Meditation – The illusion of separation appears within awareness
03/05/2023
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welcome everyone lovely to see you to be with you
so just to remind you
we will be starting with a guided meditation and then we can engage in conversation questions whatever.
so if you can turn your attention inward
sit comfortably
there’s nothing in particular that you need to do
you don’t need the past you don’t need to remember anything try to figure anything out
because you already are
as presence
which is your effortless natural reality
everything that appears to you appears within this effortless presence
alive
it’s simple
sensations in your body appear within this effortless awareness which you are that which you are
and everything that appears to you is like a breeze sort of weather
in movement a flow
you don’t need to retain anything whatever is necessary is available 4:56
there is no one that you need to cater to
you are this Invisible Presence right now this reality the reality being evident
awareness is evident to itself
it’s so freeing and in a way so simple not to define yourself in any way not to be defined in any way
no need for any limitations
to be not knowing is what being is
being is effortlessly not knowing
without any separation
conceptually we make differences between this and that
but there are no possible differences in self and being I which is this formless awareness
cannot be defined as a male or female
nothing that you need to do
because there is no separate doer anyway
the body may have a name but you don’t have a name
you are not separate from the sound of the barking dog in the distance
10:04 because there is no distance
everything is a reverberation of your very self
a reverberation of being
there is no happiness tomorrow because there is no tomorrow
you don’t need to seek anything because nothing is a part from your true self
you don’t need to identify with the body
we don’t need to identify in any way
what for for what benefits would you choose to identify with a mortal form
it’s not necessary
in the scriptures there is the saying tat tvam asi thou art that
I and that are not two I and this are not two this and that are not two
if you look directly at your experience in this moment you will find that experientially there is nothing apart from you
conceptually the oak tree is apart from you but experientially 14:58 the oak tree is not apart from you
conceptually you may distinguish yourself from a thought that is appearing to you but experientially there is no separation between you and the thought that you perceive
why not rely on your experience investigate explore your experience rather than what concepts refer to
experientially tat tvam asi – thou are that conceptually this is not that and that is not this
but what is your experience
take a look
the thought that you are a person that you are a body mind that you are a separate entity
appears within awareness like raindrops appear to you
like hunger appears to you like a memory appears to you
what appears to you doesn’t define you it’s already the past
but in presence in this moment it’s only awareness
one could say it takes on the form of this conversation right now but the conversation is already in the past
what is it that is not in the past that is not in time
it is that in which time appears
you are that in which time appears and not something which appears in time or space
you don’t need to worry so much about the impression of separation you can simply understand that it is the game of Shiva
20:00 it is an aspect of manifestation
the play of ignorance the play of self forgetfulness it is just the play of Shiva
nothing is happening to you because you are that to which nothing happens that that which is non-phenomenal the reality of all happenings
so whenever you notice that you are defining yourself as somebody notice that this self-definition is simply an internal weather an appearance within yourself which is undefined unmanifest
it is always available to you as your very self as your very being.
