Exploring Non Duality
A room from Airchat's 2023 version, recorded as a video. The room's name is the title; the transcript below follows the video, and every time in it plays the video from that point.
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0:00 So you have to just give up the concept of the seeking and the things you know, because you cannot define what is unknown, and the only tools you have are the ones which are not done for the job, and you're only doing it intellectually, when the thing which you're trying to seek is something which is not intellectual at all. So it's the same thing like I'm saying to you, don't think about pink elephant, and the thing you do is exactly that, you're thinking of pink elephant, and that's the same thing when people are seeking. And when it's said that don't think, don't use your fear, don't use your mind, don't think, don't conceptualize, don't put it to anything, just observe, just let it be, but that's the only thing the mind knows, and that's the concept which keeps it.
0:59 And that's the fear in itself, the fear of losing itself, which is not really real, but that's the only thing you know. So give up the concept. The paradox of the situation is that you are only looking downstream, but in order to realize you should move upstream, walking backwards, and you cannot turn around. And on the downstream, it's like a lossy information flow, and it's just not good enough, it's just nothing you should use. But in order to turn around and shatter the illusion, you have to do something which is completely unnatural for you, and you're using the wrong tools for the job.
1:54 It just doesn't work. So, I'm not saying that you should do it,