Sailor Bob's Last public Satsang. 17 Nov 2024

I'm saying our questions. Is that our name, Tanya? Res. Antony. Res. Antony. Deergan. Laura. Laura. Jacinta. Jamie. Tita? Eskow. Irwin. James. Laura Jim. I'm not sure what you're talking about. I Am The One Well, what we talk about here, if you're new to it, is what they call in the ancient texts or scriptures nonduality or Advaita. Can you hear me? Yes. Hooray! Advaita meaning one without a second, not two. That there is only that. That is all there is. And when you look into it, you'll see that it's so. There's only one essence, one life, one being. It's about patterning, shaping, forming, expressing as everything.

Only that. And you've already heard that, because that's the great mantra. I am that. I tell you that straight away. I am that, and when you come to look at it, you'll see it's so. Isn't that a chair you're sitting in? Isn't that the carpet on the floor? That's the light, that's the tree. That's the mountains, the valleys, the cars, the trains. Everything is that already. And we've taken on the idea, the concepts from the words we've learnt. There is something other than that. And that's the cause of all our problems. Because we say that is the chair, that's the carpet, that's you, that's me.

I say everything and all this manifestation is made up of things. You're a thing, I'm a thing, the tree's a thing. All things patting, shaping, falling and expressing as other than that. I didn't look into it investigating you see. That is all there is. So that's why we say here, here, whether you understand it or recognise it or not, start from the fact that there is only that. That is all there is. And if you recognise that, we'll start from there. Who or what is there to become something other? You'll see there is nothing other than that. And if that is so, you must be that.

Not much good at this talking today. Bit of a change. But still, what I'm saying needs to be investigated and looked at. We've taken on this idea that we are this person, this body, this mind. But are you the body? Are you the mind? Well, won't you say, my body, my mind? Who are you talking about if you're saying my body, my mind? You realize you've got a concept. There is something other than what you actually believe you are So another thing they point out is the false cannot stand up to investigation You look at some of these things we believe to be so, investigate them and see that it's not so.

You say, I am the body, but are you the body? If you believe you are the body, what's this body made up of? You realize the body is made up of elements. Earth, fire, water, space. Just the elements around you. Are you the air? You are not only there, are you the mind, are you the thoughts? You see, you can't say you are not these thoughts, nor can you say that they are, because it all appears and is seemingly so. I Am the One, I Am the One. And in that belief that you get caught up in these things, where you lose sight of the reality and take on this belief that we are something other than what appears to be so.

And it is not as it appears to be. So the appearance is not reality. When you look into the scriptures again you'll see that's so. They tell you that the basic space of phenomena, they're telling you what it all is. Everything is space. Space is all the base of everything. It's a phenomenal manifestation. I'm the one that's going to do anything, can't be anything other than that. We put those labels and words and believe that we are the word, the label, the thing. You know, have a word for it, that word belief. When you look into the word belief you'll see the definition. Belief is an unquestioned acceptance of something in the absence of reason.

acceptance of an alleged fact without positive knowledge or proof. So you've got these beliefs that you are this and that. When you investigate it, you'll see it's not so. You are different from what you believe it to be. And so we look past or through the actuality, the reality, and take it to be how it appears to be. But when they say the basic space, the base of everything, in which all this manifestation appears, is space. Can you postulate or think of anything at all that could be outside of space? What would be it? You realize it couldn't be anything other than the space. Space is the essence of it all.

And what we appear to be, the body, the mind, and everything else in this manifestation are the adornments of space. They only appear in space. Any of this manifestation isn't appearing in anything other than space. I Am the One, I Am the One, I Am the One. Things are not as they seem to be. They appear to be this and that, and words and labels we've picked up along the way. We get caught up in the word, in the space, and take it to be real, which it is not so. But is there anybody who is unaware right now? And you'll know immediately, no I'm not unaware.

You'll realise you are this immediately and always, this ever-fresh presence-awareness, this absolute nowness beingness And recognize that what are you left with You left with the space itself which they call a cognizing emptiness emptiness with the capacity of cognising or knowing. Now, is there anyone here who is not knowing that you are right now? Can anyone say I am not? You realise you can't say you are not because why? Because the knowingness there is I am. I am that reality. I am that sense of presence. And what's this? How does this become the problem? Well, we learn all these words. I am Bob or I am Bill or I am Jane or Betty or whatever my name is.

People have been called by our parents. We take this to believe what I am and that label is only a person, a conceptual image I have about myself. And Nisargadatta tells you there's nothing can trouble you except in your own imagination. Break that down, image in or imagine. See, that's all it is. It's some conceptual label we've taken on and take to be real. If you're not the person, you are not the pattern, shape and form, what must you be? The only thing it can be, it must be this absolute, this reality, this one without a second. Second, they try and describe as not two, only the one.

And you look into that also, you'll see it's the only belief in this sense of separation This is the cause of all your problems. Because only me can be unhappy. Only me can be jealous or envious, full of pity, full of shame. Me is the cause of all my psychological problems. We've got all these fears, anxieties, stresses, anger and all the rest of all these fears come up And we beat ourselves up with the sensation or the feeling, take ourselves to be the separate entity, the individual. But Nisargad atta, doesn't Nisargad atta tell you, nothing can trouble you except your own imagination. Whatever you are imagining and you're believing in it, that's the problem.

