Meditation – Being and Existence
06/19/2024
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Welcome everyone
Whenever we turn our attention to presence we are available available to the peace the causeless peace
That which does not know any problems That which is always available to us at this moment
No past No future
Simply being Without any agenda without any definition
Sensations appear to us: the heartbeat the breath the sound of traffic in the distance
Nothing is disturbed There is an absence of seeking That is our true home
Beingness the amness the I am
Which is not localized because in order to localize presence you need to formulate mind conditions in order to impose a structure or to impose some form or some definition unto yourself which is not necessary which is limiting
So here we are aware aware of being not of being somebody Simply aware of isness, of beingness Aware of awareness
It does not need to go any further
It is out of this spaciousness of awareness and within this spaciousness of awareness that this conversation is going on
It is within this awareness that sounds appear that sensations appear
Manifestation arises out of the unmanifest
Like your night dreams arise out of you They exist within you
You are this beingness, awareness which is creative every instant The waking state dream state the deep sleep state are your creation
Various manifestations of awareness
Like waves and bubbles on the surface of the waves and currents within the ocean
They exist within the ocean and they arise out of the ocean and they do not augment or diminish the ocean
Similarly, the world-body-mind thoughts, sensations, memories various perceptions they appear they exist within being within consciousness within reality
Like heat exists within fire
Being is untouched by existence which is the creation of being its creativity
So you recognize yourself not as an event not as something or someone existing in time and space
You are prior to existence
Time appears within the timeless
Timelessness is unaffected by time Like the screen of consciousness is unaffected by thoughts, sensations, perceptions which appear and disappear within that borderless space which you are which I am Being reality
Without a beginning and ending Without a story line Without a past and a future
The freedom of being the joy of being
So rather than referring to yourself as somebody with a history which applies to the body, to the body mind remain as you are
Without referring to yourself as anything without imagining yourself to be something or somebody
Whatever issues you may imagine you have or feel that you have are a result of defining yourself or identifying yourself as some limited entity
So we return over and over as needed to our understanding about I the formless, invisible reality
Universal which effortlessly perceives which knows it is and knows that it perceives
This understanding is the experience of freedom the experience of peace
What makes a symphony so delightful are not the notes but the intervals of silence
The silence which permeates the notes
