Meditation – Before the mind, what is it that is truly alive?
03/05/2024
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Hello, everyone. Lovely to see you and to be with you.
You’re welcome to either close your eyes or turn your gaze inward.
And welcome your experience as it is Without knowing Without history, Without a goal.
Allowing being to be And to express itself As hearing these words As perceiving a bodily sensation or a thought.
It is quite magical This inner availability This open listening It’s quite a miracle
The miracle of consciousness Impersonal awareness
And we are that
When the mind is quiet There is the other That otherness which is closer than close
Our intimacy
There is that which is primordial in our experience Which knows itself Which is not a narrative That to which a narrative appears
This wide open space of awareness Non-phenomenal The peace The peace of being The peace of awareness
Thoughts come and go They appear out of the vastness Out of that which does not appear
And they refer to I I, meaning the reality which perceives All phenomenal events refer to I They refer to this invisible presence This formless reality Which is life This invisible reality
That which simultaneously creates and perceives
That which has no beginning and no ending Not subject to any conditions Not the result of any activity
This awareness, consciousness, is Life And there is no separate entity In spite of a personal narrative In spite of memories and preferences Recollections A belief in a separate entity
In spite of such a belief And in spite of the me-narrative Which appears to awareness There is no separate entity in fact No separate me No separate other
So what am I? In the absence of separation… I am!
There is no somebody for me to be No someone Just being knowing itself
Knowing amness is And this amnes is aware
It is this aware amness which is life which we call life
Not the mountains and the rivers Not the galaxies Because the mountains and the rivers Refer to consciousness
They are reflections of the sunlight on the surface of the pond These reflections refer to the sun Refer to the sunlight
So the world-body-mind is a reverberation of life The movement of the unmovable The motion of the motionless
But this motion is not a true motion From point A to point B Because in the ocean Both point A and point B are the ocean The one reality
So allow yourself to be carried By the wind of not-knowing
The wind of not-knowing knows best Like children coming together to play in the sandbox
Can we be gentle and kind with each other? This sweet playfulness Without engaging in winning and losing But to be playful Transparent To be uncertain
There’s only one thing we are certain of Which is “Being Is” and cannot not be
And that this being is this one reality
One totality One embrace One heart
All is one
So we are available for this understanding to deepen To manifest itself in our life
It’s an active manifestation We move the pieces according to the principles of wisdom and love.
That is very beautiful