The problem. You are a little bit more than an image. You are the absolute. It tells you that, or the Buddha also tells you, There is only that consciousness or presence-awareness. And they call it a cognising consciousness. Consciousness with the capacity of cognising or knowing that I am. And then we take on the belief that we are this body-mind, Which is nothing but a conceptual image, instead of seeing what I really am. That I am this body, body, mind, entity. I am this pattern, shape and form. And recognise it's only the me that can be fearful. It's only the me that can be anxious, full of self-pity or unhappy.

That me is the cause of all my psychological problems. And the effects are these concepts I've got about fear, anger, depression, guilt and remorse. Take on to be on this conscious psychological pattern that I am a separate entity not the absolute. And he calls it a cognising emptiness. And he made the statement then that emptiness is form, meaning that all these forms, including you, me, and everything in this room and outside of the room, is nothing but the cognising emptiness. It only emptiness vibrating into different pattern shapes and forms So he made this statement emptiness is form turned it around the other way and said the form can be nothing other than the emptiness But instead of trying to be the emptiness, we take it to be this individual, this person, and suffer because of that.

That is the cause of my anxiety, my fear, the belief that there is this capacity of being and knowing by the emptiness of all. So when that's investigated and looked into and seen the falseness of it, what must happen? I Am the One, the One, the One, the One. Are the life intelligences and life energy taking a stance there? Who is there to be fearful? Who is there to be anxious or full of self-pity or depressed? Now if you've got nothing to relate to, it must leave you as it is, purely this presence, awareness. Nothing other than that. And you see when you investigate that it is so.

I am not this person. I am not this body. What I am is that reality. The absolute. You can't add anything to the absolute. I Am the Absolute. Have a look and see. If you are the Absolute, you could have added anything to it, it wouldn't have been absolute. If you can take anything away from it, it wouldn't be absolute. And if there is a belief there that you are other than the absolute, or you've stripped away from your true nature, because it's only the absolute that pattern shapes and forms and expresses as all these different pattern shapes are. There is only that Absolute. And they tell you that too when you look into the scriptures.

Wai Wai says, why are you unhappy? Because everything you say, everything you think, and everything you do is for yourself. And he says there isn't one. When you look at that it's so. Is there a personal self there? Are you the body? And you know you're not the body because you say, my body. Well who is it or what is claiming the body? Is it the body claiming the body? How good. So it's not the mind, hey, the mind, hey, the next thought. You know you're not a thought. So when you look at those things you'll see that they're all false. And where does that leave you?

It must leave you as what you already are, always have been, and always will be. The absolute, the nondual, one intelligent energy that's patterned shapes, forms and experiences and everything. So investigate that and see for yourself because nobody can do it for you. Nobody whatsoever. It's got to be something that's recognized, a cognizing emptiness that's been lost sight of and needs to be recognized. In that recognition you are free from these erroneous beliefs. And then you'll get the taste of what they call the great perfection. And they'll tell you that clearly the great perfection is non-conceptual, non-conceptual awareness. Awareness without any concepts. And you'll see that it's so.

That's what we point to, I'm rambling on, making a hell of a noise over nothing. Everybody here can be aware of that fact and some of you are. And done a little bit of investigation and see for yourself that it is so. The scriptural saying is know the truth and the truth will set you free. That's where the freedom, peace and joy is, in that recognition that you are the one-isms. It's about me shaping, forming and experiencing. Spirit change has everything and there is only that. So, as I say, a lot of you know that. Cats can take over and I've seen it. Those that understand it, to point it out, wherever it's said in different terms to what I'm saying, somebody might recognize it.

And somebody might put it another way, others might hear it. But that's how it's passed on, from one to another. And they tell you in the Bible, in the beginning was the Word. In the beginning was the Word. That's where it all begins, with the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God. All things were made by Him, by the Word. And there is nothing made that was made without the Word. Have a look at that and see if that's not true. We can't have a word that's not true. You've got words for absolutely everything, but the word is not the thing. You can't drink the word water.

You can't cook with the word fire. All these words have their own particular meaning, I am not going to give you the meaning, but we take it to be me or I. We take it like a false identity, which is not true. I'm at the end of the road, I won't be talking much longer, the voice is gone. But I've had a good run of it for quite a few years. So nothing's lost, nothing's gone. But there are plenty there, you can take it up from where it's left off here, and keep reinforcing it. Thanks again. Thank you. And I'll just include, because I told you guys, but the online community, you may not know, we have a big attendance today, not because of our wedding anniversary, But because I actually put up the announcement that this will be the last of Bob's public appearances, this is not the last satsang as I know Bob as long as the voice is there he will relentlessly pour out his heart for us to see that there is life without suffering totally possible.

So we will be live streaming probably from now on. We will probably, that's because we're gonna We are going to rearrange the house and as Bob's health condition progresses, there is more pain medication involved and mobility is going, so we are going to have a hospital bed there in the room. It won't be in a space for the participants, but you can still be with us online, like we have the online community with us right now and I am going to just include them. There is a lot of love messages and good morning messages and there is a big crowd here as well online, so thank you for showing up as well.

