Meditation – We perceive the world at our human scale
08/28/2022
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okay welcome everyone lovely to see you and to meet you
hello richard holly hello sarah holger and john
just a couple of words because of newcomers the first part of this meeting will be a guided meditation and then you’re welcome to post whatever questions you have anything that you’d like to discuss
and also the meeting is recorded and holger will be posting it on youtube following a day or so
so just sit comfortably and just for this meeting you can let everything be as it is no need to solve any problems that you may need to solve you can solve them later on deal with issues but for now welcome yourself welcome your experience
freshly
whatever thoughts may appear
bodily sensations
to simply remain as you are as presence
not trying to improve or change your experience
so it’s a sort of relaxation
is sinking sinking into into being
no effort is required or needed to simply be
awareness is
effortless
there is a peace and equanimity
4:58 as awareness
there is a freshness an immediacy to this experience
it’s not a story that’s unfolding in time
it is pure presence
and you are this presence
an image may appear a thought a sensation may appear a bodily sensation
you are the aware presence which perceives
the thought that you perceive or the sensation that you perceive may have a certain quality a certain duration
a certain coloring
but the awareness the reality which perceives
has no shape no size and no coloring
which we refer to as i
that which is perceived via the instrument of the body mind is limited defined by the qualities of the body-mind
but that which you are that which is that which perceives
is beyond the body-mind instrument
which i refer to as consciousness awareness
like the wide open sky
the wide open sky may appear blue from the perspective of the human visual cortex but in fact the infinite sky has no color
from a different instrument like a 10:01 gamma ray instrument or x-ray instrument perception of the wide open sky is not blue it’s a bunch of x-rays and gamma rays but the wide open sky is not made out of gamma rays or x-rays
similarly we perceive the world the body and the mind via the world body mind instrument via the body-mind instrument
which defines that which is perceived
we perceive colors but the color blind visual cortex does not perceive color or perceives colors differently
we perceive thoughts which are firing of neurons within the brain interacting with a nervous system that’s flowing through the body and interacting with the world
temperatures surrounding the body the events surrounding the body
and very specific perceptions that are specific to this particular moment
a thought that arises in this moment is a the dance of the current the current dance of the world and the body and the mind in this moment
which is constantly changing
but that which does not change in your experiences awareness
whichever thought you’re perceiving irrespective of the thought that is perceived
awareness remains transparent colorless shapeless formless
that which does not change in our experience is awareness i awareness
which we refer to as reality
that which perceives
this reality is not female or male
is not a woman a man a son a daughter
that which is perceived may be male female tall short green yellow red
but that which perceives is neither blue nor red neither tall nor short neither male nor female
it’s a important understanding about yourself your true self
but when you believe yourself to be a woman a man a person you have identified yourself with a machine with a mechanism with an instrument 15:01 you’ve identified yourself with a body-mind instrument
and this identification limits your horizon
and effects your sense of freedom love and beauty confines you to the impression of mortality
you’re no longer in this borderless awareness rather you have somehow adopted the belief that you’re born and you’re bound to die via your identification with the body
none of which is true
although the body is mortal you are not.
