Andrew Cohen - N° 7 - LAST TEACHINGS - Dec. 24 _ Feb. 25

The experience in meditation doesn't matter. Doesn't matter whether there's form. Doesn't matter whether there's formlessness. Doesn't matter whether there's light. Doesn't matter whether there's dark. Doesn't matter what happens. You follow? When you're meditating, it doesn't matter what happens. What happens doesn't mean anything. It's all phenomena. It has no meaning. The only thing that matters is are you free? So that's why we practice, no relationship. If there's phenomena, no relationship. If there's no phenomena, no relationship. It's the same thing. No relationship. If you have no relationship to anything that arises, you'll experience freedom. If you experience attachment to phenomena, you won't be free. Be lost in phenomena. I like this feeling. I don't like that feeling. I like this picture. I don't like that picture. That's that's hell. So, if you're sitting quietly, you want to be busy with no relationship, which is zero. Not the experience of zero. No relationship. It doesn't matter what your experience is. When you're meditating, your experience doesn't matter. Are you practicing no relationship to thought, feeling, and memory? Don't be fascinated with the with the experience. The experience doesn't matter. You look at some people having so many crazy experiences around here. They're still crazy people. So it's not the experience we have doesn't matter. It's our relationship to the experience we're having. What is the relationship we have to our experience that's what's important? Not the experience. The experience doesn't matter. Doesn't make any difference. So oh I had so much bliss. say, "So what? So what? I don't care. I experience fear." So what? I don't care. If someone tells you they're experiencing bliss in meditation, but then the next day they're in a bad mood. They're not happy. Who cares? Doesn't have has no meaning. The bliss has no meaning if it's ephemeral. It's like the wind. It doesn't mean anything. So, we don't want to make a big deal about out of our experience. The experience doesn't mean anything. The experience doesn't mean anything. The experience doesn't mean anything. Do we have a liberated relationship to our experience? That's the question. Are you free? So, we don't want to be fascinated with the experience. Doesn't matter. Having nothing, knowing nothing, being no one, back to zero. No relationship is freedom. Relationship comes and goes, right? Does the truth come and go? So experience comes and goes. So we don't care about it. Are we are we steady and having no rel are we like a rock? No relationship is freedom. No relationship is freedom. No relationship is like a rock. Deeply relaxed. No attachment. Experience is a trap. It's trapping an ego trip also. So the question is, are you happy? Are you free? Are you content? Are you living at one with the truth? That's good. The rest doesn't matter. So we want to let everything go, baby. Go. Let it all go. Be very still. No relationship to experience, no relationship to mind, no relationship to emotion, no relationship to time, but we have to practice it. The eagle gets bored. If nothing's happening, the ego gets bored, right? So, it wants to a movie, wants to see a movie, wants to watch a cartoon, right? wants to wants to see a story. The ego ego gets bored. So, it needs to have experiences to watch to identify with. But your true self doesn't need any of those things. Experiences don't set you free. So many people in Tu who were with my guru had a great experience when they met him. I'm sure you know that. Where are they now? Lost, confused, wandering in a desert. You've had an experience 30 years ago. So, who cares? You have to be strong, babe. You have to be strong. It's just phenomena in the mind. It doesn't mean it doesn't mean It has no significance. It's just mental pictures. I understand mental phenomena doesn't mean anything. Just just just the pictures. No relationship. It doesn't mean anything. You won't find anything there. I know what I'm talking about. I mean it. So when you're meditating, you have to have no relationship. Be strong. Be courageous. No relationship. Because eventually you want to have no relationship to to you, to your ego, to your story. That's when it gets real. No relationship to your story. No relationship to your story. It's where all of your emotions are, your fears, your desires, your resentments, unresolved issues, your traumas. No relationship to any of that. That's the real work. If you do it, it really works. But you have to be very serious about it. It has to be like forever. You have to have a forever attitude about it. I mean this forever. I'm very serious. I mean I want to be free forever. Okay. I say this today. I'll say it tomorrow. I'll say it next week. I'll say it next month. I'll say it next year. I'll say it 10 years from now. Saying the same thing. And the more you can have no relationship, the better you you this is going to feel more strong, more fearless, more confident, more happy. No relationship to the content of consciousness equals joy. Follow. No relationship to the content of consciousness yields causeless causeless joy without cause. That spiritual happiness is causeless joy. Spiritual freedom is costless joy. Causeless joy is not connected to a story. Having nothing, knowing nothing, being no one. It's austerity. Austerity means embracing simplicity. Sacrificing complexity for simplicity. Practice no relationship. Don't think too much.