Wonderful to be with you again and much love from Catherine and beautiful Bobcat good morning from Joe and Anika says good morning so good to see you and hear you Bob giving his spiel so to hear Bob giving his spiel so grateful for the satsangs but especially how powerfully this life has been impacted by the pointings eternally lovingly grateful and this is I think a wonderful way to actually just just summarize how beautiful Because we have those conversations with Bob fairly often, how we can see the change in people and the psychological suffering easing off and dropping away. But if it can come actually from you to give him that statement back, that will be even more beautiful.

But I'll just include a couple of more comments. Good morning all and from Giotti and Sol says, Great to see you show up again and again Bob. So much love and gratitude for all that you are for all. And morning messages and Jenny, my goodness, it's like one o'clock at night isn't it? Thank you Jenny for showing up and eternally grateful she says for all your pointings Bob. Wish I was there in person with you all. Yeah that would be lovely and yes deeply grateful for the internet right now. What a blessing to be able to be with you despite residing on the other side of the globe.

Much love. And Primali says, eternally grateful for amazing kindness. And Sally, thank you dear Bob for helping us in a great remembering of who we all are and always have been and always will be and love. David says, good morning. And Melinda, looking great and sounding as wonderful as always, Bob, love you. And Gilbert says, see Gilbert says, for yourself, no other way. Absolutely. And thank you from Tanya and Jyoti and Bill says, Bob, your clarity and energy is amazing. And Tristan, thank you, Bob, love you. And Karolin Pixi, external love, thanks, Bob. And Hansa, so grateful for all of Bob's giving and kindness, love and light.

Take it in, my darling. Yes, and that's it for the online community. Anyone would like to express whatever comes up, whatever helps, whatever works, and let him have it. I'm going to ask you one question. I heard another teacher say if I was going before a guru, a god, a teacher, I'd want to make that question the question of the fucking century. And here it is We all got here I quite sure because we didn have happy childhoods My question to you is is ever too late to have a happy childhood Where the gods that are taking care of you care for you where you not I a little bit of a fan of the I was knitting for another drunken sailor and it's in Ewan Macpherson McGregor Mackay.

And she knitted every stitch with love. And he was a sober alcoholic. Well there you go. Everything with love. So I got an easier childhood, a great bonus dad when my other dad left. Another sailor who just drifted off into the ocean and never came back. What is it with you sailors? But it is. I'm asking, I'm answering my own question, Bob. If I haven't learned anything from you in 20 years, Jesus, what are we all coming back for? Because we're not trusting that we know. I know! I am that! And I'm having the happiest childhood. I've just come up to see a four-day-old grandson I'm watching the conditioning.

His name, he's got chunky thighs, immediately sexualised as a boy. But that's the way it is. And when we get out of accepting things exactly as they are, because it's none of my business. You know, I come up from Wonthaggi, but I used to come by through Corran Borough, and on the school fence there was a banner that led to Bourke Road. And it said, don't worry about tomorrow, God's already there. And I laugh at that, but it gives me that muster to see the hope, I'm not in charge. And I can let go, and I'm intending to have whatever's the rest of my life, because I was a nurse for 50 years.

And if there's any samsara, zinkama, I paid my dues, because it came from the heart. And this is my other question. You know, you're old and rusty, it's time to hand it over to the Shakti. It's evolving, the teaching's evolving, and it's evolving into love in action. And that's why this angel's been brought into your life and I was brought here today. Because I'm not frightened to say what I mean. You fuck, I'm me, I'm God. Why would you argue with yourself? I love you so, so much, Bob. Oh my God, you can't know how much I love you. And I said that to you once, and you know what you said?

You're just loving yourself! And I went off for 20 years doing more research, because I wouldn't trust what I saw in your goddamn eyes! Hallelujah! And I have said in this room, I was the only one to stick my head up, this is dry, Yanni. Time for that's over. And thank God for it. Thank God for it. It was the truth forced down our throats. That Nisargadatta was a tough little guy and so are you. But it's time for bhakti. At least he liked bhajas. He liked a bit of a jiggle. Come on, Bob. It's time for a change and it's time for you to do whatever you want with whatever time you've got left.

Hallelujah! And the energy in this room, the love that's infusing you is infusing us, is infusing you. That's who we truly are. That's who we truly are. And this knowledge must, and I'm boring on Mooji, I'll confess, but it must combust into action. It must combust into authenticity. I'm just a little old lady from the sticks and as neurotic as hell. But Dhamma, no, I'm not. I'm God. I am that. And thou art that. And thou and thou, we are that. Love and the Brewers, thank you so much Bob and thank you to that Darrow Dave, that other alcoholic in my life who's not here.

And you know why he's not here Bob? Because he understands everything you've ever said to the letter, right? And this is what I'm talking about the Shakti and the Shiva. Now he's Dryani, he's an Aquarian. Let's not issue relativity fear folks, let's talk Pisces. My little babies are from the stars with Pisces in his eyes. But anyway, this guy brought me here, but he didn't come today despite my pleadings, asking, manipulating and then letting go. You know why? Because he knows what you're talking about and he's not going to come back and say thank you to himself. He knows, he's with me and he has to put up with me.

