Meditation – Does awareness progress after a glimpse?
02/06/2025
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Hello everyone.
So let’s welcome ourself. As, no one and, everyone.
Resting as we are, resting as our true essential nature, which is formless, boundaryless, this ordinary awareness.
Effortless. Undeniable.
So just for the duration of this meeting and beyond, allow things to be as they are: passing, floating images, thoughts, bodily sensations.
On their own and off their own, they’re empty.
Meaning, without awareness, without presence, without being.
They have no reality of their own. So we can relax and let go of all the knowledge, all the past accumulations that we have stored.
To be completely not-knowing in this moment, undefined.
And yet there is a deep knowingness that there is love and that we are love, which cannot completely be grasped or defined by the mind.
So allow this relaxation, this effortless not-doing, non-doing to reveal itself to you right now.
And to reveal to you that there is nothing at stake.
That all is well as it is. That all is love.
Beyond the divisions of the mind, beyond the realm of duality, beyond the realm of opposition, of good and bad.
There is a deep freedom, which is your freedom.
Not your freedom as somebody who can do whatever they want, but the freedom of your true self, of your true nature, the freedom that you are, which is one freedom.
Not a freedom of separate entities.
So allow yourself to sink deeper and deeper in not-knowing.
To be embraced, to be absorbed, to be dissolved in God’s light, in the absolute, the formless reality, which we all are, which everything is.
This entire so called human experience is not about the human experience, but about the understanding about Truth, about Reality.
That consciousness is real.
That you are not defined by what you imagine yourself to be. You are not defined by the senses. You are not defined by the world. You are not defined by the body. You are not defined by the mind.
What is this I? What is in this moment, is it not this formless awareness?
Take a look.
Are you in the images on the screen? Or are you this effortless awareness?
Check it out.
Sometimes a question arises: Does awareness progress after a glimpse?
So many ways to approach this question: Experientially, what is awareness this moment? What is its shape, its form? What are its characteristics?
I am aware. Am I separate from awareness?
Or is I another word we use for awareness? Is there somebody standing apart from awareness in this moment in your experience?
Thoughts may appear.
Like the wind appearing, a gust of wind. But the gust of wind doesn’t define the wide open space.
Does awareness have any form, any shape, any color, any gender?
Can that which is formless, non-phenomenal, improve?
Improvement requires time. How it was years ago and how it will be in the future.
But does awareness appear in time? Or does time, memory, appear in awareness?
Put furniture in a room, a wide open space, you can arrange the furniture, improve the design, but nothing happens to the space. You cannot improve the space within which the furniture is.
And yet there can be a deepening, a deepening of our understanding.
New understandings. New insights.
There are no insights that improve awareness, but they reduce or diminish the arising of ignorance and unhappiness.
New insights, deepening understanding, can help dissipate the sense of lack, the belief that there is something at stake.
The belief that there is no loss and gain, can help, reduce the arising of fear and worry, which is a wonderful thing.
And yet, we all know that on the relative level, sometimes a torrent of rain is very helpful for the Earth to sprout and plants to grow.
We all know that at the relative level, every breath we take is, we say combustion, oxygen; some sort of combustion within the body that is essential for the survival of the body.
There are no mistakes in God’s kingdom. Even the belief that I’m a separate entity, that I’m a man or a woman, a father, a mother, a son or a daughter. Even that has its place in the grand scheme of things.
Robert Adams says: “All is well and unfolding as it should.”
All activities, thoughts, sensations, perceptions, arise out of non-activity, out of the stillness.
Their essence, their reality is non-movement. Your reality. One reality.
Where would this one reality move from, and where would it move to?
Our true home, our essence.
