Meditation – The liberating understanding
12/22/2024
Listen to the Audio
Watch the Video
Transcript of the Meditation
Welcome, everyone. Lovely to see you.
So a reminder, that this meeting will start with a 15, 20 minute guided meditation, and then we can explore whatever questions you may have.
So sit comfortably and, welcome, welcome your experience just as it appears to you. Complete relaxation. Nothing that you need to do.
No objective. No effort.
Notice without any judgment whatever thoughts appear to you, whatever perceptions appear to you.
Everything which appears to you, appears to you effortlessly.
Nothing that you need to do.
Every moment appears to you in its totality. Meaning, there is nothing missing, nothing lacking.
Every perception, every sensation appears in the spaciousness of knowingness, of awareness.
Which is untouched, untainted, unstained by whatever appears.
And this knowingness, this awareness, is your very being.
I am and I am aware are sufficient.
There is no need to add any narrative to being awareness.
Like the wide open sky. This knowingness, this aware presence is borderless.
Notice, your borderlessness, your formlessness.
The peace.
Because there is no opposition. The opposing mind is quiet.
It is rendered quiet by the understanding that I am this formless, invisible to the senses, edgeless, borderless awareness.
Unaffected by the mind.
Unaffected by thinking, remembering… Unaffected by whatever sensations arise within the body mind.
The mind is liberated from its habit of maintaining the me-narrative, the me-story, maintaining the belief that I am a mortal body-mind entity.
The body-mind is like images on the screen or clouds in the wide open sky.
Which appear, taking on a variety of forms, a variety of shapes.
Keep changing and morphing.
The wide open sky is undisturbed.
The understanding that I am not that which appears on the screen of awareness.
I am not defined by thoughts and perceptions and sensations.
The understanding that this formless awareness is impersonal, because there is no person anywhere outside of the belief in one.
Take a look.
Can you find any person outside of memories and thoughts and sensations?
Why define yourself using thoughts and memories and perceptions?
Does the ocean define itself by the shape and the size of the waves?
The understanding that this formless awareness is REAL.
It’s not a passing thought or a passing dream. It is that within which all dreams pass, but which does not pass.
The understanding about one reality.
Formless, non-phenomenal.
Because all phenomena exist in time and space with a beginning and ending.
How could there be two formless realities?
The understanding that Reality is not in time.
And it is you!
Not you referring to what you imagine yourself to be, what you remember yourself to be, what you would like yourself to be, what you believe yourself to be.
No! You, the reality of knowingness, the reality of being.
Not you, the narrative.
Narrative belongs to the body. The body which is born in such and such a location, such a such point in time, within a tribe, with a history.
Such narratives belong to the body-mind, but they do not belong to you.
You are narrative free.
You are the narrator, creator and the perceiver, the editor in chief.
The only game in town.
Everything that you think about yourself is false. Everything that you think about your body maybe may apply, may have some validity.
But thought cannot comprehend a thinker. It is the thinker which comprehends thought.
The I does not perceive itself.
The liberating understanding is composed of two dimensions:
First is I am Consciousness and not that which appears. I Am Presence, Awareness, and not the images on the screen.
And this I, there’s only one I. This I is universal.
I am thou and thou are I.
There’s only one reality. Which cannot be divided.
The body mind and all what is happening in your life appears to you is not happening to you. It is happening on the screen of awareness. And this happening is a non-happening.
It is the illusion of happening, like the magician pulling rabbits out of the hat, or cutting the lady in two with a saw.
It’s an illusion. Just take a look at your night dreams.
Notice all the events that are happening, seemingly, because in fact nothing is happening. All the travels and all the events of your night dream reveal themselves to be nothing at all upon your waking up.
Do not give power to the waking state. It is nothing more than a dream state. Within this dream state, you are contemplating yourself. Consciousness is contemplating itself.
So you can wake up in the dream and realize that the dream is appearing in you, and that you have never actually been an entity in the dream.
Liberation awaits you.
Hold on to no-thing, As best you can.
Gently, be kind to yourself and others.
So, if you have any questions, you’re welcome to first unmute yourself and you can raise your hand. As well, you have the option at the bottom of the screen to the React icon; it allows you to also raise your hand.
So any questions?
You’re welcome to turn on your video if you care to, this way I can see you, if you feel like it.