But he's getting the Shakti he needs. Dryani, it's like it's got to be Linyang, it's got to be balanced. And the best thing you can do is hover, hover at the doorway of perception, hover and make discerning. You can do it. It means coming back to now, I know I'm animated, but I've got to speak the truth. And here's the thing, and I'm saying this publicly and live on air, and this was Osho that said this, He said, if you get a vision, it's getting information you could never get by any other means. Right? I never questioned what a vision was, I just thought it was what people in the Bible had.

So it was, yeah, yeah, I'll add to me. But, Nisargadatta's there in one of my meditations. Nisargadatta appeared before me, speaking Marathi, and it was him. And I said how can I understand you And he just looked at me and said how can you not How can you not And it true It all illusion it all but it a sweetness to it a bhakti Tell him to come up and let us hear from what he has got to say I say tell him to come up and let us hear what he has got to say. Oh, you want me to channel him? He is here, he is always here.

He was never here but he is always here. But do you know what he said to me? And I am saying this, the only people to hear this, and you can say I am crazy or whatever you like, I was very much in awe of what happened in this vision where I got this information and he said your name is Narada Datta. And I said I can understand you and he said I cannot. Anyway I looked up this Narada Datta thing. Datta is from Marathi from Hindu means bestowed. Narada was the highest disciple of Vishnu. He was the highest disciple of Vishnu, he was a musician, he was mercurial, he was knowledgeable, he was a teacher.

And many, many years ago when I lived in Fitzroy, I got off the tram and went to this shop and bought this basalt statue, 45 years ago. Never heard of Abheda, never. I'd heard of Buddha, and I knew it was maybe Hindu. I wasn't a total ignoramus. And this thing's just with me for 45 years. And it's Vishnu. And I looked it up and he just, I know I'm animated, but he just is the watcher. It's just another metaphor for that serenity. It's a serenity. Anyway, Bob, I've really harped on and I just love yous all! And people will get that because my little grandson's half Maltese.

So there's just beauty in diversity. And the universe, God, is always seeking to evolve that. Yes, that's why you need the friction to make it want to go better and further or a different direction. We are just energy. Oh, I love you so much and I'm so sorry for taking up so much time. That's beautiful, Maggie. Thank you very much. I have a couple of statements here from the online community. A couple more statements and I can hear the song coming up, so I'll be quick. So, David says, I had no idea this was your last public meeting. The functioning in action, eh, Bob? Yes, he will still be streaming live, I hope.

Depends on how much of a voice is left with the... And much love on your anniversary, thank you. And thank you Bob and Kat from Susan. And Colin says, thank you Bob for being the shining light that we all are and showing the way. Much love. Happy anniversary from Jyoti and let go or be dragged from JC. And happy anniversary from Jane. Thank you so very much. I'm so grateful. That was the gift that I was asking for, to just be here together and hear him speak, hear him animate it. And Cathy, lots of love Bob, thank you beyond words. And JC, thanks Bob for your pointers and clarity, much love and hearts from Jane.

And let's give voice to the guitar. Hello. Just tuning up. There is so much magnificence I am a woman who is not the only one who has the power to make the world a better place. I will be the one who is the one who is the only one who can make the world a better place. Translation by We are coming in, waves are rolling in, Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! There is so much magnificence Here inside the ocean The waves are rolling in, waves are rolling in. There is so much magnificence here inside the ocean. Waves are rolling rolling waves are rolling There is so much magnificence here inside the ocean.

Waves are rolling in, waves are rolling in. There is so much magnificence here inside the ocean. Winter on the wind, winter on the wind. There is so much magnificence here beside the ocean. Waves are rolling in, waves are rolling in. We love you, Bob. We love you, Bob. And Kat. Happy anniversary. And there are more on the window there behind Ruchika. Beautiful. Thank you. And we have another couple of comments here. Happy anniversaries from Ram and from Tazi. Salila says, sweet surrender, so much gratitude and love. And Jenny, beautiful tears flowing. And Anika, oh my God, crying, so much love. Oops. So much magnificence. Oh Bob, you are radiating bliss and the angel beside you.

The love, the love. And Lila, an expected gift to turn on Wi-Fi phone and see this live transmission. Life transmission, now surprised to hear the song we made in Pune when Bhagavan requested songs inflicted by mystics. My name was then Prem Sagara, Ocean of Love. And blessing, soul says, so beautiful. Nisargad Taha, I Am, I Am, I Am, I Am, I Am, I Am, I Am. Bring it down. I am the one who is the most beautiful of your loving minds. For me to love you now would be the sweetest thing, would make me sing. Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.

When sundown pales the sky, I want to bide a while behind your smile, and everywhere I look your eyes I find. For standing in your heart is where I want to be, long to be. Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind. When rain has hung the leaves with tears, I want you near to kill my fear, to help me to leave all my blues behind. For standing in your heart is where I want to be and long to be. Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind. For me to love you now would be the sweetest thing It would make me sing, ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.

