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STILLNESS

So you come to sit with me in the Silence. Be still. Know that you are effortless, choiceless, Pure Awareness. Know this deep in your heart. As soon as thoughts come to you, ignore them. Let the thoughts come, let the thoughts go. Pay absolutely no attention to the thoughts, and they'll disappear of their own volition. But you try to change them, and the power of them will become so much stronger. Remember, don't try to exchange good thoughts with bad thoughts, or bad thoughts with good thoughts. Whenever thoughts come to you just ignore them. Sometime in the morning, just scream it out at the top of your voice, "I am effortless, choiceless, Pure Awareness." That'll send the message home, who you really are. And go through the day like this.

Be still! If you can only be still enough, you will feel this unalloyed happiness within you arising. And you will just become happy for no reason whatsoever. But it only comes when you're still, when you're quiet, when you're peaceful. Do not be two different people, one who comes to satsang and is quiet and one who argues in the world all day long with people, and finds everything wrong in the world, gets angry, gets mad and upset. Be one person. All pervading Consciousness. Be That.

Never allow yourself to believe that something's wrong in your life. Catch it before it starts. And say to yourself: "I am effortless, choiceless, Pure Awareness." Whatever comes up, say that. Know the truth about yourself. God has no problems. Neither do you. For you are That.

T. 152 @ No Thoughts Will Help You Realize The Self - May 10, 1992