Meditation – Undisturbable peace
05/04/2025
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Hello, everyone.
Lovely to be with you and to share this presence that which we are which is sharing itself already.
Invite yourself for the duration of this meeting to suspend the past.
Meaning not to interfere with your experience whichever way it’s appearing right now.
Whatever is appearing on the screen whatever thoughts appear to you whatever sensations whatever images let them be.
Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to fix anything. Don’t try to improve your experience. Let it be. Let things be. Let yourself be. Take a break.
Whatever appears is okay whatever sensations appears thoughts don’t worry. You’re okay. All is well.
Notice that whatever appears to you are just fleeting passing impermanent images. You’re not fabricating them. They simply appear to you from wherever their source is wherever they appear from.
Who cares right now?
Contemplate that: although it may seem that what appears to you affects you or impacts you in fact, it doesn’t.
At least be open to that possibility: that whatever takes place in the body whatever takes place in the world whatever takes place in the mind in a way and to a certain extent is not too relevant.
It’s not relevant to that which you are.
And in your experience right now the body is male or female body. The voice you are hearing is a male voice.
But none of this defines you.
Whether you are perceiving a lake a mountain, or a city or the wide open sky you are the same effortless awareness.
That’s how it is. Thoughts appear and disappear. Memories. Bodies constantly changing; in deep sleep, they disappear. Upon the death of the body the body disappears.
But could we be available to the possibility that I neither appear nor disappear?
Can we relax our identification with the body, with the mind?
It’s not necessary here right now in particular. No need for any identification.
There is no need to visualize yourself as a person as somebody as a daughter a son.
Simply notice effortless being effortless awareness which is neither female nor male not seeking anything simply shining the shining light of awareness.
When you look at the moon you see the moon shine and you believe that the moon is shining but it is the sun that is shining.
Everything that you perceive it is awareness consciousness that is shining.
There is peace and freedom in the understanding that you are this formless awareness without denying that there are male and female bodies that there are events in the world. There’s no need to deny the waves on the surface of the ocean. There’s no need to deny the currents within the ocean.
But what is the reality of the waves and what is the reality of the currents? What is the reality of your thoughts of your perceptions of your sensations right now?
You have to answer right now without using the mind because the mind lives in time in the past in history.
It is ruminating stuff. It regurgitates stuff.
So you invite yourself to your innate freedom without defining yourself by what is appearing on the screen.
When you take a look at your experience right now you perceive perceptions you perceive sensations you perceive the thought that I am this person. I am a person. I am a man. I am a woman.
You perceive that. Why believe something you perceive?
It is sufficient to acknowledge that I perceive that thought. In the dream you perceive yourself to be a butterfly. Why believe that you are a butterfly? You perceive yourself to be a butterfly a beautiful butterfly going from flower to flower. So exciting.
Or you may perceive yourself ailing. The body is sick or losing your fortune in your dream.
You are perceiving and the perceiver is not perceived. It’s invisible to the senses. And yet you cannot deny the fact of perception and you cannot deny that you perceive.
But this you which perceives is not something you imagine. It is the direct experience of perceiving right now.
If you take a look that which perceives is invisible and yet everything it perceives is in complete intimacy with the perceiving aspect with the perceiver.
The world the thoughts the sensations you perceive are made out of you.
This is why the sages say that you are nobody and everybody. You are nothing and everything. You are not separate from the universe. The universe is not separate from you.
But take a look in your belief structure you believe yourself to be this particular body mind. I am this and not that. I am this and not that.
Where did that come from?
Why do we choose I am this and not that? I am this body but I am not the oak tree. I am this mind but I am not the wide open sky. I am not the wind. I am not the rain.
Don’t be so sure.
Science has already made some headway in the direction of one reality which in the old days they referred to as matter.
Doesn’t matter how you refer to it. It’s one reality. One. This one movement one flow one interactive field.
Of course we are talking about the phenomenal realm because scientists study phenomena.
One interactive field. An event that happens in galaxies that are a billion light years away is simultaneously happening across the entire galactic field.
What? Yes.
Our puny mind linear mind hypnotized by the belief that I’m born and that I’m going to die. Oh my God! What is going to happen to me after I die? What is this me?
Body is dying every second. From the moment it’s born it’s in the process of dying.
What’s the big mystery there? Look at the rose from the rosebud the beautiful rose which we put in a vase with some food for the roses a few days later the petals gently fall off the stem.
Why do we hold on so tightly to something which we are not? Grasping. We grasp out of fear.
The fear of ending?
Have you asked yourself what is it that ends? What is it that begun? Where did I come from?
There is a Zen koan that asks: what is your face before your birth?
You do not exist in time. And time appears to you.
You need to free yourself from the belief and impression that you exist in time.
Time and space.
