What is the role of the mind in awakening? Availability to beauty.

Meditation – What is the role of the mind in awakening? Availability to beauty.

05/07/2023

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Welcome

so if you can send your attention to your experience in this moment

and notice that your experience is made out of perception

thoughts sensations

which appear to you effortlessly

and that there is another aspect to your experience which is not visible to the senses

which is the perceiving aspect the knowing aspect the awareness aspect of your experience

the screen the space within which this hearing is taking place right now

and you can ask yourself am I the perceiving aspect?

or am I something which is perceived?

am I a perception? am I thought? am I in memory? am I a sensation?

or am I the reality which perceives?

am I a visible objective visible form or am I awareness?

because your experience is composed of both that which you perceive as well as the perceiving aspect awareness

you can rest as that question allowing the question to take you to the answer

5:05 because the answer is at the source of the question

which is our interest in understanding understanding our experience

and having clarity about what I refers to

there is the mind and the activity of mind meaning thoughts and Sensations and perceptions

the mind is available to us meaning thoughts sensations and perceptions

are available to us for practical functional purpose

but also as tools which can be directed towards understanding

not just understanding about how to navigate this world and Body Mind

but understanding about truth

so the mind can be turned outwards towards the world body

in order to help us navigate the world of manifestation

but it can also be turned inward to investigate the reality of our experience

whenever you ask yourself what is the reality of my experience

sometimes a question which is asked is what am I truly what is I what is the real I?

whenever you inquire into reality via the mind you are inquiring into the changeless

to that which you are absolute about you are certain about

that which is always available to you that which you will always find right there 9:58 whenever you look and wherever you look

which is I the changeless beingness knowingness

that which perceives that which is that which does not come in and out of existence

that which you know yourself to be before any thought arises

that which precedes manifestation precedes all appearances

and permeates manifestation permeates appearance

that without which nothing can be

that which is the isness of whatever exists

as the mind is turned in that direction

investigating and exploring questioning the belief that reality is physical

questioning the belief that reality is personal and finite

questioning the belief that I reality exists in time in space

is sincere question not seeking to swap an old belief with a new belief but looking for certainty

15:09 for the understanding that is beyond any doubt

what is it that you can be absolutely certain of this moment?

there is something rather than nothing

there is a reality whatever that is

and this something rather than nothing takes on infinite forms and shapes and yet it has no inherent form and no inherent shape

I can be absolutely certain of being

not being somebody not being something which appears

but beingness itself

we can be absolutely certain of awareness there is awareness

the wondrous magical aspect of awareness

mind-blowing awareness

there are colors and shapes and forms and sounds and sensations those different forms

but there is no separation between awareness the knowing element the knowing aspect of our experience right now and perception

there is no separation to awareness and perception

when we use the mind to investigate separation we find the belief we find a concept of this and that

these concepts may be useful this table and that bed this cat that dog

useful concepts

experientially experience precedes the concept meaning awareness presence 20:02 precedes the concept which arises in awareness out of awareness

the concept of inside and outside the concept of here and there

experientially there is no here and there

is no inside no outside it’s just presence awareness

beingness not knowingness

so not to mistake the conceptual realm with the reality of our experience not to confuse the mind with consciousness

to use the mind when appropriate and as appropriate knowing

but it’s a tool in your hands in the hands of consciousness

so I invite you to turn your mind inwardly and inquiry investigate the belief that you are a person

that you are born that you have a beginning an ending

conduct your own investigation your own inquiry look into it

investigate the evidence that you have that I is born that I exists in time

that’s reality exists in a bigger reality called time

take a look at your experience and check it out that there is no separation experientially

that separation is a conceptual model useful in some cases

this is my house that is your house

if you want to go downtown go to the right don’t go to the left

concepts can be very useful practical in a practical way

but when it comes to clarity about peace and happiness you have to go to the source and come to the understanding that it is the source itself

which is seemingly veiling itself and unveiling itself

you not you the body mind not to the bundle of thoughts and memories 25:01 but you the reality of being awareness is this source playing the game of ignorance and return to the knowledge you are.