[[Roger Castillo]] [[Satsang]] [[notes]] [[2021-11-24]]
seeking driven by a sense/feeling of uncomfortableness:
guilt: wrong in the past of my action... embarrassment
blame: towards other, mental story... outcome believed to be caused by other
pride (guilt): personal doership
pain interpreted as an attack to myself
worry: invested in future outcome
expectation
attachment to outcome
thought-based identity: it feel who I am.
An image of myself contained in a thought structure
inherent uncomfortableness
conceptual-based, judgmental relative to "me"
we might not even know what is happening
who are you when story gets cut off?
can be scary to glimpse that we are no-one
can be unsettling to have psychological-self dissolves; existential fear.
for others: moment of thinking-stop = relieve, revelation of essence beneath thinking
just stop narrative
suffering falls away in an instant, can stop any moment
... revealing thought-based sense of self/attitude .
glimpse
in practice: peace of mind is due to seeing again and again
"this is not my true nature"
working mind becomes familiar with guilt, worry, expectation as thinking
assumed autonomous entities
believe that outcomes make life okay
that's why people are so involved in circumstances
there is no perfect configuration
deep realization that comfortableness is never to be found in circumstances, in the flow of of life
your happiness is never to be found in circumstances
if it never been pointed out, we might spend a whole life with suffering
in the light of awareness suffering burns up
not knowing ourself = knowing ourself incorrectly
essence, consciousness doesn't think
what we are is prior to thinking
what we are is not the body, the body thinks
old sense of self = i am the body that thinks/feels
our being is complete, right now
these descriptions simply remind, point; to weaken psychological self, to strengthen capacity to simply be.
In the being it become self-evident that there is nothing to gain; I am complete; nothing is missing, no complains.
the body understands fullness in gaining.
being = feeling complete, nothing is missing
continuous, unbroken feeling... diminishing of false identity
gradual change
crumbling rebuilds itself; progressive dissolving
paradox 5:42
reality is the mix of the two, the sides of the same coin