Meditation – Freedom from identification with form
05/01/2025
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Hello, everyone.
So… welcome.
So if we can turn our attention without knowing any direction, a sort of resting, noticing that which is unmoving right now in our experience.
Because there is that within which everything appears, but which does not appear.
So you can turn your attention inward as a way of speaking.
And allow things to be as they are.
Meaning, there is nothing that you need to do as a person.
Notice that there is no effort required to be aware.
Awareness is effortless.
And this effortlessness is peace.
The ocean of being.
Our true nature, our essence is this bliss.
When the body and the mind perceptions are movements of that, of the non movement. Which is how bliss dances.
We are habituated to play the game of resistance and seeking.
And at some point our interest in resistance and seeking diminishes.
It ceases to attract us. We become more and more interested in resting as being in the midst of activity.
To be undisturbed. So right now, as you sit here, explore being undisturbed.
You can turn your attention towards the sensations within your body.
An explorer being very loving, embracing, kind without being interested in any particular goal or direction.
The sensation appears within your body. The thought appears within your mind. They are appearing in awareness.
Like a flock of bird that’s flying by or clouds in the sky.
There is no interest in changing anything.
There is a trust in the openness. A trust in not knowing, a trust in being.
To meet our experience in complete freshness, meaning not in time.
Without stories, without the past, without narratives.
Just sinking deeper and deeper in presence.
Meaning less and less doing.
The mind may invite you to do something, get somewhere, figure something out.
But these are endless pursuits, which only serve to maintain the activity of mind.
Seeking something, trying to grasp something, meaning it’s assuming incompleteness, assuming lack.
And you’ll be without any assumptions about yourself.
You’re not a woman. You’re not a man. You’re not a person. You’re not a son. You’re not a daughter.
No assumptions whatsoever. No identification.
Because the body… the body may be a male, female body, a father or mother, son or daughter.
But you, what is this you? What is I in your experience without thought, without memory, in this moment, which has no duration, no time.
Time appears to you. Yesterday’s breakfast or last week’s trip appears to YOU, what is this you right now?
Certain thoughts may appear about this problem I have and what my father or mother did to me, how deeply they wounded me.
I need to heal from these wounds.
All that appears to you. It appears with awareness, like ripples appear on the surface of the pond, but they’re not separate. They’re just a movement within the pond and not separate from the pond.
You are that vastness. You are the pond, the ocean of being, effortlessly so.
Imagining yourself to be a woman or a man, a person with a history and trauma.
But it’s okay to explore your trauma and work on releasing, clearing the past…
But not to believe that you are somebody, that you are an entity which exists in time and space. You don’t exist in time and space. Time and space appear to you.
Space appears to you as perception. The oak tree in the yard over there.
Distance, but it’s not over there. Over there is right here. Awakened.
There is no separation anywhere in the cosmos.
Separation is a belief, habitual, and it inhabits itself in our sensory field. We sense, we feel that I am here, and you are over there.
What is your experience of over there, of me being over there or the mountain being over there? What is your experience of over there if not right here, right now.
The sense of separation doesn’t only appear in thoughts: I am this. I am that. Why did he do this to me? Why did this happen to me?
It’s also in the body. So you can invite yourself right now.
Sorry. I don’t understand.
You can invite yourself right now to turn your attention to the body and notice whatever is appearing.
If possible, do not name it.
Do not label whatever you perceive within the sensory field.
And gently approach it lovingly.
Release your hold. Be like a child, innocent, facing a new experience, a new appearance, a new manifestation without grasping, without any personal intention.
Just an interest, a gentle, loving interest, sort of a ‘hello’.
There is complete freedom in not grasping and not knowing and not laboring.
To be still and open. Sensing, perceiving, being, not knowing, loving.
It is compassion, Love.
Unconditional love, the yesness.
You can invite your body to this celebration of consciousness, creativity.
It’s a sense of play and the freedom.
So beautiful to perceive a sensation without knowing it, there is beauty, the sensation of your feet on the ground without words, the heartbeat, the breath, sensation of your neck.
Your belly.
And when we meet each other, it’s so beautiful because there are sensations that arise within the body in relationship.
To also notice that inner field, the inner realm.
To notice how sometimes we want something.
The body sort of becomes alert, like as if it is hunting.
To notice that the way the body is and how it expresses, appears.
It’s all appearing within awareness.
The interest is completely open. It’s not directed towards a personal goal.
That is the party pooper, the spoiler.
How can I get there? How can I get this? Or how can I get rid of this?
To be available for the entire field of manifestation.
Freshly, without knowing without the narrative.
It’s God’s play.
There is no other play. There is no other player.
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.
There’s also a react button in the bottom of the screen where you can also raise your hand.
Any questions?
And you’re welcome to turn on your videos. I always enjoy seeing you if you care to. Any questions?
