Meditation – Is consciousness a concept?
02/09/2025
Listen to the Audio
Watch the Video
Transcript of the Meditation
Hello, everyone.
So welcome.
So we welcome, this fresh moment without history.
Openly; because this openness is freedom.
The freedom of being. The freedom of not-knowing.
Not-knowing is very rich because it’s a complete availability, untainted. There is an innocence in not-knowing; a receptivity.
So can we meet whatever appears on the screen without the past?
Without knowing what we are, what it is that is on the screen.
To be this silent witness, without any preference, without guiding the show.
Noticing, maybe the tendency to seek something.
Habitual tendency to get somewhere to reach some imaginary goal.
The light of awareness is always on.
Images and thoughts appear.
They are ungraspable. When we reach for a thought, it’s nothing to reach for.
And there is no need to reach for anything, to grasp onto anything. What for? It’s all imaginary.
Sometimes we feel that we must get something or get somewhere to be safe, to be fulfilled.
To be safe and fulfilled as what?
What is it that’s seeking fulfillment or safety?
Because whatever you reach can only be as real as that which is reaching.
But if that which is seeking, that which is experiencing the sense of lack is a figment of your imagination, then whatever that figment of your imagination reaches is also imaginary.
Imaginary goodies for an imaginary goodies lover.
Yet there is a fulfillment in understanding. The understanding about totality, about your totality, about wholeness, about reality.
This understanding about one reality is fulfilling in the sense that it removes the belief in a separate imaginary character.
It does not deliver any special new experience, removes the illusion.
The illusion that I am mortal form, mortal entity; born destined to die, subject to conditions.
But when you turn your attention towards the source, when consciousness turns its attention to the source of attention.
We discover that we’ve never left home.
And that home is beyond the mind, beyond conception and beyond perception.
And that understanding is not a new belief. It is the dropping of belief, the dissolution, the melting of beliefs about reality.
And what is this reality in this moment?
Is it out there somewhere? A certain distance from you? How far apart are you from reality, from being?
How far are you from this effortless, formless awareness? Which you do not need to conceptualize.
Whenever you conceptualize consciousness, this concept is perceived. And that which is perceived in a glimpse is no longer there.
But the perceiving aspect, is formless awareness.
Wherever you turn, there it is.
You cannot move away from yourself and step out of yourself. It’s not possible.
You are that, and that is not a concept which you perceive or a concept which you conceive. In this moment, take a look.
Consciousness being conscious of itself. I am conscious. I am aware. And I’m conscious that I’m conscious. I am aware that I’m aware. It’s right there.
Clear, obvious.
There is no personal self anywhere that is aware or conscious. That is simply a belief that we hold on to. Because, experientially, it is always this formless awareness, which is aware.
There is no need to superimpose a body-mind onto the formless. There’s no need to superimpose a form, a story, a narrative upon that, which is so obviously formless and real.
So if right now you drop all your beliefs and your stories and your narratives, all your past knowledge, all of it, do you disappear?
If you wipe the mirror clean from all the images, does the mirror disappear?
If you melt your gold bracelet, your gold ring, your gold necklace, does the gold disappear?
When the wind quiets down and the riplets on the surface of the pond dissolve in the pond, return to the pond, does the pond disappear?
Why do we hold on to the personal narrative when the freedom, the joy, the peace, the bliss of consciousness is our true self.
It’s a good question.
How many times we want to go around the block? Every time with a different narrative.
So if you have any questions, make sure to unmute yourself. Any questions?
