Imagine that there is a very precious stone that has thousands of facets.
Each facet,
Each face is unique.
And yet,
Each facet,
Each face has the total stone,
The total gem behind it.
Yet,
It is inseparable.
You are like this facet.
Behind you is the totality.
Like the facet cannot be separate from the totality,
You are one.
Behind you cannot merely be a person.
Look how weak this great silence in you is.
It cannot be created.
It can only really be discovered.
Even practice by itself is not enough.
Because if it is the result of practice,
It will come and go.
But if it is revealed through understanding and grace,
It is your very nature.
This silence is not different from peace.
It is not different from wisdom.
It is not apart from love.
It is inseparable from Truth,
Or God.
Don't give it to your mind to convert into an image.
The activities of the senses,
Thought,
Sensations,
Emotions,
Memories,
They are a flow.
Your Self is not a flow.
Yet,
Without you,
Neither movement nor stillness can be perceived.
See if this is true.
Be empty of everything now.
Do not hold on even to the sense,
I.
To whom do I speak?
Don't imagine emptiness.
Simply do not identify with a single thing.
Emptiness is here.
There is an emptiness which is not the opposite of fullness.
Actually,
It has no word.
We are here.
Why leave everything to find this?
Keep nothing,
Even for one moment,
And you will know.
For until you are established in the Source,
Desires will keep on arising and burning in you.
Fear will come.
Separation will find a place in you.
Restlessness.
Personhood will come.
Leave everything.
Be one moment totally without,
Beyond even the concept of without-ness.
But be here completely.
Because even here,
There can be a subtle sense of fear.
But it is not real.
It is not true.
A remnant of old imaginings.
Be confirmed in this.
Look now and see.
Now you should be in the heart of your own Self.
It is not a picture.
It has no shape.
It is beyond time.
Don't be a visitor here.
Where you truly are,
You have never left.
Where you imagine,
There you go.
Here is the birthplace of love and peace.
Is there any effort to be?
If I say,
Is there any effort to be here?
The subtle sense of a location is formed,
And the mind begins to struggle.
But when I say,
Is there any effort to be?
You are already here.
Did you arrive?
Truly,
Did you arrive?
That which is here and your Self are one.
Did you arrive?
That which comes and goes is observed to come and go.
Is it you?
Your inner work is to confirm this with love,
So that when the things of the mind come,
The activities of life and the world,
And the traffic of experiencing begins,
You will not be afraid.
You will not judge.
And you will know yourself to be the heart of them.
So this is the true yoga of life.
When seeing and being are one,
What you are hearing,
Your very being should be confirming.
Let mind and being be one.
Touch the person,
And they become two,
And more.
Be without waiting or anticipating.
Find your peace here.
