[[Roger Castillo]] [[Satsang]] [[notes]] [[2021-11-20]] - temperament - deconstruction - residual sense of self - assumed to be the truth - never questioning our experience - meditation - what is actually there in the moment - awareness of what IS, rather than a super imposition from the past - sound arising - knowing only the sound - appreciating of what is present - what else is here? - awareness of thoughts and physical sensations - just stick with what is. - unconscious labeling subsides - Who am I? - central to seeking in [[Advaita]], - [[Nisargadatta Maharaj]] >> [[You are that]] - What do I actually know? - Not the automatic, intellectual, conceptual answer - What is the current experience? - One concept: you are not the body. - Another concept: you are not the doer. - (David and Goliath... the size of "me" and my problems) - We falsely assume that the sense of existence is inherent in the body. Sense of who we are: - body - thinking - consciousness - allow concept to embed itself - inquiry - the thinking is asking the question - thinking is interesting: it needs to arise - the answer is not thinking - Who am I? - I am is not the thinking - Who am I? can be the last thought that leads to silence. - presence of thought, presence of thinking wrap around the presence - I am no the thinker, I am not the thought. - I am not the body - this is inherent in "peace of mind". - Not an amazing feeling, but we thought it belongs to body or thought - Do we live as Consciousness or 'I am' after that change? - Pure being is a feeling, not a thought - Impersonal, the personal belongs to body and thought [[impersonalfriend.com]] - destiny brings us back to being a person, but the suffering is removed. - the thought "I am" is a re-centering of identity -Who am I? - I know myself as the thinking, consciousness - I am not there - Body, thinking, consciousness... who am I? - the body moves on its own - Bee, note to self: "don't sting a human". - Instinct drives - Thinking and the sense I am might not be the controller of the body. - [[Ego]] ~ misunderstanding - I is not the body, is not the doer - Look at thinking, feel what you are. - [[suffering]] = need to define/report/making-sense - [[unknowable]], but undeniable - The talk today was the [[catalyst]] - You are off the hook, it is up to destiny