Meditation – Resting as Awareness
06/01/2023
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Welcome.
So we can turn our attention towards where the attention comes from.
It does not come from the past It does not come from memory.
It is always a fresh Moment.
What is the substance of this moment?
It is not that which appears and disappears. It is not in the wavelets, at the surface of the pond.
What is your very essence. In this moment.
Which is not a moment in time, because time stops in this question.
What is your reality? Not the name or age of your body.
Not a stream of thoughts, which appears like the wind. Appears.
What is it? There is Unchanging them.
Changeless. New Experience.
You can rest as this not knowing. Allowing the mind to sink into this question that has no bottom.
You know you are. You know there is something rather than nothing.
You know that. You are aware that there is awareness.
And that this awareness does not come and go has no color or shape or size, or beginning or ending.
Like this awareness, the reality which hears these words, right now has no on and off switch.
That it is not contained in a container.
You know, you are aware. And that everything which appears within awareness is intimate with awareness. It cannot be without awareness.
The reality of your thoughts. The reality of your memories The reality of your sensations
is this formless awareness, this formless presence.
So recognize yourself as this formless invisible presence which knows itself, and which perceives and understands.
There is no personal effort involved. There is no person outside of your imagination, outside of the imagination of consciousness.
There is no reality to a person, who does effort or does more effort or less effort?
There is a knowingness which does not belong to the mind.
The absolute certainty of being, in the absolute certainty of awareness.
Everything else contains a grain of doubt.
Resting as awareness means not resting as anything else.
Not resting as a woman, as a man, as a person, as somebody.
An imaginary somebody with a beginning and an ending.
Both of which are imaginary because that which hears these words does not know any beginning or any ending.
It is beyond time. That which Is is absolute.
Formless consciousness, borderless, non-local, impersonal are absolute.
So the peace that you seek is already that which you are.
In reality your true self, your true nature is already peace itself.
You don’t need to imagine yourself to be a person, a woman, a mother, a daughter, a father, a son.
That’s the body the body can be male or female. You don’t need to refer to yourself. the reality of being as a body, as a person, as somebody.
Whenever you are not referring to yourself as somebody existing in time and space that is meditation, that is truth, that is love, that is peace, that is freedom.
