Meditation – Am I a local body mind?
03/16/2025
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Transcript of the Meditation
Hello, everyone.
Lovely to be with you.
A reminder that, the first part of this meeting will be a guided meditation, and after that, you’re welcome to explore whatever questions, you may have.
So if you can sit comfortably, and, you’re welcome to either close your eyes or turn your gaze inward.
And, welcome your experience just as it appears without a need to do anything, without trying to figure anything out or trying to improve your experience. Simply be comfortable and notice the inner tranquility.
You can turn your attention towards the gentle breath, this subtle movement.
And, be welcoming, meaning do nothing.
Whatever appears to you, whether it’s a a thought, an image, or a bodily sensation, appears to you of its own without any effort.
There is, no one doing anything.
If a thought appears, you don’t need to grasp onto it or entangle yourself in it.
It’s an impersonal event appearing and dissolving in the spaciousness of awareness.
Bodily sensations similarly appear in this effortless vastness.
There is no personal entity doing anything; just, mind impressions.
Notice, the peace, the tranquility, the causeless causeless peace,
which is not the result of any activity. It’s just there for the noticing.
It invites you to relax and release and let go.
Then, if you like, scan your body and notice if there are any holding on any places within your body where there is a certain tightening.
You don’t need to judge it. Simply invited to relax and release.
It’s a natural tendency for the body to rest and relax, when it is not needed to perform any task, like, during this meeting here.
There may be habits within the body where we hold on. It’s a tightness, a tightening.
It’s okay. We we’re not going on a hunt because that’s too much work. So gentle scanning, loving.
There’s a sweetness to it an interest.
Notice the bodily sensations appear to you.
Like, the sensation of your feet on the ground or your back, against the couch or the chair.
There is no effort required in perceiving these sensations.
The gentle movement of the breath or the heartbeat, all these sensations appear.
They appear to you. In other words, they appear in awareness.
You you are this, effortless awareness.
You may perceive an image, an image of yourself. I don’t know, maybe a memory of when the body mind was 12 year old. Various images of the body-mind. Memories.
Then they dissolve. Maybe a different image may follow.
You don’t need to define yourself by the images which appear to you.
In fact, you don’t need to define yourself in any way. What for?
You already are that, which you are, which we refer to as this effortless awareness, consciousness, presence, being.
Which is formless, ageless, genderless, nonlocal.
Are you that which you perceive? Or are you the perceiving element?
Are you the images? Are you the sensations? Are you the memories which appear to you and disappear?
Take a look right now. Are you defined by that which you are perceiving, or are you the perceiving element?
Homeless, genderless, borderless, limitless.
The body appears to you. It appears to you via the mind. Time and space.
Nineteen sixty, nineteen ninety, twenty twenty five. What is it right now? What is what is Sunday, 03/06/2025 right now?
Do you do you exist in time? Are you decaying minute by minute, second by second?
What is it that is decaying? What is decay when the mind is quiet and still?
One could say that the body-mind changes over time.
We could say that from the human mind perspective.
But are you decaying? Are you changing over time?
You could say, oh, yes. I have changed over time.
When I was 12 year old, I believed in fairies, now I don’t.
But you’re just talking about the mind of a 12 year old and the mind of a 50 year old.
Of course, the mind constantly changes. Two thousand years ago, we didn’t know too much about AI. Cell phone. Storing data in the cloud. I still don’t I still haven’t figured that one out.
But we are not talking about the mind. Right?
We’re talking about I. You. What is what is I in this moment? What are you? What is it that is hearing these words? Was it a female that is hearing these words or a male that is hearing these words?
What is just hearing? Awareness, consciousness taking on the form of sound and hearing.
We are so used to identify with the body-mind. A cute five year old girl or five year old boy. We are so cute as a body mind.
So we learn that I am a male or a female entity. Are you?
Can you explore this question? I’m not in the body-mind, which I perceive.
Am I the sensations which I perceive? Am I defined by the body-mind which appears to me? Am I my house? Am I my car? Am I my bank account? Am I the thoughts which appear to me?
What is it in your experience? Right now, in every moment that is uncaused, that does not come and go, that is not subject to time and space.
It is so liberating to be free from identification.
To live from that freedom and to live as that freedom, Freshness of being, the innocence, the spontaneity.
Not to be burdened by the past and by the me stories, which limit us.
Heavy, heavy stuff. Old arguments and old family stuff and disputes among friends and partners.
What is the freshness, the lightness, the beauty, the joy when we are carrying the past?
And worrying about the future. Is it possible to be not knowing?
To be undefined and not to accumulate stuff, mind stuff, worldly stuff, not to accumulate.
Because effortlessly and naturally, everything dissolves in the source, arises from the source and dissolves in the source without accumulation.
The conditioned mind imposes artificial conditions.
It spoils the party.
So if you have any questions, anything that you would like to explore, make sure to unmute yourself, and you can raise your hand, or use the React icon at the bottom of the screen to also raise your hand if you’d like to.
You’re welcome to turn on your videos as I always enjoy seeing you.
So any questions?