Love you Bob! I have another couple of comments here and Kathy says, Chris says, love you guys and Kathy what a beautiful beauty you created Bob, such a beautiful community surrounding you. Love you Bob and Kat, beautiful music, people, beautiful expressions of the One Essence. And she's asking Jane what's the song? Catch the Wind. Donovan. Donovan, yes. And also I would like to invite, because I know what actually really will be the best gift, bring back the light of realization, like jump back on that nonduality recognition and tell him how it actually really impacted your life So everyone, him and everyone can hear how this message can really transform and release from psychological suffering.

I had a brief discussion with Dean yesterday when we had a good laugh at examples, live examples, how there is a thought and there is a disturbance and there is no thought and there is a peace, there is immediacy. I can tell you that going through Bob losing slowly, losing the body, losing capacity, getting weaker, eating less and being in that is absolutely delightful and blissful because we are grounded in presence. So we are together. Every moment is a moment of presence and togetherness and sharing and reflecting love, looking into each other's eyes with absolute gratitude for that moment to be full of his presence.

And then the phone call comes and people ask for facts, you know, for stories. Okay, so how does it progress? You know, how was it last week? How is it going to be next week? That's upsetting. I mean, through exposure, I have to answer those type of phone calls and messages many, many times through the day. But you can actually see clearly how the moment is blissful. He's here. What is there to, what is there to cry about? He's here. This is the call for gratitude. Thank you. And then you can miss that aliveness by engaging with the context, which may be necessary. When I talk with the palliative care, of course that's necessary.

It's not to discard the story, but to remember that this is just the imposition, overlay of the narrative, that this is not life, this is not reality. Reality is now. And if anyone could actually bring up, bring back, show us, you know, over the years, some of you were here for a few months, some of you were here for a few decades. It indicates how the life gets easier, more blissful, more present, grounded and juicy in life when you realize that the story is just a story and not the truth, not the reality. And I see Dean has the... Oh, I thought you were going to say something.

Oh, I want that. Thanks, Bob. Thank you for everything. I think when I first started coming a few years ago, I'd read other books on truth and other teachings. And I came here and I was like, oh, this is like, in my mind, my mind was like, this conflicts, you know, I have to reconcile this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then the longer I was here, the more I could just see that this is just, there is just no conflict in anything that Bob's saying and that it just incorporates everything. Like there is no resistance there. It's just pure love and that love is everything.

It's the teachings that I've been to prior, people not in teaching, people arguing with teachings. It's all just incorporated or part of, inextricably, that love that is everywhere. And that, you know, anytime that I'm lost in a thought, it's just the lack of awareness of that love. And you step for a moment into that space and you see that there is no resistance there. It's just imagined resistance almost. It's just such a beautiful thing being in this space where that's so obvious, you can't avoid it. And listening to the singing is just an incredible space of love So thank you because it just seems like that is so accessible now in my life whereas previously it was just little bits here and there and now I know that it always there It's just occasionally it gets forgotten and then you see it's there and nothing's changed.

So thank you, thank you very much. Thank you, beautiful. And Sharon says Happy Anniversary Bob and Kat, what a blessing for you to find each other as part of the experiencing. Love and kindness always emanating from you, blessed. Yes, that's certainly, that's for sure the most magnificent part of the whole dream and to hear him say I'm the love of his life and for him to hear the same say like on daily basis, it is. I remember Nisargadatta answering question on the duality, why would life polarize itself into male and female and find the search in which it has to find and fulfill that. The happiness possible in the recognition that there is only one, there is not two, there is the same life, the same aliveness reflected.

When I look at him and there is nothing in the way, I see myself and he looks at me and there is nothing in the way. And the brilliance of that joining, thank you for all the wishes, it is absolutely brilliant and out of this world. Thank you. And Kavisha. Hello, I just wanted to say I love your saying what's wrong with right now if you don't think about it. And I printed it out and I stuck it on my piano. Whenever I go to the piano I see you there saying, what's wrong with right now? You don't think about it. It's such a beautiful pointer to snap one out of drama and worry and fear because there's just so much trust of life in that statement I hope that trust rubs off on me more and more.

So I really want to say thank you. I haven't been here for very long, I don't know, as long as a lot of other people, but I've felt just very warmly welcomed and it's so beautiful to be with such a loving community Thank you Kat, thank you Bob. It's been wonderful to have you with us, so wonderful. Words aren't really adequate enough for me to thank Bob. It's been 40 years nearly since I was blessed to meet him. And, you know, I was a bit of a nightmare when I met him, to say the least. And he gave me I Am That in 1988 and, yeah, and he said, read it and read it again and read it again.

And, you know, that transformed my life. Well, it showed me I was life. I am the only truth I know for sure is that I am. And the wonderful pointers that Bob has selflessly been giving to everybody, and I've been listening to them for 40 years, they are tangible in this expression of life. Because, you know, the proof's in the pot. Truth eats away the lie. Truth eats away the story. There's no doer. You don't have to do anything. All you do is be aware of the truth of your own being and love it and be warm towards it and give it a little nudge and a wink.

