Just be your self, and you will be safe

1. Grass grows spontaneously, but we can imagine we are making it grow with our willpower. The same with the activities of our bodies.
    
2. Don't try to explain the Self, once you try to explain it, it is not it. Just be your self, and you will be safe. Don't be this and don't be that. Be yourself. Don't be a woman, don't be a man. Just be yourself.
    
3. Great sages have discovered that if you remove this personal "I" there will be no-one who will want to do anything. There will be total happiness, total love and total peace. Only remove the personal "I". The way to remove the personal "I" is to inquire: For whom does it come? What is it's source?
    
4. You don't have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you're driving your car, while you're at work, while you're playing music. Just be aware of yourself, of who you really are, and realize the rest is a projection of your mind.
    
5. It is enough to detach from them (thoughts) and ignore them. A simile would be, what happens to your friends whom you ignore. If you have a friend and the friend is talking to you, telling you things, and you ignore your friend, what happens? The friend will walk away. The friend will go away and that will be the end of the friend. And he or she will no longer be your friend. For you have ignored them totally, completely. You've not scolded them. You have not lectured your friend. You have not been evil to your friend. You have just ignored your friend. Your friend will back away and go away, because your friend gets no response from you whatsoever. This is how you want to treat your thoughts, same way.
    
6. You have to be totally honest with yourself. Totally honest. Completely honest with yourself to see the way you've been carrying on. To see how your thoughts have been ruling you. Your mind has been telling you, "This is like this and this is like that. This is good, this is bad. This is right, this is wrong.” Being judgmental all the time, this is what has to be given up, totally and completely.
    
7. When you sleep you transcend it. But when you are awake, the world exists. The world only exists because your mind exists, and your mind exists because your ego exists.
    
8. All levels and all teachings are an emanation of the mind, for there has to be someone to experience those levels. Vichara, or self-inquiry, goes right to the heart of the matter. It bypasses every system, negates every system, and awakens you immediately. The mind, as I, gives you the problem. When the mind, as I, goes, everything else goes with it, all of your past teachings, the world, the universe, God, reincarnation, karma. You become free of the whole mess and you awaken. So again, every system is a projection of the mind. You have to be present to do the work, whereas in this teaching we get rid of the you that does the work. So if the you is gone, there’s no work to be done. In other words, who has to meditate? I do. There has to be somebody present for you to meditate. Instead of meditating, ask yourself, "Who meditates?" and the answer will be, "I do.” Then, “Who am I?" and the lights will come on and you'll be free. Once the I goes there is nobody left to do any spiritual work, for you become consciousness. You become absolute reality, omnipresent, infinite.