Q: Why once I get something I want, the good feeling doesn’t last?
MICHAEL: This is how the seeking mind is… once it gets what it thinks it wants, it’s designed to lose interest so that seeking will continue. Wash, rinse, repeat. It’s endless.
This is why no object (person, place, thing, thought, feeling, experience, etc.) can make us happy indefinitely. Because new is valued over known by the mind. And yet the kicker is nothing is actually truly knowable! Nobody knows what THIS is, as THIS has never stopped changing so there is nothing solid that can ever be known. In Zen it’s said, “To know is not really to know. To not know, is to know.”
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The seeker is a phantom. It’s the illusion of separation. And that seeker… there’s no hope for that one. The seeker is hopeless. Because if everything is Wholeness, where are you going to seek for Wholeness?… if there’s only Wholeness?
Wholeness can appear as anything and yet is never not Whole. This can’t be figured out by the mind. It’s a silent, still, intuitive resonance… for no one.
JOAN: Are you talking about ownership?
MICHAEL: There is no one there to own. There is no owner of anything. The idea that there is is called suffering. The me, which doesn’t exist, imagines it does exist, and it’s an owner, and a claimer, and a seeker. And all those are false. If it doesn’t exist, how can it own anything?
So you can’t let go of guilt. You can’t let go of shame. You can’t let go of all of these qualities. Why? Because you were never able to hold them! There’s no “you” there to hold them, so how are you going to let go of them?
“Could it be an assumption that you’re a me?”
This is like TNT. This is dynomite. This just obliterates the entire notion… it’s saying that all there is is the Beloved. And the Beloved is appearing as Everything; every form, every sound, every image.
Everything you think you’ve ever done was the Beloved moving through you. And however it turned out is exactly how it turned out. But no one did it.
THIS is IT! And it’s overlooked. So as long as you’re identified as the me, this moment will never be enough. Why? Because the me is seeking energy. It can’t see this as Wholeness because then the me is out of job, it’s done, it’s finished.
So to keep the dream of separation going, it can keep inventing new paths, new goals to get to. It’s endless. And it’s all an illusion because you’re not doing any of it. It’s doing everything; every movement, every breath, every hair… every molecule… it’s the dance, it’s the play. And it has no meaning, no purpose… it’s not going anywhere.
That’s the thing about this. There’s no path. And it’s saying this is what you’ve been looking for. It’s been right here in front of you the whole time. It’s hitting you in the face, but because you’re seeking, you miss it.
“What’s being searched for is simply this, what is, what’s appearing right now. The bird chirping… The wind blowing across your face. There is only wholeness disguised as everything.” -Michael
Michael Jeffreys is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. (For those that resonate with the nondual message.)
Topic: Satsang w/ Michael Time: Sep 23, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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That Life, this Moment, what IS, lacks anything is the me’s fantasy.
-Michael Jeffreys
p.s. From last Weds. Zoom Satsang (full video coming soon!):
MICHAEL: This is about freedom from imagining you’re a me because you’re not a me. You’re Life. You’re not separate from Life. And the me imagines it’s separate from life.
JOYCE: So I just realized it’s freedom from the attachment to what doesn’t exist.
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THIS, whatever appears to be happening, is boundlessly free energy appearing as literally everything. So a thought is energy, a feeling is energy, a body is energy, talking is energy, a wall is energy, depression is energy, an opinion is energy, this post is energy, every sound is energy, every image is energy, etc.
Everything is energy dancing spontaneously… and Nothing is doing it.
Michael Jeffreys “There’s only Freedom… disguised as Everything.” 9-9-20 Satsang
SATSANG NOTES
1. The me can come up with 50 things it doesn’t like about this moment. But the dilemma for the me is that this moment is all that ever IS. Just THIS. Just this happening. And it’s happening so fast, so fresh, so new, so vibrantly, that any stories we tell about it are just not true.
2. The trap is the mind actually thinks it knows what THIS is. That’s the suffering… “Because I know what this is, I know there’s something better. I don’t know what that something better is, but I just know this isn’t it.” That’s the me’s mantra.
3. Time is an illusion. Time is not real. You cannot show me time. And notice that you can’t show the me either. So we can say that the me IS time. TIME = ME.
Time doesn’t recognize the timeless. What’s time going to do with the timeless? It’s useless! It can’t do anything with the timeless. And so it rejects the only thing that IS, in search of what isn’t!?
Michael Jeffreys 