Satsang Notes 12-16-15

You can’ t have a problem without a thought. -Michael JeffreysAnother name for ME is TENSION

You are naturally relaxed, but the mind comes in and that's the end of relaxed! The me is anenergetic thought that has the quality of tension to it. The me is constantly stressed. The me doesn'tknow from chill out.The imaginary me believes it is more special than any other imaginary me!But when you try to actually find the me, it’ s no where to be found. Yet it seems to exist. How cansomething not exist and yet seem to exist? By imagination.

IMAGINE (verb) : to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses) . To thinkor believe (again, two things which are not actually present to the senses) .

Thoughts aren’t around long enough to be anything.Thoughts are fleeting and insubstantial. It’ s dissapearing as it’s appearing!!If you are truly watchful, each thought will dissolve at the moment that it appears.-Annamalai SwamiYou cannot prove your own thoughts. Because no one else has them but you. -Michael Jeffreys

(Confirm this for yourself: Can you actually find a thought?? If the answer is no, then to believe athought is to believe in something that literally doesn’ t exist. Can you actually find a “me”? If not, thanthe “me” is imaginary.)If you can understand that this 'little self' never at any time had any existence outside yourimagination, you will not be concerned about ways and means of getting rid of it.-Annamalai Swami

What is left when it is seen in one’s own direct experience that thoughts dissolve into nothing??Effortless chillness... effortless relaxedness... Peace.

When the false is taken for the Real, the Real remains obscurred: The Rope Snake AnalogyIf you see the rope as a snake, the real nature of the rope is hidden from you. If you only see the rope,the snake is not there. When you have that clear and correct perception that the snake never at anytime existed, the question of how to kill the snake disappears. Apply this analogy to the 'little self' thatyou are worrying about. If you can understand that this 'little self' never at any time had anyexistence outside your imagination, you will not be concerned about ways and means of gettingrid of it. -Annamalai Swami

My message to the MJ FB Awakening Community 12-14-15:Even in this very awakening community there are so many ideas, beliefs and theories (spiritual,scientific, etc.) still being held onto. The Truth is eternally here/now, does not come or go, anddoes not require ANY idea, belief or theory. What is silently looking out your eyes... does it comeor go?"It ( the Self) is not a flame that can be blown out by passing winds of thoughts and desires. It isalways bright, always shining, always there. If you are not aware of it, it means that you have put acurtain. You are the one who puts the curtain there by believing in ideas that are not true."-Annamalai Swami

The 'little self' is something which only appears to be real. If you understand that it has no realexistence it will disappear, leaving behind it the experience of the real and only Self. Understand thatit has no real existence and it will stop troubling you.It is only when we identify with and limit ourselves to the body and the mind that this false self isborn.‘This physical body is not you; the mind is not you. Go beyond them to see what is really behindthem.’ This is done to make people give up their incorrect, limiting ideas, so they can have a directexperience of what is truly real. I am asking people to be aware of the rope of reality instead ofbeing confounded and led astray by the mental illusion of the snake. -Annamalai Swami

The nature of the Self is nothing but peace. If you are not aware of that peace, it means that you areidentifying with something that is not the Self. As long as you hear, taste and smell things, you identifywith the body. When the perceptions and the perceiver of them vanish, you become aware of thepeace that is there all the time. -Annamala Swami