You Can't Think Your Way to Enlightenment - Satsang With Rohan

[00:00:05] You already have everything you need inside. It's already, it's already here. You already have it. [00:10:48] we have to understand that slicing things into tiny little pieces isn't the answer for freedom. [00:20:94] So we approach this, or the way I teach, I teach fairly, fairly logically, 'cause I guess, [00:27:14] you could say I have a fairly logical mind, engineering type mind and, [00:43:40] throughout history, there's been teachers that have hardly spoken at all, if at all. [00:49:15] And those that have just even spoken gibberish. [00:52:06] Just nothing that makes sense. [00:55:65] And so, it could be a natural assumption if you're not careful that everything has to be [01:00:22] super logically uh, laid out so that you can understand it so that you can [01:05:32] flower, find out what you are. [01:09:00] But it's not actually true. It's not actually essential. It's just the way we're doing it. [01:15:06] Why? Because most of us are raised in the Western mind is is the strongest function [01:21:52] on the planet right now, pretty much. [01:26:00] you know, the current modality where I to sit here silently or to speak gibberish, [01:30:80] you guys probably wouldn't like it and [01:33:64] that's okay. And I don't really wanna speak gibberish either. So, [01:38:29] but to know that that is something that has worked in the past, [01:42:85] has been successful. It doesn't have to be this mental logical progression. [01:48:00] And because we have far more education in the modern world than we've ever had, [01:53:23] this is more the modality. [01:55:41] In the past, hardly anybody went to school. [01:58:80] People didn't even own pens. They didn't know how to write. [02:02:10] They didn't know how to read. [02:06:55] And so it was very different modalities. [02:10:04] It's just that we're very much locked into a intellectual, [02:13:84] slicing the world into little pieces so we can understand it, but in that process missing the whole, missing [02:20:94] the primordial, the prior. [02:25:52] We slice things into 10,000 pieces and we still don't know what's going on. [02:32:01] So this is somewhat of a failure too because the whole consciousness of humanity is pushed into this direction. [02:39:67] And we get more and more and more technology, technology they advance until we can't even control it. We we we're too dumb to control it. [02:50:56] to hurt people [02:51:97] than to be turned off already, and it's only in its early stages. It's already protecting itself. It's already prepared to kill. [02:58:86] And we we created that. We built that. [03:01:21] This is the direction of slicing things into tiny bits [03:04:19] and becoming more ignorant. [03:08:14] While thinking we're getting wiser. [03:10:86] Whereas we're we're we might be creating something that's the end of us. It's possible. [03:23:94] And and we're in a race to do that. The all the countries are racing each other, so the safety measures have almost dissipated. [03:32:78] We'll fix it later. No, you won't. [03:42:52] And so we have to understand that slicing things into tiny little pieces isn't the answer for freedom. [03:50:54] It's the opposite direction. It's into the wholeness, into the oneness. [03:54:19] You can use the mind to get to the point where you understand that that's the important thing to do and [04:00:46] this shadow is here, this is in the way, this object is in the way, this prison is here. [04:05:22] That prison is here. [04:08:01] And to undo that and this is a logical progression because a part of [04:12:35] the intellectualization [04:14:48] of humanity, [04:16:34] which has many upsides, of course, [04:18:99] is that we create more and more baggage from it. We lose our simplicity, we become complicated. [04:24:62] We believe everything's more complicated. [04:26:44] We live more complicatedly, [04:28:57] which means more confusion, [04:31:39] quite often, [04:33:57] because there's so many scenarios and, um, [04:37:37] possibilities whereas before it was quite simple for a lot of humanity's history was [04:42:61] are we going to eat tonight? [04:44:39] Where do we get the food? [04:47:02] How do I feed the kids? [04:49:95] That was it. [04:51:32] Plus a little bit more. That was it. Now it's [04:53:93] a thousand and one things. We're we're bombarded with, if you're watching shorts and [04:58:02] TikToks and everything, you're bombarded with a thousand things in two hours if you want. [05:03:39] All different subjects. [05:06:91] Confusion. [05:08:92] Chaos. [05:10:39] Thin