Don't Believe This ... LOOK For Yourself

A.C. Writes, There is way more peace now. Still back and forth. But more "back" than "forth". Last night after reading the quote below ...

"Most people's activities are valueless, if not outright destructive. Dominated by desire and fear, they can do nothing good. Ceasing to do evil precedes beginning to do good. Hence the need for stopping all activities for a time, to investigate one's urges and their motives, see all that is false in one's life, purge the mind of all evil and then only restart work, beginning with one's obvious duties." – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

With no desire or fear, there seems to me nothing that can be done. If the business website is updated or anything for business is done it is from a desire to make the business better. Without fear there seems to be no desire. Without the desire to give a gift, no gift would be bought. Without desire there seems to be no fear. Good and Evil. Without the "I" there seems to be no "good" or "evil". Any word that could be shared would be appreciated for I feel the hamster wheel beginning to turn.

Be careful NOT to take the pointers or words of any "sage" or "book" as some truth to be believed! Where is any believer? Where is a person who is attached to or avoiding any desire or fear?

You wrote "It seems to me that there is nothing to be done." Where is this "me?" Does it exist? Do you take a momentary appearing then disappearing movement of energy arising as letters m and e forming into a word "me" to be what you are? That is the only error. The ONLY mistake is to take your Eternal Self to be a temporary thought!

And ... It is NOT that there is "nothing to be done." There is NO-ONE. Then all "doing" happens as always, with no do-er and no effort of thought or emotion... This no-desire no-fear is YOU as What-You-Really-Are and ALL the rest starting from "me" is a dream-like appearance on the Screen of Presence-Awareness and THAT THOU ART.

Given THAT ... what there is in so-called "life" is... ACT as if "you" have free will. Act as if you have control knowing full well that all ideas of a "me" with control or free will are the dream of Being Itself.

Acting as if you have free will is simple... "you" have been doing that your whole life. Knowing yourself as Presence-Awareness and even before That the Absolute is NOT a belief and is NOT a "personal matter." As long as there is a seeming person let that person act in its own self-interest... just do what is next as if you can decide or do...

Who Is This "me?"

No-one no-where and that is the Real.

Let ‘er rip!