Meditation – Feeling overcome by life
05/31/2022
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So we’re just gonna do a brief meditation a guided meditation and then you’re welcome to share whatever questions you may have
is the sound good is it yes okay thank you Holger
so if you can just sit comfortably and turn your attention inward
if you want close your eyes and come to close your eyes or just simply rest as you as you are
and welcome welcome the stillness welcome welcome presence
welcome the peace
which is always available to us
so that the mind meaning thoughts and perceptions can rest
you don’t need to fix anything there’s no goal no objective simply a fresh moment of presence
every moment every breath is a brand new moment a brand new breath never experienced before
there is in fact no real before no real after
invite the peace to extend throughout your entire experience
in presence in being there is no time
there are no problems no issues
everything is surrendered in presence no need to hold on to anything
so that you are transparent
complete availability
to the universal expression
everything that appears to you is an expression of universal consciousness the cosmic reality
you are this transparent presence
being awareness is sufficient unto itself it does not need to be limited by the mind it is not possible for anything any thought any experience to limit consciousness to limit your reality
08:15 it is of no use to look in the limitation of the mind for any information about yourself
consciousness is informed by its very being by its own fact by its own reality
you can invite the mind to complete relaxation
then you are childlike
pristine
uncluttered uncluttered by the belief that you can be cluttered
to be not knowing is this complete disposability this complete availability it is the peace
in life you will meet many challenges to the me as soon as you adopt a persona
as soon as you identify as a man as a person you will immediately experience the sense of separation and the world will appeal to you as challenging
difficult
the mind becomes embroiled in various strategies to protect to defend an imaginary you
but in this moment the reality of i whatever it is that hears these words the reality of i is blatant
by this aware presence AM I AM
not something or somebody
that pure amness
and life is this pure amness in movement dancing
unopposed
14:55 so in meeting challenges in life
the key question is what is it that is
i am assuming myself to be
what am i assuming myself to be
what am i assuming the other to be
or what is the other
what is the reality of the other
is there a separate other in fact
somebody to blame
somebody to project our emotions onto
what is the evidence that separation is real
and to notice how this resistance this sense of separation appears in the body
the body a wide open field of exploration
is it possible to be still
to notice to observe in a dispassionate way
not knowing
and no need to know
the depth of presence
the fullness the abundance of presence
a new life unfolds in this presence and does not veil presence
so rather than being preoccupied with the content of mind
rather than being preoccupied with the content of emotions and events in the world
can we become familiar with pure presence
not avoiding anything but inviting the recognition of presence awareness
awareness recognizing itself
resting as this recognition
because the recognition of awareness is the recognition of freedom
the recognition of love the recognition of beauty the recognition of peace
as this recognition becomes our familiar home
we become less and less disturbed by the world less and less disturbed by the mind
so that the world and the mind become a sort of coloring the coloring of presence but not a veiling