And, you know, as Lachie said, that becomes more prominent and the stories become less evident and less listened to. And so, you know, that love grows, that truth grows, and you never did anything. So I just want to say I love you, Bob, and, you know, you have had such a huge impact on my life and the life of my family. So the gratitude is palpable. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, well, words. Hard to find words to... I am a member of the Nisargad I'm so grateful that Bob you've had the biggest impact, the most important impact on my life. And like a little chick and a duck or whatever, you know, like a baby.

I felt like I was a little baby when I first met Bob decades ago and I was very attached and needed to come all the time. I was a lifeline you know because I needed to hear the pointing again and again and again and again to keep reminding me of the truth of what I am and miraculously that truth grows legs the beingness grows legs and it roots and it like a really strong tree gets stronger And to the point where I was, you know, coming and that attachment to Bob got less and less over the years. And the suffering, the suffering is just not real.

Thakha Thutmongyo, the true nature of Nisargad I was very into the heart of who I am and there was no question, there was absolutely no question of the truth of what was being pointed at and it was like at 19 I was like, oh my god, that's what I've been looking for and I didn't even know it. And the tears that are coming and welling up are not tears of loss or despair, they're just utterly coming from this place of recognition, of absolute recognition of the truth of that huge impact that you've had on my life. And you came to me in my dreams last night.

It was the most vivid dream. And you were at a market stall and you were standing there selling something. I don't know, probably nothing. And I saw you and I came behind the table, like the counter or whatever, the stall, and we just embraced. And it was almost like the last embrace in a way. And I was, I in my dream was carrying some kind of wanting to hold onto you. And you just, the words you spoke were something like, there were no words actually. There was just some kind of sense of, oh, okay, it's all okay. It's all okay. There's nothing lost. There's actually nothing lost.

And just this sense of the beingness of who and what you are is what I am. And that was that kind of recognition. And funnily, I'm not feeling emotional right now. I mean, like the tears or it's just, yeah, a deep, deep sense of, ah, yes, thank you. Thank you, Bob. Thank you so much. Yeah, so grateful. And we have couple more comments. David says, yes Kat, life is easy when I don't think about it. And there's couple of hearts seconded. And Jenny says, so well spoken Kat. And JC says, just thinking of the courage it took to go see Srini Sargad Maharaj, such an encounter.

I'm sure as a born would say, you are that. Thanks for the courage Bob. Thank you Kat for your presence too. Thank you. And David says again, thank you both so much. And I'm so happy that you have found a worthy partner to carry on with the work. Beautiful to be here. And Catherine, James says that Bob's pointers pulled him out of the delusion of pain and suffering into freedom. Beautifully said, eternally grateful. And David, and let's be grateful for Nisargadatta who set Bob on his way. All of us are the beneficiaries of Bob's need to find himself in the cigarette cellar that showed him who he is.

And he also says, even from this remote location I feel the energy in the room. Thank you, David. Beautiful. Jacinta. Hello. Thanks Bob and Kat. And one of Bob's pointers that I really do love, Bob always says you're the absolute, you already knew who you were. And yes, there was lots of trauma as a child, alcoholism and all that. But even as a child, I didn't realize and the more and more I listened to Bob, I always used to ask myself, why was I born this way? And there was every time, even as a little girl when there was so much suffering, there was always that quietness and stillness.

So all along, we don't know. I don realize but that a beautiful it a lovely point that we already know who we are and once the more we let go of the story and that life fucking amazing really and yeah but we already knew and I didn realize my whole life even during marriage I was like why was I born this way Why was I experiencing it And there was always a silence and that's the stillness and the silence as if God. Love you both. Thank you. Thank you, beautiful. And Anita says, I am so happy to see you all. No time, no distance. Thank you, Anita.

Thank you for being with us. I am not sure if I can do it. It's hard to... I see you struggling, I just wanted to read one more comment. Agreed, Anika says the energy is so tangible and beautiful. And she says hi. Maybe that will help you. All I was going to say is just that the benefits that I can't, it's hard to express I Am a I Am the One The Beer and the Tear, the Tear and the Beer or whatever about, what was it, Do Not Shed a Tear? Can you refresh my memory on that? Because I love the poem. Something about the empty shell or, I remember you were saying it at some point.

I don't remember. It's about life and death, I think. Yeah. You remember that, darling? Yeah, if the voice is there. If the voice is there, okay. Loving friends be wise and dry every weeping eye. What you see upon the bier is not worth a single tear. Tis a simple sea-shell, one out of which the pearl has come. The shell is nothing, leave it there. The pearl, they all, the love is here. Thank you. I don't know if that was what you thought it was or what it was. That was exactly what it was. Thank you. Nisargadatta has this interesting saying in which he is actually suggesting for people to take a different focal point of consciousness.

He says touch your finger, forefinger and thumb, and then just enter the focal point of consciousness of one and be the experiencer of that one. And we all have assumed a point in consciousness, I mean the life has assumed a point in consciousness. There's a point looking consciousness looking out of this eyes and this eyes and eyes of the whales and fish and birds and everything. So, this he invites people to actually experiment with changing the focal point of consciousness. This is right before that probably the most quoted part of his teachings, where he is talking about love being everything and nothing, wisdom being nothing and love being everything, and between those two the life that is moving and changing.

