Meditation – Effortless awareness, the path to happiness
04/13/2023
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So to start with you can just simply sit comfortably you don’t need to close your eyes but you could either close your eyes or turn your gaze inward and welcome your experience just as it is
and relax into presence whichever way that appears to you
there’s no prescribed way you need to be nothing that you need to do nothing that you need to figure out accomplish your resolve simply for the duration of this meeting as best you can do nothing
notice whatever appears to you sensations within your body thoughts appearing
allow them to be just as they are without any effort we don’t need to correct your experience or improve your experience or adjust your experience you can just let it be as it is
you are this effortless aware presence thoughts appear to you the sound of these words hearing appears to you
your gentle movement of the breath appears to you
there is no personal doer and thank goodness for that
everything that is unfolding is unfolding out of the universal doing
like the weather
like the sunshine
like the heartbeat
4:58 it is all unfolding effortlessly
a universal manifestation creation creativity
and we are not apart from that we are this creativity this creation
and we are the awareness that knows that it perceives I know I perceive
in this awareness it knows that it is I know I am it’s inherent to our reality
that we are aware and that we are
we all share that we all know that I am I am aware
it’s effortless it’s peaceful it’s free
unbound
simple not complicated
the complication arises when we imagine ourselves to be somebody
when we identify ourselves as a person as somebody existing in time and space
that somebody will have to become better at this or that
somebody that needs some safeguard protect argue their position
that is how the mind becomes complicated
incumber them thoughts wrapped up in the past
defining ourselves via thought via feeling
whichever way we define ourselves we are superimposing upon this open effortless presence 9:55 we are superimposing a straight jacket
how we were and how we are and how we will be how we should be how we should not be
images on the screen
and all along and in this very moment you are this effortless awareness
the words don’t matter your reality is transparent effortless being
that is not in time in this moment is not in time presence beingness is not in time
you imagine yourself in time but time is an appearance that appears to you
appears to you as thoughts appears to you as sensation
you imagine yourself to appear inside time in some time
but in this moment all you can be certain of is I am and I am aware
I am aware that I am aware and that I’m aware that I am that you can be certain
this amness this beingness this awareness this presence does not come and go
thoughts appear and disappear sensations appear and disappear
the sun rises and the sun sets but awareness I does not appear or disappear
we need to be clear about that check it out to be certain these words refer to your understanding to your experience
and not some words you are hearing but do not relate to your experience
your experience is not in time you do not experience the past nor do you experience the future
you cannot experience an hour ago nor can you experience an hour from now
your experience is always this eternal meaning not in time aware presence 15:05
you are not a woman or a man you’re not a person your body may be male female body
tall body short body whatever like your car could be a ford, a honda or a toyota whatever
your house could be one bedroom three bedroom house whatever
but you are not the car you’re not the body you’re not the house you are the knowingness the awareness the beingness
that which is cannot not be take a look and be clear about what you’re hearing it actually is your experience that you are this transparent awareness this presence
this awareness is the reality which right now perceives hears these words it is not a female or male awareness
awareness is not inside a room or outside the room it’s not in the kitchen or in the living room or in the garden
has no location and it’s your very reality yourself your true nature is that you are that
so if you can be not knowing what you are it’s simply allowing being to be
that is sufficient allow being to be
without trying to mold or strain being
the peace that you seek is your very being.
