Meditation – Is there a prior to consciousness
08/26/2022
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okay so welcome everyone lovely to see you to be with you
okay
so it’s it’s always always now
the nowness of now is
presence being
the the nowness of now is not the current thought or the current perception
the nowness of now is invisible to the eye invisible to the senses
that which is and cannot not be
the reality of your experience is this invisible nowness beingness
awareness
which is not in time
and therefore there is no prior to nowness
and there is no subsequent
to nowness
5:02 being
which is also isness
is a infinite borderless
not a movement in time not a movement on the screen
when you refer to that which you perceive
you are also referring to the reality of the perception
the reality of the perception is hidden
in that it does not appear
separate from its perception
so being meaning i is hidden from the senses
hidden from the mind
hidden from thought
and yet the mind is its reflection
sensations feelings
they are the imprint the expression of the absolute
like the reflection of the sunlight on the surface of the pond
the glittering waves
they are an expression of the sun light
the sun is hidden
in the reflection and yet the reflection is not possible without the sunlight
in fact the reflection of the sunlight is made out of the sunlight
10:22 consciousness being the reality
that which is and cannot not be is aware
there are not two
there is no reality beyond reality beyond the reality of consciousness
whatever reality that one can imagine which is beyond the reality of consciousness is consciousness itself
and you meaning i is this consciousness
one could say that prior to the reflection of the sunlight on the surface of the pond there is the sun as a way of speaking
in fact there is no such thing as prior but as a way of speaking one could say that the source is the sunlight and the manifestation is the reflection on the surface of the pond
so one could say that perceptions sensations mentations
they are the reflections on the surface of the pond the reflections of consciousness of the sun
but the sun is not separate from its reflections the reflections are not separate from the sun
similarly the world-body-mind perceptions
are not separate from
consciousness I consciousness
and in this non-dual reality
there is no reality other than that the reality of
15:00 time
does not exist outside of the concept
the concept and the sense sensory aspect
which we refer to as the feeling the feeling of of time
in the non-dual understanding is one it’s one realm it has no actual layers
conceptually yes as many layers as many realms as we care to conceptualize
but experientially
there are no layers to reality
the mind may classify and dissect and categorize
files and folders
but they are conceptual
here and there is conceptual
now and later
is conceptual
when you go directly to the reality of your experience you only find being
awareness consciousness
there is no separate entity anywhere to attain anything
it’s a myth
god hasn’t created separate forms and scattered them
20:00 in his kingdom this would be so cruel
there is no mountain to surmount
in order to realize the freedom that you are
because there is no separate entity
that
needs to overcome
ignorance
so in this moment
the understanding that there is no one no separate self
no no one to hold on to grasp anything
this is pure folly
for an imaginary character to be battling an imaginary current struggling not to drown
it is pure folly
so you don’t need to imagine yourself as anything
because whichever way you imagine yourself is a form of limitation
a reduction of your wholeness of your totality
god did not short change you
it is out of your freedom that you play the game of
25:02 poor me
what is this me that you you imagine yourself to be
what for
sooner or later you have to drop it
it’s a dead corpse
there’s some storyline that we are so habituated to
we somehow are comfortable with and at the same time we resent it
want to be free of this me storyline and yet somehow we maintain it
but sooner or later you lose interest in this unhappy charade.
