Meditation – The reality of thoughts
12/08/2024
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Welcome, everyone.
So if we can turn our attention to where the attention arises from.
The mind cannot find this place.
So we come to not-knowing.
You don’t need to do anything.
Simply relax into Being. Without any goal, because goals are fabrications of the mind.
In this meeting, we’re not interested in fabrications of the mind.
Do not interfere with your experience.
Do not try to understand it. Don’t try to fix it. Don’t judge it.
Because that would be separating yourself from your experience which is unhappy.
Notice the breath.
Whatever sensations appear to you welcome them unconditionally.
Just for now relax your tendency of thinking about the future or the past.
Let bygone be bygones.
In presence and as presence there is tranquility freedom peace.
The mind is docile, resting.
Only being activated as needed as appropriate.
Thoughts appear to you like clouds in the wide open sky. They are innocent. There is no danger.
Some thoughts may appear to be scary.
That is often the case when we imagine ourselves to exist in time and space. When we travel in our mind into the future or into the past.
The mind gets stirred up worries and regrets arise and at time fears.
Which seem to be quite real dangerous.
And in your storyline about yourself you experience danger fear in the narrative.
You imagine that your happiness is somewhere else or dependent on something that you need to do.
And so you spend your life trying to figure out what to do.
What is the path to this happiness which we all seek?
We get embroiled in thoughts and feelings. A labyrinth.
Endless spin of the mind. And yet out of the blue comes a moment where there is stillness. A parting of the clouds a dropping of the mind we experience causeless peace and causeless joy which are not produced by thinking not produced by any mind activity.
And oftentimes we love this moment of peace and happiness that we turn it into a goal that we must achieve.
And in doing so the mind starts spinning again and again.
It’s quite exhausting. We are so habituated to seeking things pursuing experiences holding on resisting pursuing.
Where is the tranquility in that?
Perceptions appear to you. The mind is engaged in perceptions fascinating and sometimes repulsive.
And we overlook the transparency of awareness. We overlook the invisible reality which right now perceives which right now hears these words.
We imagine that it is the body-mind which perceives.
Is that so?
Is the perceiving aspect right now in your experience, an object?
Objects are perceived.
If that which perceives is an object then you would perceive that which perceives. Which is not the case.
But the eye does not perceive itself.
That which perceives a tree does not perceive that which perceives the tree.
And yet can you deny that you perceive?
What is this you this I which perceives and which is undeniable?
Who can answer that question but yourself?
Because after all you are that which perceives not somebody else.
There is a reality which perceives.
This reality is available to you since after all it is you which perceives.
You have a direct knowingness of that reality which we refer to as I.
We all say: I perceive.
We simply need to understand that this I which perceives is not an object. Not a form. Not a limited entity. Not a mortal entity.
This reality is formless. Formless means beyond the limitations of form beyond the limitations of mind.
That which is beyond limitation is that which is real. And that which is limited appears and disappears.
The oak tree may be 200 feet tall but in a few years it will be struck down by the wind.
And will disappear as an oak tree.
You know that. In your experience there is that which is not struck down by the weather not affected by time not subject to conditions not dependent on time and space. What is it?
What is it that you know beyond any doubt to be absolutely real?
It’s transparent awareness which knows it is and knows it is aware.
Unmanifest. The source of all manifestation. It is the reality of all thoughts the reality of all perceptions.
No perceptions can be perceived can be known without the perceiving aspect without consciousness.
But consciousness does not need to perceive the Oak Tree in order to know that it is in order to know that it is conscious.
Allow yourself to sink deeper and deeper into not-knowing into being into presence without direction without objective.
Be available completely without any grasping without any notion of what you are doing or what you are.
