Self

YOU HAVE NO CONTROL OVER IT...

Q. Then I just let it do what's natural?

M. There is no question of your allowing it to happen, it will happen,
you have no control over it.

Q. But some things I can control. If I come here or I stay outside - I-can control that.

M. That is a misconception. Whatever happens, happens by itself. All
this is the show, or the expression, of consciousness - the nature of it is change. It is the dance of the conscious presence.

There are so many ways in which consciousness entertains itself, many different forms, abilities, capacities are functioning, but the functioning is merely to entertain itself.

When it is tired, it rests in sleep, when awake it needs
some kind of entertainment, some movement, some doing.

They are all appearances in consciousness; each will last according to its own duration, but basically, nothing that happens has any validity or importance.

Until the awakening, or understanding, you think that you
are the doer, but once this apperception takes place you know there
is no entity that is working.

Q. I just think it would be best to do good things instead of bad things.

M: What do you mean by good and bad things? Good things in one set of circumstances can be bad things in another set of circumstances.

Even the things you consider good can be so only as long as the body lasts.

Only a rare one will realize there is nothing to do -he is already That.

PRIOR TO CONSCIOUSNESS...108.