The most profound and refreshing way to live is to recognize, now and always, that we are not separate from life, but life itself. We are the very source of existence, the invisible and hidden living intelligence, breathing and expressing cell by cell as body, mind, thought, feeling, and emotion. Everything we experience is nothing but this living intelligence revealing itself in countless forms.
The moment this truth is seen, life is no longer “mine” or “yours.” The doer dissolves. The individual identity fades away. There is no separate person living life; there is only life living itself through us. The same intelligence that moves the stars is breathing as us, seeing as us, loving as us.
All that is happening is the effortless expression of the one source of life, the invisible, boundless, living intelligence. Nothing is personal, yet everything is deeply intimate. Nothing is separate, yet everything is sacred.
To live with this awareness is one of the rarest and most profound ways of living in human history. It is to live as truth itself, as freedom itself, as the silent miracle of existence recognizing itself in every moment.
After Satsang with Ammani, I asked the helper if she still kept Daniela’s flask, which she had forgotten here. She stillkept it in a room on the rooftop. I drove back towards Perumbakkam Road. I thought about having a look at this bakery next to Wild Child. I haven’t been there before. They are selling different kinds of bread and croissants. I bought a small black bread; I forgot what she said about the consistency. And also a chocolate-almond roll. I would try it later. I still have the Pizza from yesterday in the fridge.
After visiting the bakery, I stopped at Da Mantra Cafe for a juice. I had a carrot parrot, a juice with carrot, apple, and ginger. It took a while to be served; the place is still quite busy in February. It was just delicious.
Back home, I was eating half of the Pizza and the chocolate-almond roll. There was enough food for lunch. I had my sacred nap for some time. It happens nowadays that I sleep for two hours sometimes; sometimes it is less.
In the late afternoon, I spent some time in the Ashram, joined the reading, and met Max there. Before leaving the Ashram, I was buying the book ‘Talks’. That’s the book that the Indian Swami is reading from every afternoon. I made an appointment with Dani and Alex. We met in Hotel Ananda Ramana for dinner. Goran, a friend of theirs, was also there. We all had special Dosa.
I forgot Dani’s flask in my scooter, so we went there after dinner, and I could give it to her.
Back in my apartment, I was resting, reading and watching an old James Bond movie. It is fun to see old movies and to realise how the technology and also the conversations changed over the decades. Every decade has a typical wording to express the same topics. Looking into the past, it always looks old-fashioned. But that’s how life evolves.
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