Meditation – A meditative contemplation
08/07/2022
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okay welcome
so for the beginning of this meeting just sit comfortably in the welcome
welcome yourself welcome your experience without reference to the past without reference to
without any reference
a simple pure fresh
moment of being of presence
which is not trying to attain anything
it’s just uh resting as itself without defining yourself in any way
so that the body mind is restful
effortlessly restful
not trying to do anything
not trying to figure anything out
simply not knowing
which is not something that you need to know
in a way not knowing refers to our natural
natural way
restful restful not knowing resting
resting presence awareness
not complicated
in this restfulness there is no me or you no separate beings or separate characters
this presence is neither female nor male
one could say it’s alive
but not an object
the aliveness of being the amness the fullness
sometimes we say the full emptiness
being presence but not being somebody in time
not being a person a mother a father son daughter
but the eternity of being being the beingness which is not an appearance in
in time and space which takes on the form of this appearance but remains transparent remains non-phenomenal
and throughout your entire experience
being is presence
awareness is
formless transparent
borderless
08:47 the peace of being
at the heart at the core of being
is the peace which is gateless gateless peace
it permeates your entire experience once you allow it to
once you do not restrict or constrict the peace
with your beliefs
10:04 about who you are
beliefs about how things should be
beliefs about how how others should behave
the core belief that i am a person that i am a material form
overlooking the reality of consciousness
imagining consciousness to be a concept or to be some personal experience which it is not consciousness is the reality of experience
thoughts appear within consciousness within awareness
consciousness does not arise from a thought or from a feeling
some people say all there is this
and their personhood is hiding behind these statements the sense of me
their storyline is important to them
becomes a new subtle identity
very tricky
the peace of being is not personal
because there is no person in fact
15:05 outside of the belief in feeling
that we take for evidence that there is a person
the stream of thoughts and the stream of feelings
but in fact there never has been a personal consciousness
never was and never has been or never will be personal freedom personal peace because there has never been a person
the revelation that there is no person opens the gate
which has always been open
in fact there’s never been a gate
the gateless gate from from what to what from where to where
from a troubled mind to a peaceful mind
from confusion to tranquility to clarity
from a sense of concern to deep satisfaction causeless
what what stands in the way
there’s a hurdle that we’re trying to jump over who’s who’s jumping over the hurdle what is this hurdle
something that appears to you
how could anything that appears to you coud be behind your very own being to your own knowingness
i am the reality which perceives
the reality which is the reality of consciousness
19:30 each moment is a fresh moment
causeless freedom joy of being
