Meditation – Being/awareness is our ordinary experience
02/26/2023
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lovely to see you to be with you
to be with you as presence to be with you as yourself to be with you without being somebody to be with you without knowing you to be with you without knowing what I am yet happy
happy in being and happy as being being without knowing
so welcome welcome yourself as myself welcome yourself as the self
as the only reality reality welcoming itself loving itself loving its creation and its creativity
so welcome
we invite ourself and invite each other to be not knowing
to be this open space this open loving effortlessly loving space
that perceives through all perceptions directly from the heart to the heart
your heart recognizing itself and loving itself
bodies appear they change thoughts appear and change sensations feelings memories
in movement a flow that does not disturb our reality
that does not disturb our love for each other and our love for truth
how lovely it is to be
pure being undefined unconstrained
free from the past and the future and yet welcoming the past and the future as appearances as a play
the play of mind the play of perception the play of memory
not being disturbed not trying to get somewhere not trying to achieve anything for somebody
but for everybody
what we can achieve for everybody is the recognition of our Oneness of our totality of our wholeness the recognition of our true self 5:00 as love not from one person to another person but love eternal
when we are not assuming ourselves to be a man a woman to be somebody
there is freedom freedom from any assumptions from any self-definition which comes from the past
you the reality of consciousness the reality of awareness do not exist in time
you are not a stream of thoughts you are not a bundle of sensations and feelings you are not historical
our essential nature this moment and every moment is this simple effortless presence our ordinary awareness
which is invisible phenomenally but it is known as I am as I am aware
a non-phenomenal recognition awareness recognizing itself knowing itself
independent of the senses independent of memory independent of perception independent of direct recognition
a direct knowingness
our essential nature is effortless ordinary awareness is that which is extraordinary
that we know we are
that we know we are aware
is that not magical this simple knowingness
which does not need to rely on anything
Enlightenment is not some extraordinary experience and a bolt of lightning there may be some aha moments 9:57 throughout our life that reveal our true nature but our true nature is this moment and every moment how could you get away from that which you are
how could you be anything else but that which you are which is not something which appears to you which is not the body which is not a mind which is not a story which appears to you
but the reality of perception the reality that perceives the reality that knows itself how could you be anything else but that
sometimes we expect some magic show something fantastic happening
we seek we expect a very special experience what sort of self-torture is that
dissing this aware presence our natural state our natural effortless reality dissing this reality in exchange for some extraordinary mindset extraordinary experience that we can be proud of
can we simply relax as presence let go of the past of the future of all this knowledge accumulative knowledge and be innocent to be fresh
no script just this moment the moment of being of presence how could it be that this is not sufficient
it can only appear insufficient when we are expecting something else and our expectations they come from the past they come from memory they come from stories and tails
and they are full of disappointment expectation and disappointment they go hand in hand
can we simply be as we are this effortless presence not knowing not accumulating not defining ourselves not defining the other
like the blooming of a flower the rose is blooming
This Moment In This Moment in each fresh moment each moment complete freshness
no story not trying to become beautiful not trying anything
out of the way allowing the universe to Bloom as it wishes
everything which appears appears within Consciousness within awareness
that which is changeless in your experience that which is not in time in your experience that is your true self 14:57 which is not a body which is not a mind
that which without which there can be no body and no mind
essential the essence that which cannot not be
you are lacking nothing as consciousness as reality
you will only experience lack whenever you define yourself in some phenomenal manner
but what if you don’t
what if you leave the stage open as it is
allowing the universe to do its universing which is consciousness consciousnessing
we don’t need to separate anything
the mind can make distinctions and that’s fine no issue with that
but don’t confuse distinctions to refer to separation
the waves that appear on the surface of the ocean they’re distinct but the reality is water one in reality
so is yours your reality as this infinite Invisible Presence
infinite invisible presence awareness