I am hanging out with Bob all the time lately and I say, darling, if you could only see how many thousands of people over the years you touched and you allowed them to see clearly without that veil of conceptualizing and interpreting and relating to oneself, it's absolutely unthinkable. Nisargadatta's That essence never goes anywhere. It can't die. The energy can't be destroyed. So, but right now He's here and the shell is not empty. Let's celebrate that. I just want to say I've been gently weeping in the back the whole time Just with so much love and gratitude. And I can't tell you how grateful I am.

So thank you so much. Beautiful. Thank you. I am the greatest expression of gratitude is simply to recognize that the onslaught of truth has reached its end. I can't resist it anymore. No matter how much I try, from time to time to make it a story that sticks, some kind of conceptual reality that is insidious really, isn't it? How that happens. At the very last we recognise, oh shit, I'm in conflict perhaps. What is this all about? It's a good question, isn't it? What's the conflict about? Is it the celebration of the oneness of all things, or is it the perpetuation of an idea of something separate, which patently cannot be true in the light of truth?

The light of truth, very simply put by you Bob, you're the master of simplicity, has reached its end regardless of how much I wanted to resist. Because at every turn I'm always reflecting back on this fucking teaching. The beauty of it, the simplicity of it. And the amazing love that is emanating from you at all times. Thank you. And I would also like to say that this is, Bob always highlights, a two-way street. That beautiful community with love and gratitude reflected back to him. It wouldn't work if not for you guys. I don't know how we had life before Dean actually helped with managing the whole thing.

And everyone here, thank you for actually, thank you for being part of it. This is a group investigation. So everyone's input is precious. This is the same life expressing through everyone. Even if it expresses us a doubt, it is very precious. And thank you. Nagi, you have the... Narada Datta, if you don't mind. Alright. I'm taking on a spiritual name. Did you ever think of taking one on? A spiritual name? Did you get offered one? Nisargadatta called him Bhishma. See! But that was just a pet name, you know. He wasn't into all that. I know, he wasn't, and knowing that was so great. What was Bhishma's name?

It was a character in Mahabharata who was shot a thousand arrows and couldn't be destroyed. The thing about the name, about these special names, a lot of folks do that, but it's almost like buying into that's what you are. I mean, why do that? It's like, it's just taking on another label. Exactly, that's why I only told people today, I'm neither Maggie from Wonthagin or Naranathara, I don't know. But I'm having a happy childhood. I'm playing God wants my heart to heal and wants me I wasn't a nurse for 50 years to not want this to go out to talk to people because quite frankly the limit of ignorance and the need to evolve is massive I mean you're all meeting people I love my little town but they need to know this and I need to have the courage to find a way to bring it to them without being preach or saying I'm a teacher or I've got this fancy name I don't.

I'm their friend and all I can do for them at the time is, this is what you asked for, how is it in your life? When I'm talking with the friend across the table, she's telling me about her ailments because that is part of this deal. You get to a certain age, it's ailment comparing. So you sit and you listen. And I listen. I listen with all my heart. I don't feel the compulsion to tell what to do. I used to. I knew everything. I was a nurse. And I love it. And it's love. It's love in action because it's loving this unit and respecting it because there is a body.

And it changes and it changes. I see my hand. It doesn't see me. It's that simple. I am the witness of that. But it's an energy and it's energy, call it God, call it the function, it's love. But it wants to grow and move and wriggle and change the forms and change the way of paths and create harmony and create serenity. But it does that by evening out extremes and not all at once because it's a big tangle of thoughts. But just to go back to this, how it is in my day-to-day life, and I don't think there's anything wrong with talking about that. I love, I'm talking into the suckers of my microphone, I love doing the dishes.

I love doing the dishes. You get in there and do those fucking dishes every day. No child wants to hear that nor do that, but that was the deal. So that was something I hated, but it's my home and I say to the ancestor, my house, my rules, fuck off, because I'm conditioned by this strong woman energy and it needs to tone down and I can, I can, and it takes closer to home. And there was a lady said something before about when she came to Bob and kept coming and coming and then as she got better the physicality disappeared She said I didn need to come so much And it a paradox The closer you come and the further you go to feel you coming to God yourself to feel you get away and don have that neediness That's shedding of ego, that's shedding of the suffering.

And there is a process. And there is a time. What process? In the story. In the story. Well there is and there isn't and it's like I don't think people believe I know that but it isn't. But you can watch, you can have some compassion about it and you can know when to act and most of the time you don't have to and the functioning then does take over but I love that Bob did have the courage to go Nisargadatta Maharaj, I love that you bring this teaching to us as an Australian. Right here, no fancy schmancy stuff, no swinging of incense. I love all that and I'll get into that.

I absolutely do and I love that whatever this function is, you're the teacher for right here and now because there is only here and now. And it's the resonance of that, that deep spiritual thing. And it's at this point I'd just like to say, for the people who held the space of this planet and understood the space between the objects for 70,000 years, thank you. And one last thing, but I have to go. The safest place in the universe, the safest place in the universe is now. Thank you. Thank you. I think if things are not being related to a center then they just move on and I think that was something I struggled with.

