Meditation – How do we come around to be here?
04/28/2024
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So welcome, everyone.
Is there too much glare in the image, or is that okay? So so. I’m wondering. Maybe Is this maybe a little bit better? Not really. No? Okay. Well…
So, Welcome yourself. And yourself is the totality.
So in welcoming yourself, you’re welcoming everything.
Without knowing it, without, defining it, without, categorizing it.
So it’s a sort of an open welcoming. Without a goal, without a personal purpose.
In such a welcoming, there is an alignment with our true nature.
Which is always open. This borderless presence.
It’s an innocent presence; fresh, childlike.
And we are invited to this peaceful awareness, which is always on board, always on.
And this entire dream of a human, the human dream, is about the understanding about awareness.
Which is the understanding about reality, about truth, about love.
It’s quite magical to be here, meaning to be aware.
Because what is it to be here without awareness?
And that’s the big secret.
That which never leaves us. That which is and cannot not be, this ordinary awareness, is the big secret.
And it reveals itself to itself, whenever we are aware, that we are aware.
It reveals itself to itself when it is aware that it is aware, and that it is the only awareness in town.
And being the one and only, changeless aspect. And it is the one and only reality.
And this awareness is not separate from you, because it is you that is aware, and you can only be aware because you are awareness.
You couldn’t be aware if you were anything else than awareness. If you were non-awareness, you couldn’t be aware.
So you’re aware because you are awareness.
And we are here to make this discovery and to navigate deeper and deeper within this understanding.
And as we navigate deeper and deeper in this understanding, the illusion of separation dissolves in the understanding.
And this understanding belongs to awareness, belongs to you.
And the understanding about awareness is only possible because you are awareness and you know it.
You know awareness because you are it, or else you could not understand it.
And awareness is love, because love is non-dual, and awareness is non-dual. The absence of separation.
So whenever we love, we recognize love, we are recognizing wholeness, we are recognizing oneness.
I recognize myself as yourself.
In this life, each one of us comes with a me-download; so many versions of the same belief in a physical material reality.
But we also come endowed with intelligence and reasoning and capacity for introspection and contemplation.
Which is an important tool for awakening from the illusion of separation.
Everything you perceive and you experience is a composition.
Like an artist composes various pieces of art, sculptures, paintings, musical, symphonies.
And these perceptions, these compositions, they are constantly changing, which is quite astonishing.
But awareness is the same, the same transparent knowingness.
It is freedom. Freedom from time and space. Freedom from psychological concerns and negative emotions.
It’s a brand new life.
This shift from the personal self to God’s Being.
You perceive all sorts of body-mind events. But you are untouched.
Because your freedom, your Being is established in itself.
It’s not dependent on the past, or the future, or on any condition.
The sensations and your body are floating in the infinite space; infinite Space of awareness.
Completely free, unbound. There’s no personal will to complicate things.
We are in harmony with the Divine Will, with the Universal Will.
Because we are completely not-knowing.
The simplicity of awareness. Directness.
I am, and I know that I am. How clear and how simple?
I don’t know what I am. How freeing it is to simply know oneself as being, which is not conceptual.
It’s being, knowing that it is, and knowing that it knows. It’s non dual.
It cannot be captured in words or by the mind in any way. There’s such freedom and simplicity.
Because the mind complicates things, when it comes to these matters.
How uncomplicated, how simple, how clear, and how pure is a smile.
A giggle with laughter, the feeling of warmth or coolness, the absence of any resistance.
It is said that the greatest secret is hidden in plain sight.
The screen of awareness. It is not hidden to itself. It is always shining.
I know I’m aware. How complicated is that?
Nothing missing.
Because in the now, in presence, there is no past and future.
There is a wholeness, a completeness, a formless Totality.
It is always there.
