Meditation – The path of inquiry and the path of love

07/26/2022

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okay hello everybody hello mark holger

holly welcome back holly from your travels and dennis

so just a couple of words because of mark and dennis being new here that

i just conduct a short guided meditation and then you’re welcome to post whatever questions you may have

so the meditation is pretty simple just simply welcome your experience as it is

invite your body and mind to simply be restful

so for now you can suspend all your activities

just for the period of this meeting

to simply be

allow whatever thoughts or images appear to you to be as they are meaning don’t engage in fixing anything or improving anything or judging anything

without any agenda

rather than holding on to the idea that you are a person that you are a man or a woman

just for now contemplate that you are the reality which perceives the reality which hears these words

without any need to define this reality in any in any manner in any way

that which perceives which hears words right now is i

you don’t need to define i

as a male body or female person or in any manner

so i is whatever it is that perceives whatever it is that is

when you don’t define yourself in any way

there is an openness

an open not knowing

which is not missing anything which is not incomplete

8:18 today i wanted to say a few words about the path of knowledge and the path of love

the path of knowledge is sometimes referred to as the Jnana path and the path of love as a the

Shakti

the path of devotion

in fact this distinction between two path is just a conceptual distinction

because in in the path of knowledge in the path of inquiry it’s referred to as atmavishara there is love for truth

because there is love for truth we investigate we investigate the belief that consciousness is personal and limited

and in the bhakti path

we love truth

we love god which is truth which is reality

and truth and knowledge are not two truth and understanding are not two

and sometimes in our journey we are more engaged in inquiry and higher reasoning and investigation into truth

and at a different time in our journey the bhakti so-called bhakti

phase of our journey we

just merged in into love

drunk with the love of god love of truth

all rivers lead to the ocean the destination is one

which is love and understanding wisdom and love

wisdom without love is too dry love without wisdom is too mushy

one could say that the path of inquiry addresses the mind and the bhakti path addresses the the body the feelings but the mind and the body are not two

understanding affects the body affects how you feel about the world how you feel about others

when the love brings also the understanding that the other is your very self

which is very different from an emotion or a sentiment

so in this moment you know that consciousness is real

and that this consciousness refers to i i aware presence

and also you experience the peace the peace of this understanding the understanding that there is one reality meaning there is no opposition and nothing lacking

no opposition is peace and nothing lacking is happiness

so in the understanding about no division one reality the understanding about nothing lacking we experience peace and happiness as our very nature