Is that fine? Is that right? I don't know. They don't... Yes. Is the resistance to negativity, the resistance to things I don't like that are coming up. And I always thought that was a stumbling block that, well, you know, I don't really see this I am a person who is not aware of the existence of the world. I Aam Tatha, I Aam Tatha, I Aam Tatha, the freedom lies. And it was a bit of a struggle to accept that, that yes, that is the lot of life, in a sense. And the only reason why it is good or bad is the labelling, and that relates to the me.

But if that's seen for what it is, it's free to move on. And all these simple pointers that Bob and so on... The The Those stories created by that mind are just the words the imaging And then to see that exactly as that, it sort of starts to tease it all, undo the whole thing. And that's a great thing to see operating in one's life. And thank you so much, Bob and Kat. Thank you. Thank you. I'll keep it simple, Bob, like you've kept it simple for me. Thank you for blowing my mind. I can't express how amazing it is that a half hour, 45 minute spiel can encompass so much, like literally millennia worth of teachings.

And make it simple enough for this little thing to, you know, hear at least some of the time. I'm just forever grateful for what you've given all of us and yeah it's just simplicity is best and you know I kept looking at these cards on the wall I mean this encompasses everything so thank you and I love you all thank you. Love you. And just a quick one regarding the cards. I didn't realize they will be mentioned. We have people in America who are actually working on digitalizing them and they might be available very soon for those who don't want to carry the heavy box like this.

Although the whole Bob's teachings is summarized in the box, so for those who don't like books, it is an incredible, incredible piece of art where you have every one liner of Bob's put beautifully. But we'll have it in a digital version that will be linked. I'll make it as cheap as I can so there will be no profits just for the server space to be paid on eBay. And check the website. You don't have to carry the half a kilo box. Just flip it on if you have an access. So that's that. And now Lindsay? One more song. One more song. This is a request from Jane and she suggested that I sing this song.

Rumi song, the Rumi song, and everyone can join in, very simple. Well, Kavisha will be singing Rumi's song. Beyond ideas around doing, beyond ideas right doing, There is a field, a beautiful field, A Mishiv'el, A Mishiv'el. Lez<|id|> Chedem Dargan Hesham Dan Jumar I am a beautiful field, a beautiful field, I'll meet you there, I'll meet you there. The only ideas are wrong doing The only ideas are right doing There is a field, a beautiful field I'll meet you there, I'll meet you there I feel you feel I'll meet you there I'll meet you there. Salila says, all is vibrating beautifully, I would not want it any other way, no separation.

This is an insight, I would not want it in any other way, so this is where there is no resistance to life. Thank you Salila no separation only love here Love here you are our biggest blessing sweet tears of love and beauty Thank you Kat for the blessings you are and with much appreciation affection always love Big hug Aidan Matija and Salila And ditto. And Kathy says, it is difficult to explain the difference Bob made almost 40 years ago living across the road from Jane when we met Bob and his understanding. I clearly remember coming home from the group and suddenly realizing what it was that was spoken about and what it was that I am.

And since that time my mind that was always asking why, why, why, slowly dissolved into the light of awareness. Thanks to Bob, thank you, love you Bob. And David says, tell Maggie I'll save the dishes for her. And Amarna says, words are wordless, thoughts are thoughtless. Anyone say something darling? And Jenny says, that was a good one. The safest place in the universe is now. And it is, and it is always here and now. There is no other experience, nothing. The future can't be experienced. Yeah, well, you know, that's in the story. You may have a broken leg, you may have a cancer. Yeah, absolutely.

Any sort of ailment, emotional or whatever, that in the story for the dream character, everything is valid, including medication, including pain medication. This is for the dream character, this is to be really loved and appreciated. But yes, in the present moment, what is wrong, what is sick, what needs healing? In the present moment, everything is perfectly resolved. Thank you for bringing it in. And now, looking is overlooked, says Amarnath. And I think I won't be able to actually read all of it. It's just, thank you everyone. Thank you for being here with us and thank you for reflecting that love back. And thank you for all the comments also that come on the Facebook group.

I read it thoroughly to Bob just to bring back, to show how many lives this dream character, I am a person who is not only a character, the same life, but through this character have made an impact. And I know of people who wake up every morning with the first thought of their minds being on the gratitude of the blessing of meeting Bob, because the life is like the dream before and after meeting Bob, and that's definitely my case too. That was the best decade of my life and it's still on. And life before Bob wasn't worth mentioning. So if anyone would like to have a last word that would be very quick, if not we're just gonna wrap it up and let the old man rest a little bit.

One more song maybe? Yeah, one more song? You happy, Bob? For one more song? Yes. Yes, yes, okay. Okay, here's a new one. Really easy. My name is love, my name is love, our true name is love, our true name is love. Our name is love, our name is love, our true name is love, our true name is love. We live to love. We live to love. We live to love, we live to love. Thank you for your support. Thank you everyone.