meditations 1

One of the incredible tantrics of this age, George Gurdjieff, says that recognizable proof is the lone sin. The following sutra, the 10th sutra on focusing — which we will enter around evening time — is worried about ID. So first be perfectly clear on what recognizable proof methods. You were a youngster once; presently you are not. Somebody gets youthful, somebody gets old, and adolescence turns into something past. Youth has gone, yet you are related to your adolescence. You can't consider it to be going on to another person; you can't be an observer to it. At whatever point you see your adolescence, you are not detached from it, you are unified with it. At whatever point somebody recollects his childhood, he is unified with it. 

Truly, presently it is only a fantasy. What's more, in the event that you can consider your to be as a fantasy, as a film passing before you and you are not related to it, you are only an observer, you will accomplish an extremely unobtrusive knowledge into yourself. In the event that you see your past as a film, as a fantasy — you are not piece of it, you are barely out of it. 

.. furthermore, truly you are — at that point numerous things will occur. On the off chance that you are considering your youth, you are not in it — you can't be. The youth is only a memory, only a previous memory. You are staying standoffish and taking a gander at it. You are unique: you are an observer. Assuming you can feel this seeing and, consider your to be as a film on a screen, numerous things will occur. 

One: assuming youth has become quite recently a fantasy which you can see, at all you are a few seconds ago will turn into a fantasy the following day. In the event that you are youthful, your childhood will turn into a fantasy. On the off chance that you are old, your mature age additionally will turn into a fantasy. One day you were a youngster; presently the youth has become recently a fantasy and you can notice it. 

It is nice to begin with the past. Notice the past and disidentify yourself from it; become an observer. At that point notice the future, at all you envision about the future, and be an observer to that too. At that point you can notice your present effectively, on the grounds that then you realize that at all is available a few seconds ago was future yesterday, and tomorrow it will end up being the past. Yet, your observer is rarely past, never future. Your seeing awareness is interminable; it isn't essential for time. That is the reason all that occurs in time turns into a fantasy. 

Recall this additionally: at whatever point you are dreaming something in the night you become related to it, and you can easily forget in your fantasy that this is a dream.Now it is a fantasy; presently it is just a fantasy, on the grounds that similarly as the fantasy turns into a memory, your past has become quite recently a memory. You can't demonstrate actually that at all you believe was your adolescence was genuine or simply a fantasy. It is hard to demonstrate. It might have been recently a fantasy, it might have been genuine. The memory can't say whether it was genuine or a fantasy. Analysts say that elderly people men sometimes get befuddled between what they have envisioned and what was genuine. 

Kids consistently get befuddled. Toward the beginning of the day, little youngsters can't separate. At all they have found in the fantasy was not genuine, but rather they may sob for a toy obliterated in the fantasy. What's more, you additionally, for a couple of seconds after rest is broken, are as yet influenced by your fantasy. On the off chance that somebody was killing you in the fantasy, despite the fact that your rest is broken and you are wide alert, your heart actually thumps quick, your blood flow is quick. You might be as yet sweating, and an unpretentious dread is still there floating around you. Presently you are alert and the fantasy has passed, yet you will require a couple of moments to feel that it was essentially a fantasy and that's it. 

At the point when you can feel that it was a fantasy, at that point you are out of it and there is no dread. 

In the event that you can feel that the past was only a fantasy — you are not to project this and power the possibility that the past was only a fantasy, it is a result — on the off chance that you can notice this; in the event that you can know about it without engaging in it, without being related to it; on the off potential for success that you can have unapproachable and take a gander at it, it will end up being a fantasy. Anything that you can take a gander at as an observer is a fantasy. 

That is the reason Shankara and Nagarjuna could say that this world is only a fantasy. Not that it IS a fantasy; they were not nitwits, not blockheads saying this world really is a fantasy. They implied by saying this that they have become observers. Indeed, even to this world which is so genuine, they have become observers. What's more, when you become an observer of anything, it turns into a fantasy. That is the motivation behind why the world is called MAYA, a fantasy. It isn't that it is incredible, yet that one can turn into an observer to it. Also, when you become an observer — mindful, completely mindful — the entire thing drops very much like a fantasy for you, on the grounds that the space is there and you are not related to it. In any case, we continue being distinguished. 

Only a couple days before I was perusing Jean Jacques Rousseau's Admissions. This is an uncommon book. It is actually the primary book in world writing in which somebody uncovers himself, absolutely bare. At all transgressions he has submitted, at all indecency, he opens himself up, absolutely bare. 

In any case, on the off chance that you read the Admissions of Rousseau you will undoubtedly feel that he is appreciating it; he feels particularly happy. Discussing his transgressions, discussing his corruptions, he feels thrilled. It appears as though he is appreciating it with much relish. In the first place, in the presentation, Rousseau says, "When the most recent day of judgment will come, I will say to God, to the all-powerful, 'You need not fret over me. Peruse this book and you will know it all.'" 

Nobody before him has at any point admitted so honestly. What's more, toward the finish of the book he says, "All-powerful God, interminable God, satisfy my lone craving. I have admitted everything; presently let a major group assemble to tune in to my admissions." 

So it is properly speculated that he may have admitted a few sins additionally which he has not submitted. He feels so cheerful and he is appreciating the entire thing. He has gotten recognized. Also, there is just one sin which he has not conceded to — the transgression of being distinguished. With at all wrongdoing he has perpetrated or not carried out he is distinguished, and that is the solitary sin for the individuals who know profoundly how the human psyche functio 

Just toward the beginning of the day, when you have stirred from the fantasy, would you be able to recall that it was a fantasy and not a reality. Why? Since then you are detached, not in it. At that point there is a hole. Some space is there, and you can see that it was a fantasy. 

Be that as it may, what is your entire past? The hole is there, the space is there. Attempt to consider it to be a dream.When interestingly he perused his admissions among a little gathering of learned people, he was feeling that something earthshaking would occur, in light of the fact that he was the primary man to admit so honestly, as he said. The intelligent people tuned in, and they turned out to be increasingly exhausted. 

Rousseau felt extremely uncomfortable in light of the fact that he was thinking something extraordinary planned to occur. At the point when he finished, they all felt mitigated, yet nobody said anything. There was finished quietness for a couple of seconds. Rousseau's heart was broken. He was imagining that he had made an exceptionally progressive thing, earthshaking, chronicled, and there was basically quiet. Everybody was simply pondering how to move away from that point. 

Who is keen on your transgressions aside from yourself? Nobody is keen on your ideals, nobody is keen on your wrongdoings. Man is with the end goal that he gets thrilled, he gets fortified in his inner self, by his excellencies and by his wrongdoings moreover. In the wake of composing Admissions, Rousseau started to think himself a savvy, a holy person, since he had admitted. In any case, the fundamental sin remained. The fundamental sin is being related to happenings on schedule. At all occurs in time is illusory, and except if you get unattached from it, not related to it, you won't ever understand what ecstasy is. 

ID is wretchedness; non-ID is rapture. This 10th method is worried about ID.