Meditation – The end of misery and suffering
10/27/2024
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Hello, everyone. Lovely to see you and to be together.
The heart of silence, always available.
Freshly.
In this moment, which is not a moment in time.
This transparent awareness, always shining.
Everything which appears to you is this transparent awareness manifesting itself as a perception, and simultaneously perceiving its creation.
You do not exist in time. You are not a narrative in time.
The me-story appears to you, revealing that you are free from the image on the screen as the perceiver, the invisible, the non phenomenal, the numinal aspect, the unborn, the unmanifest, which manifests itself from itself to itself, out of its freedom.
There is only one freedom, and you know it as your true self.
In knowing yourself as that freedom, not as something, not as somebody, but as the primary principle.
You are free from suffering. You are free from the impression of personhood, of limitation, of separation, the impression of being in time and being in space.
You have always been that, that formless aware presence.
This ordinary mind is free, completely free, because the shackles are illusory.
It’s a dream you’re dreaming, and the belief you are maintaining.
And the belief that you, meaning consciousness, awareness, are born and exist in time and space.
Sooner or later, you see through this charade.
And you are open to complete not-knowing this pristine mind before birth and death, before any phenomenal aspect appears to you, before any identification.
Because you are that, before identification. Identification is your activity, but it is not necessary.
Even though you may have been habituated into a personal identity, even though you have been habituated to angst, the sense of lack, and this troublesome background in your life.
You are the freedom. You are not the subject to events and circumstances; the light of awareness.
The freedom from suffering is not available to a person.
Because there is no reality to a person.
And whatever the person attains in your imaginary realm only serves to aggrandize this separate-self.
Freedom from suffering is a freedom from the me-illusion.
This is simple understanding, a profound understanding, that you are the formless reality, that there is no evidence whatsoever that confirms that consciousness is limited, personal, and dependent on the world-body-mind.
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The world appears to you. The body appears to you in various ways, like in your night dream.
But you are not defined by that which you perceive, by that which appears and disappears.
Misery belongs to the person. One day, miserable, the next day a little bit better, the day after a deep depression.
Who is it? What is it that is beholding all this misery? How real is it?
Is it simply a powerful narrative which has embodied itself in various feelings, as various feelings and sensations.
But these feelings and sensations are ephemeral, when we do not hold on to them, cement them, and define ourself.
It is possible to notice how ephemeral they are, and how much power we give them, and how strongly we grasp on to them, argue, and enter in combat with our feelings and emotions, in order to find peace.
Is it possible to find peace via resistance and seeking, via argumentation? Via regret?
What sort of peace is that? When we are internally engaged in argumentation.
Who is the sufferer? What is its reality?
Can you answer this question without using the past, without using memory and history?
But why hold on to memory and history of what usage is it?
Can we risk being open without knowing, without narrative, above all, without self definition.
Freedom from the past.
Of what good is this comparative mind, this judgmental mind, which we keep returning to?
What service are these anchored positions that we hold on to our personal point of view, our belief structures, our habitual ways of acting, perceiving, responding, repeating the old, maintaining the patterns.
How happy is that? You can take a look in your life, and you can let go.
By being still, by not maintaining the unhappy parents.
It’s possible to step into the unknown.
Because the known we’ve been living, the known for quite a while now. But it hasn’t delivered the peace that we seek, the peace that we know, the peace that we are veiled by the belief that we’re a separate entity, mortal.
Sometimes we think if we perform a certain sadhana, we will be free and happy at some point in time.
But what is this me? What is this person? Who is it? Who who are you considering yourself to be? A Sadhanist!?
It is said that all is well in God’s kingdom.
What other kingdom is there?
The human kingdom? Your personal kingdom? Your cocoon kingdom, your bubble kingdom.
There’s only one reality and that is freedom itself, love, beauty.
And irrespective of the narratives of the mind, you are that love, freedom, and beauty.
Beyond the mind, beyond feelings and sensations, let it all go.
So, if there are any questions, please make sure to unmute yourself. You can raise your hand.
