How real is our experience?

Meditation – How real is our experience?

01/12/2025

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Hello, everyone. Lovely to see you. To be together in this loving space, this welcoming.

One could say sort of a surrender, but there is no one surrendering to anything or to anybody.

So invite yourself to rest, relaxing, inviting the body to relax, to settle in presence.

Suspending the mind activity just for now.

No need to figure anything out or to think about anything or to recollect anything.

Allow the universe to knock on your door as it wishes.

And the door is always open because we’re not interested in a door; there is no door.

All is love. We are this love.

Such a wonderful thing to comprehend, such a beautiful thing to be revealed to us.

The end of personal worries and concerns and to be the ocean, to be this freedom without struggle.

Why not?

Yeah. Why not?

The love, the beauty, the friendship, the kindness.

Kindness towards everything. Kindness towards everyone, including oneself.

An embrace, an embrace that doesn’t leave anything unembraced.

Yes.

We are this effortless awareness. No effort is required to perceive this perception.

Noticing the breath.

No effort is needed to be aware that we are aware.

It’s right there. I’m aware.

And I am this effortless awareness. So simple, so clear.

What is complicated is to be somebody, to maintain my story, to maintain the effort required to be somebody with all these worries and concerns and fears.

How wonderful it is to be, just to be, not to be somebody; because in pure being, you are not any particular entity. You are nobody in a way, and yet you are everybody and everything because there is no distance.

There is no distance between awareness and that which is awared.

But there is no distance between the ocean and the wave, between water and the wave. No distance.

This zero distance is the reality of your experience.

Meaning, no duality.

It sounds so complicated. No duality.

The mind is wondering what is the no duality?

Forget about it. Just this effortless beingness. But the mind is so tranquil and at ease.

Thoughts appear. They appear out of the universe, out of the absolute, out of consciousness, at zero distance from consciousness, like the waves appear on the surface of the ocean.

The ocean is unconcerned, untroubled. There’s no effort involved.

So we can, if needed, be open to one reality.

One reality meaning, right now in this moment, what is it?

What is it that is absolutely undeniable in your experience?

Is it the stream of thoughts that are flowing through images on the screen?

A thought followed by another and another.

Is that the reality of your experience?

Is it the various sensations that arise within your body mind?

All sorts of sensations. Is this the reality of your experience?

Take a look.

This silent, transparent, formless awareness.

Check it out. Check out your experience.

Turn your attention to the source. It is the Source inviting Itself to turn its attention to Itself.

There are no words that can express the inexpressible, that which is not of the mind.

Everything we know: thoughts, perceptions, sensations, memories, images… We know them through the reality of awareness.

You are this knowingness. You are not an object, which is ‘known’.

You are not an appearance on the screen of consciousness.

Images appear on the screen of consciousness.

You are the knowing aspect.

You don’t need to believe yourself or define yourself in any way.

What for?

Can you define a melody? Can you define the perfume of a rose?

Can you define love?

Can you define beauty, joy, the sound of a brook, the songs of the birds.

But you can enjoy. Awareness is joy.

One could say the greatest miracle, speaking in relative terms.

It is as this formless awareness that we know ourself and we know each other.

We know our oneness. We know our eternity, the eternity of being, not being somebody.

The best somebody to be is to be love.

I am mister and misses love. Yes. But really, not personal love.

What is it that is changeless in your experience?

To travel from the East Coast of the United States to the West Coast, you drive or you fly west. You don’t go north or south.

You need to inhale, you inhale in. You don’t inhale out.

There is a changeless aspect in your experience, that which you can always count on. And that is not the storyline about your life, about your tribe, your storyline about your spiritual journey.

Because storyline and narrative belong to the past.

Their reality is this invisible presence.

So allow yourself, invite yourself to this understanding.

Invite yourself to live as this formless awareness. Trust it.

In religious terms, they say, as you love God, God loves you.

As you distance yourself from God, God awaits your invitation. It’s always there, available, but we don’t need to play the game of time.

Right now in this moment. What is it that is, and cannot not be?

What is it that is beyond any doubt?

What is it that is eternal?

And, the waves on of on the surface of the ocean, it’s okay. No problem.

The human aspect, it is not a problem, no struggle.

Don’t make a problem out of it. It’s okay. Whatever is unfolding in the body, in the mind, in the emotive state, it’s okay.

It’s part of the music.

There are just different notes in the symphony. You are the symphony. You are the melody. You are the composer and the enjoyer.

So we say yes to the entire celebration, to the entire journey, which is a journey from love to love.

One could say, journey from the personal self to the universal self.

Keeping in mind that there has never been, in fact, a personal self anywhere at any time.

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So, if you have any questions, anything that you would like to explore, make sure to unmute yourself. And, also, at the bottom of the screen, there is a react icon, which you can also click on, to raise your hand or you can just raise your hand.

Any questions?