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About myself is based on past events, past experiences, past conditions. We're constantly relating to a dead image. It's like pulling a bucket of water out of the river. What happens to the river? Doesn't it leave the bucket of water behind? Wouldn't we constantly be relating the river to the bucket of water? See the futility of that. In the same way, when you see that there's no entity there with any substance or any independent nature, what are you going to relate things to? You've got no point in relating things to it. What does that leave? It'll leave you with an unfixated awareness, a presence awareness, just as it is.
Just as it is meaning unaltered, unmodified, uncorrected. Nothing to relate it to, nothing to refer it to. Now the relating to it and referring to it will still go on because it's the way the functioning happens. Thinking in the pairs of eyes will still go on. But don't you see the difference? While they believed him, while they believed it was all happening to me, see what comes up with it. The fear, the anxiety, the stress, the self-pity, the guilt, the shame, the remorse, all of them. They're called character defects. It's come up in the belief about me that it's not doing the right thing. It should be like this, it should be somehow or other.
And what happens? I'm not relating it to that centre. I look out in nature and take my guide from nature. I see in nature the pairs of opposites are happening in nature. Just as they're happening in the thinking. Because that's all the appearance is, is dualism. But as they're happening in nature, is nature, anything in nature taking a stance against them? Is there a reference point in nature? Does winter say I don't like it, I wish it was summer? Is the tide coming in to fight the outgoing tide? The storm comes over and blows things away. What does nature do? Is it resisting it and let it pass through and then gradually restores itself?
And we're doing the same in the microcosms and macrocosms and so in the microcosm. We're doing the same here. The pairs of opposites are constantly changing. You take delivery of them and think, this is me and I've got to alter this, modify it, and correct it. And there might be some altering, modifying and correcting going on. But it's not deliberately done by the believed in me. It's still left as it is. Unaltered, unmodified, uncorrected. You've got a chance to change. You've got a chance to move on. When we hang on to it, keep it there, try and resist it, resistance is conflict. Conflict is disease.
And resisting so many things, we're in conflict over so many things. And we get diseased over so many things. And recognise that you are that natural functioning essence. There's nowhere for those things to cling to. Nowhere for you to take a delivery of them. And they can happen as much as they like. But they'll move on. Just as long as it's constantly unnerving on in nature. What do you do when it happens in nature? Don't you adjust to the seasons? Don't you adjust to so many conditions and things that happen in the world? And then adapting and adjusting to them, are they a problem anymore?
So it's important that we have a look and see that this idea of a separate entity came about because of the belief that we are this entity. This ego, this self-centred. And it's dualism that is the problem. The belief in dualism. When the ancients have told us all the way through it's non-dual. One without a second. And you see in dualism, every ism comes from the primary ism, dualism. Capitalism, communism, Hinduism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Buddhism. All those come about because of that primary ism, dualism. It's the only problem these things cause. You haven't got any isms. What are you? Aren't you just that natural functioning, happening essence?
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