Meditation – Complete intimacy
03/02/2025
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Welcome, everyone. Welcome.
Lovely to be with you.
So for the first part of this meeting, invite yourself to simply be.
You’re welcome to close your eyes, or you can turn your gaze inward.
And, do nothing.
As best as you can, let go of the past and the future, because for now, they are not needed.
Simply notice your experience just as it is:
Sensations within your body.
The gentle breath, which is effortless.
There is nothing that you need to do.
Hearing appears to you. It appears and disappears.
A certain thought may appear to you.
A memory, an image.
It appears and disappears in a flash.
But you don’t appear and disappear.
Forms, shapes, sounds, perceptions are constantly shifting and changing, but you, meaning this simple, effortless awareness, neither appears nor disappears.
And it is peaceful.
Because there is nothing happening to this effortless awareness.
So you can invite yourself to rest as this effortlessness, without a goal, without an objective, without any limitation.
We can sink deeper and deeper into this non-doing.
The mind is invited to rest.
Because it is not needed right now.
It’s so lovely to be restful, not needing to do anything, exert any effort.
To be this timeless now, this timeless nowness, this timeless presence.
Where the mind is not engaged in resisting or seeking.
There’s no need to defend an image or to project an image.
There’s no need to regret or hope.
All of that requires effort.
We are so habituated to imagine ourself to be a separate entity, to be a person, a man, or a woman, some entity.
Yeah. So used to identify with the body, with the mind, which is limitation.
And as a result of this identification, we experience the sense of separation. And our innate intimacy is veiled by the belief that I’m a person, that I exist in time and space.
But what if you take a look at your experience right now?
Is there any real separation? Is the hearing right now separate from you in this moment?
What is the distance between you and the hearing of this voice? What is the distance between you and the sensation of your feet on the ground?
What is the distance between you and the thought which appears to you?
Because in this moment, you are not a person, a man or a woman, you are this effortless awareness. Changeless aspect of your experience.
I am aware, absolutely. It’s undeniable.
I being what? Isn’t this I which is aware awareness itself? I awareness. I’m aware.
I am aware of perceptions. I am aware of images. I am aware of thoughts. I am aware of memories. I am aware of bodily sensations. And I am aware that I’m aware.
How intimate is that?
The separation is imagined. In the conceptual realm, there is this and that, various forms: Nama Rupa, names and forms in the conceptual realm. It’s okay.
But the reality of your experience, take a look, is absolute intimacy.
Intimacy with the thought, intimacy with the sensation, intimacy of awareness.
Because awareness, consciousness, the reality which perceive is formless. It is not made out of things. Reality is absolute and therefore cannot be limited by any form, by any size, by any shape, which are limitations.
Intimacy is formless and is real. Conceptually, you are here and the mountain is over there. But, experientially, you are the mountain, the mountain is you.
You are the universe.
You are the cosmos.
There is no separation between the body and the world. They are the same essence, the same substance.
And so in the absolute sense, there is no gain or loss. Only in imagination can you have a discourse about gain and loss.
But in the directness of your experience it is one reality.
It has no name, and it goes by all names.
Has no form, and it goes by all forms.
So the path of understanding is the path from the sense of separation to complete intimacy.
The end of worries and concerns.
Because there is nothing apart from yourself, your true self, your only self.
So relax your hold. Relax your grasp. Relax your attachments.
Let go. Be completely not-knowing.
Allow, invite not-knowingness to permeate your entire being, every cell, every aspect of your being to be permeated with this complete intimacy. It already is. It’s a done deal.
Awakened; you, wakeful one.
So, if you have any questions, anything that you would like to explore, you know the drill, you’re welcome to raise your hand and unmute yourself. And, there is an icon at the bottom of the screen called React; click on it. You can also raise your hand there as well. So any questions?
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