Meditation – Effortless Awareness
03/06/2025
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Welcome, everyone. Very lovely to be together. It’s a beautiful beautiful day.
So if you can either close your eyes or turn your gaze inward and welcome your experience as it is.
Invite yourself to simply be. You don’t need to do anything or try to figure anything out. Let things be as they are.
There’s no personal mission. Just an opportunity to sink into presence as a way of speaking.
Notice whatever sensations appear to you.
There are no words to describe. No need for any description. No need for mentation.
If a certain commentary arises, it’s okay. You don’t need to engage in it or struggle with it. Just let it be as it is.
In a way, you’re inviting yourself to the openness, holding on to nothing.
There’s no effort in being, in presence, in awareness because there is no separate entity doing anything.
Images may appear to you.
You remain undefined.
There is a certain sweetness to noticing, a certain sweetness to awareness.
Because it is relaxed, it is free, it is effortless.
Every moment is complete freshness, brand new.
No past, no future.
Awareness shines effortlessly.
Your entire experience is soaked in awareness.
The gentle breath in and out of the body, the heartbeat.
The distant sound of traffic, which is not so distant.
There is no separate entity anywhere outside of our belief in one or our imagination, but in this moment, which is timeless, there is no separation.
Because there is no time, no distance.
Time and distance appear to you. They appear to you as thoughts, perceptions.
But these thoughts and perceptions are completely intimate with you, you meaning awareness.
The intimacy, the intimacy of oneness, of wholeness, the intimacy of love, the intimacy of being.
So whenever you detect an effort, ask yourself on whose behalf is this effort being exerted.
You find yourself going into mind, into thinking, into sensations and feelings, which are simply images on the screen, ripples in the surface of the pond. The ripples do not define the pond. The images on the screen do not define the screen.
Contemplate that right now in this moment, the reality which perceives, which hears these words, is invisible to the senses.
We could say it’s transparent, or formless, and yet undeniable.
Awareness, consciousness is its own proof.
The perfume of awareness is peace, causeless peace, freedom, happiness.
As the mind is soaked or illuminated by this peace. There’s clarity.
A flow. A gentle flow.
Undisturbed flow.
Because being is not disturbed by its creation, it’s creativity.
Because there is nothing outside of being. Being is and cannot not be.
Non being is an oxymoron.
Being is and nonbeing is not and has never been.
So we invite ourself, not just during this meeting, but throughout our life, to act from nonactivity, to speak from the silence.
We explore effortlessness. Love. Harmonious living.
Complete availability to whatever seems to appear.
There may be a tendency to resist, to seek, to argue.
But like when the sun shines on the ice, it melts it. Similarly, when love and understanding and love of truth shines in your life and guides you.
These tendencies weaken and lose their interest.
So we say yes to love, to freedom, to beauty, to peace.
To whatever appears, whatever is appearing on the screen without needing to comprehend it.
Because there is no thought in love. There is just love.
Ramana Maharshi used to speak about the the mind dropping into the heart.
It’s so beautiful.
So if you have any questions, anything that you would like to explore, please make sure to unmute yourself, and you can raise your hand.
And you can turn on your videos as I love to see you when you care to do so.
So any questions?
