Meditation – The person is the movie
08/21/2022
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so lovely to be with you and to be being is
and as being
there is peace the peace of being
so when you welcome yourself you are welcoming being being is welcoming itself
and then this welcoming there is no separate person
it is the totality welcoming itself
when you welcome the other you are welcoming yourself as that same being that same beingness that same reality
i refers to being
awareness
always available to you
always available to itself
although on one hand
i references the limited imaginary person
i also references borderless awareness
when you investigate i you start from i am somebody i am a person
i exist in time and space
there is a story about my past
my family my tribe
and some story about my future
5:05 but this story which is a series of images and feelings is an appearance it appears to you
it’s like a parade that is parading itself in front of your eyes
you are viewing
the story of me
and in order to view the story of me
and really get into it
you need to first define yourself as a particular me as a particular character
and buy into it
so there is this character which appears to you as images memories sensations feelings
and you have bought into
in this way of defining yourself this way of defining your true nature your true self
because there is only one true self only one reality
and i identify myself
with whatever it is that with that the character those images those feelings
i identify myself somehow
as a person with a personal life
a personal reality
and that’s the story of my life
i overlook
the i that which
is not an appearance i overlook the reality of awareness the reality of consciousness 9:50 as i identify myself with an object
but the person you believe yourself to be to perceive is in the movie you are in the theater viewing
you’re not actually in the movie you’re not actually limited you’re not a limited entity limited character subject to conditions subject to situations
so the sense of limitation
ignorance is a choice we make
meaning consciousness makes the choice that i the borderless awareness am an object a person a female a male form
how could you be something that you perceive
how could you be dependent and limited by body-mind activities and sensations that you perceive that appear to you
in you’re night dreams you dream various characters and you dream yourself to be one of these characters
you dream that every character in your dream including yourself being a character in the dream have their own personal thoughts
while in fact everybody’s thoughts in the dream including the thoughts of the character you imagine yourself to be are your own creation
and in the dream you’re surprised when you’re sitting with a friend in the dream and they tell you a joke and you’re listening to the joke and you don’t know the punchline
15:05 and when they tell you the punchline here you’re surprised and you start laughing and yet aren’t you the one who is dreaming
dreaming the joke you know already know the punchline
you are creating the entire show
and in spite of you being the creator of the entire show you are surprised
in your night dream you you open a door and you’re surprised by what you find
behind behind that door what you find in the room and yet you’re the creator of the dream
you are the creator of the room and you’re the creator of whatever it is that is in that room and yet you’re surprised
it’s exciting to be a character in the dream
falling in love falling out of love
overcoming obstacles
feeling excited elated
or feeling depressed abandoned lonely
there’s certain excitement in that
until you decide you’re no longer interested in buying into this bill of goods
18:36 and then you lift the veil
