‘I have become, I will become’ ‘I will reach, I have reached’, ‘I will not succeed, I will not reach’. This is bifurcation through thinking. One seeks relief by this bifurcation. One seeks security by this bifurcation. Can one notice this? Noticing ends the relief seeking. One is one with what one is doing from moment to moment. One comes in action mode. Action mode never settles. The Original has touched you.

One becomes more concerned with securing satisfaction, securing relief than in action, than in seeing what happens.

‘I am sad, I am confused, I have fear, I have anxiety’-this is bifurcation through thinking. If you are not carried away by this bifurcation-the sadness, confusion, fear, anxiety-what ever expression it may be-connects you to the ground, to the Original energy.

You talk about suffering, tension, stress as you want to stabilize pleasure, relief. Once you actually see that pleasure, relief can not be stabilized-you will stop talking about suffering, tension, stress.

You are trapped in the ideas about God, Enlightenment, liberation, happy living, peaceful living and so on.

Can you see that actual issue before you is that you want to have what you want, no problems should tinker your mind?

Instead of seeing this actuality, you divert your attention to ideas about God, Enlightenment, liberation, happy living, peaceful living and so on. You begin to seek relief from pain and uncertainty life is showing by these ideas.

Can you absorb this resistance (pain and uncertainty) without any explanation?

You begin to see ‘what is True’. No philosophy can now entice you. The Original has touched you.

If your work is entertainment, interesting, uncompulsive for you - no spirituality, no religious-spiritual ideas can entice you.

It is not that you do not face discomforting, irritating, disliked, compulsive situations-but alignment happens automatically if you do not shy away from, gloss over ‘discomfort and uncertainty’ you experience. This alignment is your connection to the Original.

Every one is total, fully charged. One is simply carried away by consolations, promises for future, seeing some one else as holy, superior (guru and so on) and oneself as unholy, inferior. See yourself as you are from moment to moment-whether confused, angry, anxious, happy. Do not cover up what you feel. Now no philosophy, no idea can entice you. You have touched the current of life.

You feel confusion. You feel insulted. Conflicting thoughts come to your mind. What to do, what not to do. Something untoward may not happen and so on. Can you see that all this is psychologically uncomfortable to you? Your nervous system experiences disturbance. Once you are able to see this-your energy is concentrated.

We think as if this discomfort can be thrown out of the mind and we can remain undisturbed, relieved, pleased. We think as if someone else (guru and so on) or science and technology or future will relieve us from this discomfort. No body else can bear it for you. Nothing can be thrown out of the mind.

You are on the Original ground. You are Total.

One talks about efforts, about hard work as if efforts or hard work will take one to some safe, secured position. The impetus to make efforts is relief promised in the future. Once you see that this relief can not be secured, your whole energy is concentrated here. Your every action is backed by passion, by full energy- talk about efforts, about hard work drops. Touch of the Original happens here.

Do you believe in God?

The need for belief arises when you have not seen the actual.

Can not belief in God be used to see it, realize it actually?

Belief in God, talking about God simply degenerates as a relief seeking device from the discomfort, irritation you experience.

When you see the actual, you are one with actual-all talk ‘about God’ drops. There remains no one separate to talk about. Talk becomes restricted to matters related to daily living, matters of the world.

Instead of using the words success or failure-can you concentrate on what you want from moment to moment?

But this does not mean that one will get what one wants?

You are on a fluid ground and not on a solid or fixed ground. At any point- whether you get what you want or do not get it-new imaginations, new desires, new ideas are continuously arising in your mind.

Can you notice this process? You are on the Original ground.

You are thinking about something. Some thoughts (liked or disliked) are arising in the mind. You are making some calculations in your mind. This is natural working of the mind. Now the illusion enters and tries to object to or claim the thinking. Energy is dissipated. It becomes enclosed, limited. There is no thinker separate from thoughts. Thought (I) is trapped as if it is separate from thinking. 

Unless you are face to face with your fears, uncertainties, confusions - without any explanation - you are simply befooled by religious-spiritual or other such ideas. Whatever you may know or possess, unless you come to the point of facing your fears, uncertainties, confusions - living remains superficial, seeking relief, instead of enjoying from moment to moment.

No amount of wealth, fame, securities, religious-spiritual ideas, activities can take you to stable pleasure, stable relief.

Then what gives one stable pleasure, stable relief?

Nothing can give you stable pleasure, stable relief. 

Now you are able to find your work, what you intend to do. Your every action is backed by passion.

You have to line up your energy in whatever situation you are, however intimidating the situation is. And this is essentially possible as your life is not in immediate physical danger.

But how to do it? I read about shocking incidents everyday happening here and around the world. Should not I react?

If the incidents really shock you, cause discomfort in you - lining up your energy, that is, not reacting to the discomfort is the way, is the transformative process. Now any action is relaxed, conscious.

Split through thinking is created as - ‘I will become, I will reach, I should not be angry, I should not be confused and so on’. ‘I’ seeks relief through this splitting as if it can come to comfortable, stable end. Once noticed, the total field is realised. Now any action is backed by passion and not by comforting explanations.

You have defined work as work or job in some office, factory, business and so on. Can you see that every movement is work? Every movement of your senses, every doing, thinking is work. You are never off work. Unless you see this-you will divide your activities as work (compulsion) and non-work (relieving activities)-energy is dissipated.

How can one remain tension free, stress free?

