Meditation – The sense of I
11/10/2024
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Hello, everyone.
Lovely to see you and to know you as myself.
Beautiful beings. The same awareness. The same ocean.
We welcome the totality of our experience.
Without any separation without any judgment.
Completely surrendered. Complete availability.
Like a newborn baby. This fresh moment.
The mind is clear and restful. Because we know ourselves as this transparent presence.
Not as somebody. No past. No future. Nothing to defend.
Relaxing our seeking habit. Without any worry without any personal concern.
We dive in. We let go. Without trying to reach any goal.
This moment of complete peace. To take a break from this endless activity of resisting and seeking arguing and judging. Letting go of all images of ourselves.
We say yes to that.
No need to know what’s next because that would be mind stuff.
Maybe this moment is sufficient. Like when we go swimming and we dive in completely submerged. There is a moment of silence a moment of peace. Like when the body is dissolving in deep sleep.
And yet, in this moment you’re aware.
There is this effortless awareness which is undeniable.
Nothing you’re trying to do in order to be aware. It is effortless it is just there of its own.
Formless and so precious this ordinary awareness which we sometimes refer to as the ground of being or the background while in fact there is no foreground and no background.
It is possible to be complete presence which is a sort of personal absence.
The gap between two perceptions. The gap which permeates all perceptions.
To be, for a moment free from personal ambition free from personal concerns.
Free from any personal identification because there is no need for identification.
There’s no need to hold on to the past.
No need to identify yourself with any form. All forms are limited bound by time and space.
But the sense of I without any identification just a sense of being awareness.
Before we try to formulate it color it personify it weave a narrative about it…
There is a purity. A formlessness to this sense of self.
Before this sense of self becomes tainted by history and by memory.
This impersonal knowingness which we all know experientially before our personal narratives:
The I am.
Which is this ordinary awareness knowing itself: I am aware. I know I am aware.
It’s an open knowingness a formless borderless knowingness that has no personal entity in it. No objects. No separation.
There is no need to narrow the sense of I by various attachments unnecessary identifications.
There is a certain freedom in being which is immediately restricted and veiled when being becomes being somebody.
The worries and the concerns about this me, somebody. It’s an unhappy narrative.
So the journey is a journey of understanding about the true nature of being your true experience your true self as not a thing not anything perceived not anything felt not anything conceived.
But this formless invisible to the senses aware presence.
In this understanding there is the revelation of love beauty freedom causeless happiness.
The ordinary mind is revealed to be God’s mind.
Your old shackles of time and space are seen to be illusory shackles.
The impression of mortality materiality is released from the body-mind. That is your true home!
The ground of being your true self that which truly is and knows it is.
That is your formless reality.
The reality of everything you perceive everything you conceive.
And you can let go of the tight shoes of identification.
So, if you have any questions, make sure you unmute yourself.
And if you don’t mind turning on your videos, whoever feels like it, I always enjoy seeing you.
So any questions?
