Meditation – What is the path when we are not-knowing?
02/23/2023
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so you are welcome either close your eyes or turn your gaze inward
allow your experience to be whichever way it is
you do not exist in time
whatever appears to you is like the weather is the external weather
sounds perceptions
then there is the internal weather thoughts sensations you are nobody you’re not somebody and at the same time you are everybody
you are not something and yet nothing exists without you
the mind – meaning thoughts – appear to you various body-minds appear to you
none of which define you like the many colors of a rainbow do not define the white light
colorless
formless
it does not matter much what thoughts or Sensations appear to you
5:00 as long as you do not refer to yourself in any limited way
whenever you’re trying to improve yourself you’re just trying to improve
something which you imagine yourself to be
you can improve the health of the body we can improve your knowledge about music or about how things function in the world
but improving yourself requires the assumption that you are something or someone that can be improved
and you’re not that
when you know yourself to be somebody you have limited yourself because your true nature is not in time not known by the mind
the mind is just a movement within you which is your movement like the movement of water as waves your thoughts your Sensations and your perceptions are like the movement of water with your movement as mind but you are not limited by the movements we are not limited in any way
it is only the belief that you know what you are that you are a man a woman that you’re a person that you’re somebody it is this false knowingness which binds you and gives you the impression that you need to improve yourself that you need to become a better somebody
none of which is true
your reality is not knowing
being not knowing
I know I am
but I don’t know what I am nor do I need to know what I am
because what I am is just a movement within the mind the good the bad they are just movements of the Mind 9:53 you’re neither good nor bad none of this applies to you
so your path to not knowing is to disrobe yourself from knowing what you are
to simply be exposed
not relying on the previous thought and the second thought to define you to simply be not in time not defining yourself as a continuum in time because there is no continuity in time to consciousness
eternity and not a continuity the continuity is in the realm of thoughts and perceptions but not in the realm of being
being is not continuous it is eternal not in time
you can comprehend that because you are not in time
the truth resonates to itself it recognizes itself and knows itself irrespective of the mind arguing
and wanting proof
being is its own proof the formless reality which is and which perceives right now is its own proof
its own validation it does not require a validation via memory or via thought or via recollection of some experience
if you can come to pure presence right now
meaning to simply being doing nothing
allow yourself to sink into being
which is being sinking into itself
it’s nothing that somebody as a personal doer does anything
you are already that which I am
you’re already the I am the amness the beingness
15:14 you don’t need to be loved because you are love itself
we don’t need to be made whole because you are wholeness itself
we don’t need to project yourself as an image as somebody
you don’t need to project others as somebody
because what you are is not an image
not some sort of projection nor is anybody else
whenever you project yourself you are limiting yourself
no matter how great that projection is it’s still finite
when you return to not knowing you are returning to truth
because there is no way to define truth
truth knows itself like you know yourself
you know yourself as being as presence as reality
not as a man or a woman somebody who is trying to get somewhere if you try to get somewhere you need to ask yourself what is this I that is trying to get somewhere
we will find a mental projection we will find memories and stories we will find the past and the future but you will not find the Peace of being you will not find presence you will not find Freedom we will not find love or joy
when you’re trying to improve yourself we are in the judgment business you are not in the understanding business not in the love business you are in the improvement business
judging others and judging yourself
it is just an in inner weather a habitual pattern
once you see it it loses its power
and there may be habits of the mind and habits of the body 20:04 but there are no habits to yourself
there are no habits to awareness.
