Meditation – The importance of Viveka
04/30/2023
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Welcome everyone
notice your experience and allow it to be just as it is
meaning you as presence
you don’t need to pursue any experience in this moment
so you invite yourself to doing nothing simply being
no need to fix anything no need to alter your experience or attempt to alter your experience
which is not possible because everything which appears to you disappears instantaneously
it is known, meaning it is perceived but it is not retained
because from the perspective of freedom, from the perspective of consciousness from the perspective of reality there is no grasping
nothing lacking because there is nothing separate
in fact 5:06 everything appears to you as a flow out of yourself and to yourself, you are the perceiver as well as the conceiver
there is no limit to creativity, no limit to creation
there is no limit to reality the reality of consciousness
this borderless creative awareness simultaneously creates and perceives
without being moved by its creation without being altered
You don’t need to seek any experience
in this moment of being there is no past or future
Presence is not a moment between the past and the future
that which has a beginning and an ending is an appearance
within this transparent awareness which has no beginning no ending
Forms and shapes appear to you with specific shapes and forms specific details and colors, sounds
everything that appears to you has distinct characteristics which the mind can label and recognize
10:02 but you, this aware presence
has no particular shape or form of color
that which is real neither appears nor disappears
in the Hindu tradition, we speak of discrimination Viveka
warning against mistaking that which appears to be real and mistaking the reality which perceives and which is not perceived to be a concept, to be not real to be less real
it’s okay to be enamored with the world, to play in the garden while knowing that the reality of the world is not in the world.
The reality of that which is perceived, is not in that which is perceived
knowing that the reality of that which is perceived is not perceived.
It is consciousness not perceivable to the senses
which we commonly refer to as I
I is not a male or female form but I is this transparent, invisible to the senses, aware presence
not to attribute a separate reality to forms
14:59 not to attribute a separate reality to thoughts memories
not to attribute a separate reality to what we refer to as feelings
and above all to notice to notice how we define I, the Self
as a form, as a mortal form
as a person, as a body mind
to attribute the reality of consciousness to a body-mind form
which is the original identification, the core identification
it is available to us to discern, to perceive, to understand
that identifying I, which is the reality which perceives right now
in any form, in any manner, is a falsehood I think the Christians scriptures speak about Falling out of Grace
identifying yourself in any form is a falling out of grace
What goes hand in hand, in the Hindu scriptures with Viveka is the concept of dispassion, Vairagya – how it is be referred to
to be in the world with a certain degree of dispassion
just as a Sadhana, as an expedient mean
in order not to fall in the trap of being mesmerized by forms to enjoy the world with a certain degree of dispassion
It’s just a practice it’s just a tool a crutch of sort
in particular to be dispassionate towards our own thoughts and feelings, feelings about each other and about ourselves not to give power to forms
thoughts are a form, a subtle form like any other form
20:00 to be malleable to be playful, innocent, childlike with your thoughts and your opinions
to be light
whenever you give reality to the body mind at the expense of consciousness you will experience a sense of limitation, worry and concern and fears
take a look at that see if it applies
we are surrounded with beauty.
