Satsang

Notes 12-16-15

You can t have a problem without a thought. - Michael Jeffreys

Another name for ME is TENSION
You are naturally relaxed, but the mind comes in and that's the end of relaxed! The me is an
energetic thought that has the quality of tension to it. The me is constantly stressed. The me doesn't
know from chill out.
The imaginary me believes it is more special than any other imaginary me!
But when you try to actually find the me, it s no where to be found. Yet it seems to exist. How can
something not exist and yet seem to exist? By imagination.

IMAGINE ( verb) : to form a mental image of ( something not actually present to the senses) . To think
or believe ( again, two things which are not actually present to the senses) .

Thoughts arent around long enough to be anything.

Thoughts are fleeting and insubstantial. It s dissapearing as it s appearing!!
If you are truly watchful, each thought will dissolve at the moment that it appears.
-Annamalai Swami

You cannot prove your own thoughts. Because no one else has them but you. -Michael Jeffreys

( Confirm this for yourself: Can you actually find a thought?? If the answer is no, then to believe a
thought is to believe in something that literally doesn t exist. Can you actually find a me? If not, than
the me is imaginary.)
If you can understand that this 'little self' never at any time had any existence outside your
imagination, you will not be concerned about ways and means of getting rid of it.
-Annamalai Swami

What is left when it is seen in one s own direct experience that thoughts dissolve into nothing??
Effortless chillness... effortless relaxedness... Peace.

When the false is taken for the Real, the Real remains obscurred: The Rope Snake Analogy
If you see the rope as a snake, the real nature of the rope is hidden from you. If you only see the rope,
the snake is not there. When you have that clear and correct perception that the snake never at any
time existed, the question of how to kill the snake disappears. Apply this analogy to the 'little self' that
you are worrying about. If you can understand that this 'little self' never at any time had any
existence outside your imagination, you will not be concerned about ways and means of getting
rid of it. - Annamalai Swami
My message to the MJ FB Awakening Community 12-14-15:
Even in this very awakening community there are so many ideas, beliefs and theories (spiritual,
scientific, etc.) still being held onto. The Truth is eternally here/now, does not come or go, and
does not require ANY idea, belief or theory. What is silently looking out your eyes... does it come
or go?
" It ( the Self) is not a flame that can be blown out by passing winds of thoughts and desires. It is
always bright, always shining, always there. If you are not aware of it, it means that you have put a
curtain. You are the one who puts the curtain there by believing in ideas that are not true."
-Annamalai Swami

The 'little self' is something which only appears to be real. If you understand that it has no real
existence it will disappear, leaving behind it the experience of the real and only Self. Understand that
it has no real existence and it will stop troubling you.
It is only when we identify with and limit ourselves to the body and the mind that this false self is
born.
This physical body is not you; the mind is not you. Go beyond them to see what is really behind
them. This is done to make people give up their incorrect, limiting ideas, so they can have a direct
experience of what is truly real. I am asking people to be aware of the rope of reality instead of
being confounded and led astray by the mental illusion of the snake. -Annamalai Swami
The nature of the Self is nothing but peace. If you are not aware of that peace, it means that you are
identifying with something that is not the Self. As long as you hear, taste and smell things, you identify
with the body. When the perceptions and the perceiver of them vanish, you become aware of the
peace that is there all the time. - Annamala Swami