Meditation – Ignorance is a choice we make
10/17/2024
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Welcome, everyone Lovely to be with you and to have nothing to do.
Because in essence nothing is happening.
When the mind is at rest tranquil, peaceful not arguing.
The universe is unfolding as it unfolds images on the screen.
You perceive a variety of thoughts memories various bodily sensations.
But you are this still aware presence.
That which we seemingly seek so far is our true Being.
Our true nature is what we already are what already is.
This understanding pacifies the mind pacifies the body freeing it from generations of contractions and retained attitudes in the body.
So we invite ourselves Body and mind are invited to the freedom.
We don’t need to wait We can in this very moment, let it all go.
Why not? Why hold on to anything? What for?
What’s this meaningless holding on which maintains the illusion? this sense of danger that there is something we need something we must attain or we must become or we must have in order to be free in order to be happy.
Happiness when?
To be happy when? To be free when?
Maybe we don’t need to continue this habitual tendency to seek and resist to look outwardly to look somewhere for something.
For whom? To free ourselves from past issues and fix the past and secure the future. How troublesome! An impossible, momentous task.
While all along this effortless presence is available this ordinary shining awareness which does not exist in time which is not subject to events.
It’s your true self but somehow habitually we refer to ourselves as somebody with problems someone with issues with a sense of failure or inadequacy.
We drag on the past every step we take we are carrying pulling the cadavers of the past.
So much effort exhausting!
Is it possible to for a moment simply be this open listening space? This effortless being? Effortless perceiving effortless knowing effortless awaring? Without anybody at the helm without a personal doer.
There is freedom in not being somebody.
Because in not being somebody you are That which we all are which everything is this freedom.
It is said that in being nobody you’re everybody.
In being no one you’re everyone.
In being nothing you’re everything.
These are not empty words.
But somehow we’re enamored with being somebody in particular.
Our stories our narratives our past are seducing.
We identify with some imaginary character which we sometimes love and sometimes hate.
We don’t realize that in this identification we already have doomed ourselves.
We’ve limited and contracted ourselves to suffer to experience the sense of limitation the sense of lack worries and concerns fear of death hopes for the future.
Habitually, we build this shell this cocoon around us separating ourselves from the totality separating ourselves from the light of being from joy from freedom from causeless peace and happiness.
And we engage in struggling. How to break through this cocoon which we are weaving? Weaving it and at the same time struggling against it.
These two go hand in hand. We hold on to the me-entity to the me-narrative and at the same time we seek freedom from it. Do you see this?
And so we we want freedom and happiness for me for the me-cocoon that we are weaving.
So we’re encapsulated in this impression that we exist in time while we seek eternity.
We seek eternity as a character in time that is bound to fail You are not an entity in time.
This is a contradiction you cannot have it both.
So why wait? Why wait?
Can we die right now? Just die to all those notions narratives beliefs structures ideologies ideas we have about me beliefs we hold on to we identify with we defend.
Sometimes it may seem to be scary but again scary for whom?
We hold on to a structure to a personal self meaning to fear. Because it’s not possible to believe in a personal self without the experience of fear worry, and concern. It’s not possible.
Whenever you experience fear and I’m not talking about a bear chasing you.
Whenever you experience fear you’re holding on to the me-belief. You are maintaining the me the sense of personal limitation the belief that I am a limited consciousness.
But what is it when we’re not holding on to any notion or any belief about consciousness?
This freedom this open effortless being not-knowing this effortless awareness.
Sometimes we are waiting for a savior. Maybe the guru will say something. Maybe God will appear and save me, help me.
We wait. We maintain the me-waiting living the personal burden of time hoping for something in the future.
Somebody will come to save me. There’ll be somehow a saving grace but the saving grace is already here. You are that.
You are this invisible transparent aware presence. That is God’s message already delivered.
Not to be delivered later. Delivered! And then you say, yes. Yes. But, but… But what?
Are you something some object that you perceive? Are you a set of feelings and sensations that you strongly identify with? Or are you that which is holding on to stuff holding on to the imaginary past?
You already are that freedom playing the game of limitation.
You are already saved waiting for a savior. This is a way of speaking because there is no nobody to save and no savior. It’s all done.
It’s a done deal. All is well in God’s kingdom and there is no other kingdom. The human kingdom is your imagination God’s imagination.
There is no personal imagination. Everything which appears to you appears to you from beyond not from a personal doer or subject.
And yet, here we are enjoying this gathering enjoying the peace enjoying being enjoying whatever is appearing on the screen.
Who and what is the enjoyer? It is that enjoyer which enjoys the game of ignorance.
Oh, yeah. The game of what happened to me?
What happened to me in the past? Why they did this to me? Poor me.
How can I be free from blah blah blah, dot dot dot?
Sound bites sound bites sound bites.
Spinning spinning spinning.
We love it. Come on. Fess it up. Fess up.
You love it. Your story your narrative the gossip about the neighbors about your friends self aggrandizement identification with the tribe the stale family narratives playing the game of being angry being upset.
Playing the game of being a victim or being the judge the one that knows it all.
All these different personas these different facets which we love to play out.
The complaining. Oh, yeah. The complaining. I’ve been at it for so long and I still haven’t reached it.
Games.
You are not the images which appear on the screen.
You are the screen and you are the artist the artist that is creating all these images composing images.
You are that.
Recognize yourself as the screen the invisible formless aware presence.
So many words to point to that which is beyond language beyond mind beyond words. That which is and has never not been and cannot, not be.
Don’t play the dangerous game of being somebody until you grow up. Grow up now. And then you may not be interested in playing that game the personal me-game.
We start and end right now, right here in this moment. It’s always this moment. This moment of discernment where we can discern between the personal me game, and none of it.
It is the peace that you seek. It’s not the me game.
This full stop this total inner stillness in the core of Being. The eye of the storm.
But there is no storm.
