Meditation – The nature of the Self
09/26/2024
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Welcome, everyone.
Lovely to be with you.
Since there are a couple of newcomers, just a reminder that this meeting will start with a short guided meditation, which will be followed by whatever questions you may have.
So, to start with, if you can sit comfortably and, either close your eyes or turn your attention inward. And welcome your experience just as it appears to you.
There is a still quiet place available to you. Always there.
So welcome yourself to and as this silent presence.
Which is peace. There’s no effort which is required.
It’s a sort of welcoming welcoming your experience just as it is without a goal, without a personal purpose.
Whatever appears to you, whether it’s a perception, hearing these words, a thought appears to you effortlessly.
It appears to you as awareness, taking on the form of a perception, or a sensation. It is seamless.
And you are not separate from this awareness.
There is no distance between yourself and awareness.
Whether it takes on the form of a thought or a sensation, or whether it takes on no form.
Awareness without a form.
Awareness shining from Itself to Itself.
Which is your experience of being aware you are aware.
The shining light of awareness.
There is freedom. There is the sense of I, which is different from I am somebody different from I am a father, a mother, a son, a daughter
It’s the pure I pure amness before being dressed up with the body mind.
The I am knows it is.
Amness, meaning being and knowingness, meaning awareness, go hand in hand.
That is the screen of awareness, which is and is self knowing.
I Am and I know that I Am. Isness is and knows it is.
Allow these words to transport you wherever they do. There is no need for you to do anything, right now.
And then there are images on the screen of awareness: thoughts, memories, perceptions, preferences, bodily sensations.
It’s a screen which generates images out of its absolute freedom, the creative aspect, infinite creativity.
The screen remains unmoved, and untouched, undisturbed by its creativity.
Your direct experience is this transparent, invisible, formless awareness, every moment.
Colored by thoughts, images, sensations.
In this moment, awareness is shining, hearing and sensing, appear within awareness. They appear to awareness, to the Sat-Chit, being-knowingness. Sat-Chit-Ananda-Nama-Rupa.
That is your experience. The stream of thought what you refer to as mind. Sensations and perceptions and mentations are transient, changing, shifting, morphing, appearing and dissolving.
And there is that in your experience which neither appears nor disappears.
This knowingness, this being knowingness, consciousness, awareness, which is neither male nor female, neither blue nor red nor green, neither tall nor short. That which is and cannot not be.
What is the true nature of the self?
The real nature of the self.
Is it not that which is and cannot not be?
What is your true nature? Is it a stream of thoughts and sensations? Or is it that which cannot not be?
This effortless presence-awareness, formless, invisible to the senses, and yet undeniable. Is it not?
Your true nature. The one and only reality, which we know experientially as this causeless peace, the ground of being, our true home.
Thinking is conditioned. It’s conditioned by our upbringing, our culture, our experiences, our past, our religious beliefs, tribal nature.
What is it that is not conditioned? The unborn, it’s available, for you to find out, because you are That.
The light, the sunlight shines on the surface of the pond, glitters.
You are the pond. The sunlight and the glitter.
Sometimes there is a wind, you are the wind.
Sometimes there are wavelets, you are the wavelets.
You are all of it, and none of it.
