessŠ

 

 

 

You are that awareness.

 

 

 

Q: Yes and thought comes and goes, like what we are thinking and talking

about

here but none of it at the moment is being referred to the self centre

necessarily

but thought still happens.

 

 

 

Yes of course, everything is still being registered. The cars going by, the

movements in the room, it is all still functioning. Simple bring the focus

back ­

you are that awareness ­ instead of focusing 'out there' on what is

appearing

on the mind -- which we are conditioned to do ­ just come back to what you

really are, that awareness which is no thing and expand that and you realize

that

it is space like, using the metaphor space like awareness. Just like the

space

that encompasses the car that just passed by ­ does the sound come to you or

does the space enclose it. Looking from this space like awareness you can't

even see a head or ears -- so is there a place that the sound comes to you?

 

 

 

Q: No, that's right.

 

 

 

But the hearing is happening -- and you realize that the vastness of space

encompasses it all. The vastness of awareness is encompassing all those

sounds

­ not out there or in here ­ just a pure hearing ­ a pure functioning.

 

(pause)

 

 

 

Q: How is it that one isn't satisfied with that.

 

 

 

Because it is very subtle ­ we are used to the sensations ­ we continue to

look

out there for bigger and better sensations. Or an imagination of a big bang

or

some such thing as enlightenment ­ or Realization ­ 'in the future I'll get

it' or

'Oh! won't it be wonderful' and all sorts of imaginings about what it will

be like.

That is what we continue to look for. So, stay with the subtleness of it.

 

As Nisargadatta says "my silence sings and my emptiness is full" and it

does,

you feel it vibrating and pulsating through you ­ very subtly.

 

There is a sense of joy. It is not a highly emotional state or something

that will

burn you out. Stay with the subtle vibrancy ­ you will start to know what it

is

like.

 

Nothing can toss you from there ­ nothing can touch you.