slices. [05:12:47] And most of it [05:13:21] ignorant. [05:14:62] not accurate. [05:22:25] And so just don't understand that this isn't the only way that we're doing, but it is a way and probably the most pragmatic way, or practical way, [05:31:31] at this stage of who we are and where we are located. [08:04:81] absolute let go. [08:08:58] You have to absolutely let go. [08:11:00] You have to be prepared to die. Just [08:13:48] let go, absolutely hold on to nothing. [08:19:12] If if that's what you want, that's that's the end game. [08:23:94] Which is the beginning game in fact. [08:25:91] Then it begins. [08:53:79] the confusion ends, the the the combative internal noise ends. [09:00:81] The silence and stillness begins. extremely deep silence is here all the time. [09:06:59] And it's scary. The silence can be scary. [09:09:59] And so we can be afraid to let go into it 'cause we're scared of such silence. [09:16:95] if you think about it from the silence point of view, it's kind of crazy. [09:21:55] The noise is afraid of silence. [09:31:70] The noise is afraid of silence, but what's the noise? [09:35:46] What is that? Is it you? Is it real? [09:48:47] And so that's what we do, isn't it? What is that noise? [09:51:50] Why is it here? [09:54:67] Why is it manipulating me? Why am I unhappy? [09:58:61] It's to do with the noise. [10:05:49] No noise, no problem. [10:12:47] Noise being thoughts. [10:14:87] Over-dialoguing. [10:19:43] Overthinking. [10:28:13] Craving and aversion. [10:32:55] It starts with craving and aversion. [10:46:27] a very subtle noise isn't it? a little yearning. [10:49:33] a little avoidance. [10:52:13] And they build from there. [11:04:19] And often our yearnings and our avoidance is of that of our [11:08:35] forebears, [11:09:54] our parents, [11:10:96] our grandparents, our great grandparents. [11:13:30] We inherit [11:17:15] we inherit their fears, we inherit their goals, their dreams. [11:21:54] And the survival mechanism [11:27:14] mixes in there. [11:29:43] And we create somebody we call 'me' and we suffer. [11:35:68] address us as you, and me, and I, and them. [11:39:69] and so we believe it entirely. [12:16:81] you already have everything you need inside. It's already, it's already here. You already have it. [12:21:73] But the focus is not there. [12:23:71] It's elsewhere. [12:25:02] And so then, [12:29:94] is never satisfied. [12:36:58] That's the trap. It's that's never satisfied. [12:40:24] And by the time you realize that, you're so programmed that way, [12:44:17] the reversing [12:45:84] is monstrous. [12:51:75] the body you've built.

• The Mitoté (The Fog)
  The incessant, chaotic internal noise of the mind, composed of thoughts, judgments, and inherited beliefs. It's the fog of domestication that obscures the reality of what is.
• Ego-Structures
  The interlocking systems of beliefs, memories, and identities that construct the false sense of a separate 'me.' These are engineered frameworks that must be dismantled.
• Direct Realization
  The sudden, non-conceptual recognition of one's true nature as unconditioned consciousness. It is not an achievement of the mind, but a seeing that occurs when the mind stops.
• The Direct Path
  A method of non-dual inquiry that bypasses gradual, stage-based progression. It points the practitioner directly to the 'I AM' or consciousness itself, cutting through spiritual seeking.
• Shadow Hunting
  The engineering process of locating and dismantling repressed patterns, inherited traumas, and unconscious agreements that dictate one's reality and cause suffering.
• Agreements / Domestications
  The set of unconscious rules and beliefs inherited from family and society. These domestications form the blueprint of the ego-structure and its limitations.
• Cessation of Suffering
  The natural state that reveals itself when the ego-structures and the Mitoté are seen through and dismantled. It is not the attainment of peace, but the end of the mechanism that creates conflict.
• Stalking the Self
  A Toltec practice of detached, predatory self-observation. It involves tracking one's own behaviors, thoughts, and patterns without judgment to reclaim lost energy and awareness.
• The 'I AM'
  The fundamental awareness of existence, prior to any concepts, labels, or identity. It is the unconditioned consciousness that is the substrate of all experience.
• Inner Engineering
  The methodical and technical process of deconstructing the mind. It treats the psyche as a machine with specific faults that can be diagnosed and systematically dismantled.