Meditation – Form is not a problem
06/11/2022
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hello everyone lovely to see you all hello trish nathan holger george patrick holly malcolm frank and john
hello lovely to be with you
so in order to gather here together as this one presence we don’t need to carry the past we don’t need to know anything about that which we are so we meet in this complete not knowing this complete openness
now which is not in time
so in the now in presence and as presence there is no separation
we are always meeting in the now we are always meeting in presence
before you download this story about yourself or a story about your experience
all is well and complete as it is
being it is being is
non-being is not
your entire experience is a validation of being
it is not about your life
about the world about your culture about your body your experience is an ongoing validation of being
not being somebody not being good or bad but the pure being pure awareness
before you say i am this or i am that you say and you know i am
i am is the peace i am is the freedom i am is the totality i am is the sufficiency
as soon as you add i am somebody
you have entered into the sense of lack and the sense of limitation
you experience yourself as somebody as a limited self and you experience the world around you and others as separate from yourself none of which is true
but because you give importance to your feelings
you make the imaginary you make the illusory appear as true
and so you suffer the illusion of separation in your feelings in your body in your belly
then you spend the rest of your life struggling with the feelings
without any success
you imagine that the freedom of being depends on the world
depends on your relationships with your family with your friends with your co-workers with your neighbors
you imagine that freedom is conditional
then because you do not have the courage to drop this illusion
you live a subject to the world subject to the body subject to the mind
so can you become utterly silent and still
not moving away from something or towards something
can you be silent and still
so that you are not a subject
to the stream of thought and the stream of feelings and emotions
thoughts and feelings appear to you
the appearance disappears instantaneously what power do they have over you
what power does a cloud have over the wide open sky
why make yourself subject
to thoughts and emotions bodily sensations
13:06 what if you do not define yourself or view yourself in any way whatsoever
not as a man woman mother son not to view yourself in any way whatsoever in this moment this moment which is not in time
how about letting the bygone be bygone
so that every moment is a fresh moment of being of presence of awareness not an ongoing me-story
why are we not content with i am and we’d rather be content with i am this or i am that
because as soon as i am this or i am that i have to defend
protect maintain
this and that
but i am doesn’t need to defend and protect and maintain anything
there is no issue with phenomena thoughts and perceptions and events in the world
like there are no issues with clouds appearing in the sky
but believing yourself to be a mortal entity believing yourself to be somebody who’s subject to the conditions that is the misery
this illusory me that we’re so busy protecting and maintaining and safeguarding cajoling
an ending an unending whiny whining illusory me
whining about this and whining about that
but the moment you are not defining yourself in any way here you are as this aware presence effortless presence
filling the entire realm with presence
nothing lacking nothing too much
so we remain as we are in this moment not knowing being not knowing
beingness is sufficient unto itself it does not need to know anything as if it is lacking any knowledge
everything you’re protecting is illusion
that which you are the reality of consciousness needs no protection
so you must decide which game do you want to play
