Meditation – I am the tree, the wind and the bird
08/11/2022
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okay welcome
lovely to be with you all holger rochell frank hi chris karen george and holly
so welcome the totality of your experience
meaning no need to make any distinctions right now
sensation may appear to you the bodily sensation
a thought
an image
they appear effortlessly there is no personal will
and they appear in the same space
borderless awareness
nothing that you need to do
awareness is seamless
meaning
that it is not divided
in part of that which appears
5:05 is me and part of that which appears is not me
everything that appears to you appears equally
it appears equally as awareness
it’s the same awareness which perceives a sensation of your feet on the ground and perceives the sound of traffic
the same the same space the same presence
which perceives hearing these words
and perceives a sensation of hunger or perceives the oak tree in the yard
given everything that you perceive all perceptions all sensations and all thoughts appear equally in the same space
it is a personal choice to say that the perceptions of the body is me and the perception of the oak tree is not me
because the oak tree is an equal appearance
to the appearance
of your body
when you look at your hand when you look at the oak tree they’re both equal perceptions
when you look at the sensation of your back against the couch
the memory of your grandparents
both the sensation of your back against the couch and the memory of your parents are equal appearances
they appear in the same aware space
9:06 and yet we say i am the body but i am not the image of my grandparents
i am not the image of new york city that appears to me
when you take a closer look you will find that there are in fact no actual divisions or separations and that the divisions and separations are purely conceptual
we choose separation
and having chosen it we experience it and feel it and live it
we separate ourself as a person a man a woman
the senses of the body are already programmed to distinguish
between a river and mountain
between a lion and a cat
between the fruit that’s edible and that which is not edible
the body is already programmed to navigate in the world
we learn not to put our hand in the fire
not to jump in the pool if we don’t know how to swim
with these distinctions at the body-mind level
do not refer to awareness i awareness i consciousness
perceive perceptions sensations thoughts
in the same space of awareness equally
you do not need to define yourself as a certain set of perceptions or a certain set of sensations
in order to function in the world it is actually an impediment to harmonious functioning
this conceptual separation between me and not me
is felt at the body level as a
15:03 sense of limitation isolation powerlessness vulnerability
not the vulnerability of the body in front of a lion but the the vulnerability of i of the self of consciousness which is
not vulnerable
so i am presence awareness
i am the wind i am the sunshine
i am the sound of traffic i am the butterfly
i am the hum of the airplane
i am the breath
i am the cosmos
i am borderless awareness
i am i am though i am it i am that and i am i
i am not a thing
things appear out of i to i within i as i thus not being a thing everything is i
am the creator and the perceiver not a created object not a form not a limited body mind
i am not this nor that and yet this and that are my very self
nothing is outside of myself myself is not within anything
the body appears to me the mountains appear to me
the wind appears to me the sound of this voice appears to me
i do not appear but without i nothing appears thus appearance is i relies on i depends on i is inherent to i does not have a reality of its own outside of i
i refers to being being is aware aware that it is
aware of its creation creative potential
20:16 there is only one being one reality unopposed by some other reality
complete freedom
nothing lacking to the reality of being
nothing that is being sought after
