Meditation – The purity of the background of being
01/19/2023
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we’ll start this meeting with a brief meditation a guided meditation so just sit comfortably and turn your attention inward
and rest allowing your experience whatever you perceive
whatever is appearing just to let it be as it is
you don’t need to do anything don’t try to fix your experience or to solve any problems or improve how you feel just let it all be just for now
simply enjoy being
because being is joyful
without concern about figuring anything out
without being troubled by the past
allowing things to be as they are your body whichever way you’re feeling right now
notice that it’s possible for the mind to rest resting in presence
and how wonderful it is that you don’t need to do anything in order to Simply Be
like a newborn
a fresh moment
brand new
that has not yet been conditioned by thought and by time
by beliefs
that in this moment
you don’t need to be anyone or anything you don’t need to carry the past
no concerns about the future no need to Define yourself in any way whatsoever
4:51 there is freedom in not knowing what you are
without any identification
without any striving
notice the gentle movement of breath Prana
one of the many ways in which consciousness manifests
the warmth of the body maybe it’s not too warm
whichever way the body is appearing to you as sensation
it’s hard to pin it down this sensation
which is the sense of being
sometimes I speak about the background of being
we may wonder what what that is
this intuition that we have about
being Beyond 9:57 the form
being undefined by thoughts and feelings
that deep intuition that we have that we are not made out of matter
in this moment in every moment
that we are the invisible
presence
it’s aware
thoughts may appear
images appear
somehow we know deep down that we are not something which appears
that we are not defined by
perceptions we’re not defined by that which we perceive
we have this deep yearning
to be free and happy
irrespective of any situation irrespective of any condition
and although the Mind may direct us to various activities via which we will get there sometime in the future
deep down we know that we are that which we are looking for
we are right now this causeless peace and happiness
which I sometimes refer to as the background of being
but these are just words because in reality there is no background or foreground
14:54 such distinctions are conceptual in fact reality is one
but we are so habituated to refer to ourselves as the body and the mind as persons as some limited beings
we have created a distinction to create a division
between our formless and borderless reality
and the body mind
a conceptual separation
once we believe that we are body-mind a female or a male form
but then we experience the sense of separation
[…] like somebody who’s in the ocean who does not know very well how to swim and struggling to keep their head above water and to make their way to shore
but it’s not possible for you to ever leave your true self
it is not possible for you to be that which you are not
it’s not possible for you to be anything but 20:00 the self, this aware presence
although you may imagine yourself to be a person a man or a woman a mother or a father
you are this aware presence this borderless aware presence
in all states the waking state the sleep state the dream state the deep sleep state
you are that
which is not a state
turia
the ground of being
the infinite background of awareness
which appears as your mind which appears as the world that you perceive
which appears as the Avatar that you feel yourself to be
like in your night dreams you perceive yourself as a character in your night dream
when you perceive a variety of events in your night dream
none of which is separate from you you being the dreamer
and whatever happens to the characters in your dream
is your own creation which feels and seems so real yes
but nothing in this show whatsoever is happening to you
there are no borders to awareness
there are borders to bodies and to minds but there are no borders to awareness
notice in your own experience don’t believe any words that you are hearing check it out in your own experience
25:02 that you is this awareness is this presence
and that this presence this awareness has no borders no location
check it out
because it is your understanding which matters