No one is tense, no one is stressed. One is simply escaping tension, stress and trying to feel relieved, stay relieved. It is this attraction to stay relieved that makes the ‘normal friction of the brain to operate’ tension.

You want to stay relieved, pleased, satisfied.

You want to feel relieved, satisfied about future now.

If you just notice this inclination to relief- your energy is concentrated here and now.

The illusion sees right-wrong, it finds relief in labeling right-wrong. If the issue of right-wrong is kept at bay, mind is uncomfortable. Can one bear this discomfort without any explanation?

This is the key to Fundamental Understanding. One has touched the current of life.

If you are fighting with your discomfort, you will find relief. You remain tied to this pattern. If you just absorb the discomfort, energy remains concentrated, there is flowering of solution, of happiness. You are in the limitless field, where nothing settles.

You want to know – ‘what life is, What Existence is, why pain and uncertainty, why bizarre, irritating things happen and so on’.

Can you see that knowing does not lead to any where, it simply satisfies or dissatisfies you. Once you see this, brain is charged to see ‘what is’ from moment to moment.

It is not the inability to know – ‘why’ but to see that knowing can be used only for practical purposes, for action. It can not go further. Clarity begins to dawn. Now any action (or no action) is relaxed, conscious.

Brain experiences uneasiness, natural friction when you face any unpleasant situation, any irritating situation, when you feel insulted, when you face loss, when results are not as you expect. This friction is life energy itself. The illusion takes as if this friction will be or can be solved or removed from the mind. Dullness, decay sets in.

Once you are okay with this friction, you are attuned to supreme relaxation (with unending friction to operate). You are in the limitless field.

You have to bear the friction, you experience in daily life without any explanation. There is no way, friction can be ended. To realize this is to be on the Original ground. Thinking of relief as if friction will end is dullness, decay.

You feel confusion. You feel insulted. Conflicting thoughts come to your mind. What to do, what not to do. Something untoward may not happen and so on. Can you see that all this is psychologically uncomfortable to you? Your nervous system experiences disturbance. Once you are able to see this-your energy is concentrated.

We think as if this discomfort can be thrown out of the mind and we can remain undisturbed, relieved, pleased. We think as if someone else (guru and so on) or science and technology or future will relieve us from this discomfort. No body else can bear it for you. Nothing can be thrown out of the mind.

You are on the Original ground. You are Total.

You are thinking as if there is something behind the show of the Universe. Can you see that you simply want relief by knowing, by the answer? Relief from irritation, discomfort, you experience in daily life. Can you let go the relief of knowing? You are face to face with ‘what is’ from moment to moment – painful or pleasurable. You begin to see ‘what is True’.

We are constantly trying to find ways to remain happy, to remain satisfied, trouble free. As if we can have stability. We miss the thrill each moment carries. We are so enamoured by ideas about stability that we do not notice that this ‘seeking’ is the cause of all troubles. Energy remains dissipated.

Just be aware of whatever arises in the body (pain, irritation, pleasant or unpleasant feeling) and brain (thoughts-liked or disliked, possibilities, images, memory) from moment to moment-without rejecting (unpleasant) or trying to hold (pleasant). You are on the Original ground. 

Just be aware of whatever vibration arises in your body and brain- confusion, anxiety, sadness, pleasure, pleasant and unpleasant thoughts. You are thinking as if outer happenings are responsible for whatever arises in your body and brain, as if outer is troubling you.

Can you come to the point that whatever arises in your body and brain and the outer happenings is one process? You are in a no-escape position from moment to moment. Transformation has happened.

Anything you do or practise to be at peace, to remain happy, to remain relieved, satisfied boomerangs. Brain can not stay at peace, happy, relieved.

It has to find some contrast (desire, problem, lack) to remain alive, to remain working.

If you can notice this fact-fused state may touch you. You are now able to concentrate on what you want or want to do from moment to moment. The issue of staying happy, relieved, satisfied drops.

Q. - Can you explain by introducing the idea of God?

Ans. - Can you see that it is ‘you’ who introduces the idea of God?

Can you further see that relationship between ‘you’ and God can not be enclosed, fixed, finalized. As things do not happen as you wish. Thoughts, apprehensions do come to your mind, which you do not like. It means the ‘wishing entity’ is not in control. It means ‘wishing’ and ‘happening’ are related in a frictional mode. There is continuous disturbance and adjustment.

If you are okay with continued friction - the idea of God is no longer required.

Or you can say - exploration as ‘you’ versus God never ends at a comfortable point. This is the Totality.

Despite slogans for peace, for stability, ideas about positive thinking, ideas about happiness, religious-spiritual ideas floating around-

Why still the individual and society find themselves at non-peace, tense, fearful, fighting and so on?

Mind can not be at peace, it can not hold pleasure, relief, happiness. The more we try to hold peace, happiness, pleasure-the more frustration follows. Your energy is dissipated by the lullabies offered by these ideas. You have to bear the discomfort of facing wrong, bad, false. There is no escape.

You are on the fluid ground, Original ground. You are creative impulse of the universe now.

Can you see that issue is not God but how to deal with when you face confusion, uncertainty, discomfort, fear, ambiguity, any irritating, discomforting situation?

Instead of concentrating on this, questioning pain and uncertainty – you find escapes, diversions by ideas about God or other religious-spiritual ideas.

Can you recognize the discomfort in whatever form you are experiencing it?

When all escape routes are closed – energy is concentrated. You are one with the mystery.