Your Mind Wants This To Remain A Secret

[00:01:03] Is the mind an enemy? No, ultimately like as in in the the functional aspect of mind is not an enemy.
[00:09:47] But still it doesn't change the fact that the sweetest thought is a step away from your ultimate truth of what you are.
[00:22:74] I don't even know it exists. How crazy is that?
[00:26:40] The most amazing thing available to humans on the planet and most people don't even know about it.
[00:32:46] It's just astounding to me.
[00:39:13] So yeah, the nematode parasite
[00:43:08] doesn't let you know about it.
[00:46:58] It occupies you,
[00:48:75] keeps you distracted.
[00:54:19] How cunning it is is amazing that it's
[00:56:88] got billions of people unaware of the highest state of their being, availability, and their beauty available within them.
[01:04:84] The magic within you.
[01:06:95] Absolute magic within you.
[01:09:66] Nobody knows.
[01:13:30] Or very few know.
[01:18:78] That's the greatest con.
[01:23:67] It's the greatest con ever.
[01:28:44] The cosmic joke we just spoke about earlier on.
[01:32:44] Just the revelation of the cosmic joke of, "Oh my God,
[01:36:26] what's happened here?"
[01:39:88] How do we get so lost?
[01:47:60] How did I get so lost? was actually, how did I get so lost? How is that possible?
[01:52:21] To get that far away when it's right here?
[02:00:23] A laughter came because it's such a freedom in it as well. It's just,
[02:03:68] that's not, I've heard that a few times from different people.
[02:07:34] You just laugh.
[02:11:79] Ridiculousness of it.
[02:16:51] As there's not a little bit of sorrow in there too.
[02:32:79] You don't need to believe anyone.
[02:35:48] You just, you just keep going in, it reveals itself.
[02:40:48] You don't need a priest with a pointy hat
[02:44:03] that has a,
[02:46:44] you know, an encrypted phone to God.
[02:51:19] No one else can read the messages except him.
[02:54:85] And then it's in you.
[03:05:07] It's a beautiful thing.
[03:16:62] But do you have the gumption to
[03:19:65] go there and go through the,
[03:23:59] you know, through the mountain, I guess.
[03:28:90] Of your history.
[03:34:03] Clean, clean it up a bit until there's enough space for
[03:39:27] God, or the empress, or beingness, or whatever you want to call it, whatever silly name we invented
[03:46:89] to to remain in you without getting
[03:50:50] compressed or cut, or that it has to take off again. So it wants to stay.
[03:54:68] Can you be soft enough so it wants to stay?
[04:00:99] Because it's extremely fragile.
[04:03:84] It's the yin of yin.
[04:07:95] You jump, it leaves.
[04:17:42] You flinch, it leaves.
[04:22:04] So we have to cultivate the ground. We have to weed,
[04:28:65] take all the rocks out, all the sharp edges,
[04:31:07] all the toxic plants.
[04:43:24] Make a nice soft space.
[04:49:50] Which means the metate has to go,
[04:52:13] because that's harshness
[04:54:33] and control and power and pain.
[06:09:16] It doesn't seem to be making anybody happy.
[06:18:41] And when I say happy, I mean ongoing. Just your natural state
[06:21:77] doesn't have to be happy, but happy is a result of
[06:24:60] peace. So, let's say peace and contentment. It doesn't bring peace and contentment.
[06:30:46] The roots of happiness,
[06:34:82] true happiness.
[06:43:20] Papaji used to say, "You need to prepare yourself for the Emperor."
[06:49:03] And I would say you need to prepare yourself for the empress,
[06:53:14] because it's yin.
[06:57:07] So we soften where we can and we get
[06:59:75] learn to face the sharpness and the harshness and
[07:04:12] hunt it out of our system gently and kindly, without aggression.
[07:12:96] Because we've got the aggression within us is already
[07:18:27] enough.
[07:27:36] So thought is yang, silence is yin.
[07:41:07] And even the sweetest thought you can have
[07:44:81] is actually a step away.
[07:54:60] This needs to be understood.
[07:58:65] Is the mind an enemy? No, ultimately like as in in the the functional aspect of mind is not an enemy.
[08:06:52] But still it doesn't change the fact that the sweetest thought is a step away from your ultimate truth of what you are.
[08:14:52] This fact still remains.
[08:27:81] Love is experienced, not thought.
[08:34:88] Love is radiated and is all all all through everything.
[08:40:48] It is not something that's done. It is not a yang.

• The Mitoté
  A Toltec term for the internal noise of the unobserved mind; the harshness, control, and pain that must be cleared to soften the ground for Direct Presence.
• The Greatest Con
  The mind's subconscious ability to keep one unaware of the highest state of being, making one believe that thought is the ultimate or only reality.
• Nematode Parasite
  A clinical metaphor for the ego-structure that occupies and distracts the host (you) from recognizing Unconditioned Consciousness, feeding on attention and energy.
• Softening the Ground
  An inner engineering practice of dismantling harsh egoic patterns and cultivating a gentle, receptive inner state where Beingness can abide without being repelled.
• Direct Realization
  The immediate, non-conceptual recognition of one's true nature as Awareness, which is perpetually obscured by the mind's activity, even the 'sweetest thought.'
• Yin of Yin
  A term describing the extreme fragility and receptivity of pure Presence, which retreats at the slightest mental 'flinch,' aggression, or harshness.
• Ego-Structures
  The collection of conditioned patterns, agreements, and identities (the 'parasite') that create the illusion of a separate, persistent self.
• The Direct Path
  The method of turning attention directly inward to see what is already here, bypassing the need for beliefs, intermediaries, or progressive stages.
• Beingness
  The silent, aware presence referred to as 'the empress' in this talk; the fundamental, non-dual reality that remains when the Mitoté ceases.
• Skillful Means
  Precise methods or metaphors, like 'softening the ground,' used not as beliefs but as practical, technical tools for psychological deconstruction.