Meditation – What am I truly?
01/26/2025
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Hello everyone.
Lovely to be with you, and to share the invitation to simply be.
There is a shared beingness, which is our essential nature.
So I welcome you and invite you to be available.
Before we proceed…
We take a moment to express our love for our dear Tara, who left us this week. Only in appearance because we never leave that which we are.
Although there is a recognition that a wave arises out of the ocean and returns to the ocean, there is a deep sorrow.
A reflection of the love, an expression of the love.
The grief is connected to the love.
Tara always expressed her deepest desire was to be free from ignorance, free from the illusion of separation. She used to say: I want to finish it up.
That’s very beautiful. We are together as one. We may miss each other, but we are one. We are truly one.
We have a common goal.
It’s a very important understanding to reach in this brief passage, which we call life, the human life.
You are not that which you imagine yourself to be. You are not the body mind form which you perceive. You are not defined by the feelings. You’re not defined by the emotions.
You’re not defined by whatever beliefs you have about yourself.
Some important understanding that you are this invisible, formless, aware presence, borderless, non-phenomenal, which is the love.
You are the love. We already are that. We are that.
That is what our true nature is. And we are here to come to this understanding, to share this understanding, and to celebrate to celebrate each other from that understanding. To nurture this understanding and to help each other in our life. To return to this understanding and deepen it.
Because sooner or later, we have to go through the veil, the veil of that which keeps us feeling and believing that we are a mortal entity.
Bodies come and go. Thoughts come and go.
Everything which appears appears and disappears.
But we don’t! We do not appear and disappear, that which we are.
And what is that experientially? If you look in this moment, if you don’t refer to yourself, if you do not refer to time, to memory, to thinking.
What remains?
This, formless aware Presence. It takes on the form of sensations, thoughts.
But knowing yourself as that formless awareness, there is a freedom.
Freedom from attachment to beliefs.
Above all, freedom from the attachment to the belief that you’re a person, hat you’re a man or a woman. And the freedom to experience the screen, the images on the screen simultaneously.
There is no need to try to dilute or to avoid or to conceptualize the sadness or to understand it.
It is there full blast available to us.
We don’t need to know it with our mind. We don’t need to form a narrative about what’s unfolding.
But to be fully available and transparent to it all. Events happening in your life that have an impact on reverberation within your body to be available to it all lovingly, openly.
It’s an effortless embrace.
And, somehow, there is also the understanding that all is well.
When it comes to our true nature, there is no gain or loss. There is only love. Sometimes the expression of this love manifests itself like in this meeting right now, or manifest itself in simply being completely transparent to what’s unfolding.
Because this transparency is love. Images may appear that may impact on the body.
That’s okay too. That’s part of it. It’s part of how consciousness manifests. It’s always inviting us to take a look deeper.
To recognize that which is not visible to the senses.
What is that?
Yes, we are connected in this realm of the senses and the realm of mind. But this connection, in fact, is a connection of consciousness to itself. Like two waves in the ocean are made out of the same essence, water.
That is our true connection, our true nature, our true Self.
To allow the wave to unfold, whichever way it’s unfolding. Not to force your will onto it, wanting it to be different. Wanting life to be your way.
We never know what’s around the corner, but we are available right now, fully available to what is unfolding, including the pain, the sorrow, the hardship sometimes of caring for a friend, the challenges.
I remember, Tara was sharing with me, in her last few days, she said, all is love.
So true. We are that love.
And so wonderful that we have this life that we’re living to to express the love, to share the love, not to operate from a place of fear and not to operate from a place of concern, personal concern, personal worry, because there is no truth to a person. This is no separation, in fact. We’re one in truth in reality in the absolute sense.
There’s nothing that’s ever removed or added to us, to what we truly are.
Thus our path is to come to the understanding that we are not a body mind entity. There is no reality to a person and a personal story. It’s just a narrative.
And the second part of the journey, as a way of speaking, is to live according to that understanding.
Because it is living according to the understanding that we are this transparent presence, this one reality, this one consciousness, that the remaining debris of ignorance are released, come to the surface, and dissolve in your understanding and in the way you are living.
Meaning, how you are acting, how you are acting, how you are thinking, how you are perceiving.
You are all here because you already have that understanding. Just we’re here reminding each other.
Maybe one could say, renewing our commitment or refreshing our commitment to truth, to the full liberation. to Universal Love.
Mind, world, body appear to you. They do not define you.
Thoughts appear to you.
You navigate them out of love and sweetness and harmony and universal love, not just your personal self.
Beware, the personal self tendency is unhappy in the short run and in the long run.
When Tara passed, Francis came over and sat quietly by her side.
He said the wave has never left the ocean.
Life goes on.
Let’s live this life out of beauty, kindness, tenderness, caring for each other, exploring our true self, to become free from fear, to live out of the freedom, our innate freedom.
Freedom from fear, freedom from worry and concern, navigating the waters. Gracefully.
For each one of us to find out moment by moment.
And whatever we do has an impact on everybody.
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So, If you have any questions, well, you can unmute yourself and raise your hand.
