Meditation – What remains after death?
05/28/2023
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The presence of stillness is at the core of all activity, and there is no personal doer doing anything. The personal story is just a script being written on the clouds, and the interpersonal story is an imaginary story that can be entertaining or painful. When you believe yourself to be somebody in the story, you experience a sense of contraction, worry, and concern. However, the equilibrium is effortless, and it is not possible for the spinning mind to come upon the peace of being which is unloved.
The reality is that you are not in time and space, and you know the freedom, love, beauty, and joy that comes with it. You don’t need to identify with a body or mind, and you can trust your insight that you are not in time and space. The nature of the body is what it is, and it shows like shimmers on the surface of a wavelet. The dance and movement are like shimmers on the surface of the moon’s rays, but they have nothing to do with your true nature. You can explore your fear of death by exploring the narrative of what will happen to you once you die. However, there is no personal self, and there is no need to defend or protect this illusion.
Transcript:
Welcome
so welcome welcome yourself
you are always welcoming yourself as presence
welcoming each other as presence
presence welcoming itself effortlessly
at the core of all activity is stillness
silent still aware presence
there is nothing you need to do and there is no personal doer doing anything
it is presence itself which recognizes itself
the personal story is a script being written on the clouds which continuously dissolve which have no substance
your personal story is an imaginary story
entertaining in a way and quite painful in a way
you view your story like you view the sensation of hunger
like you view a beautiful rose
innocently
but as soon as 4:58 you believe yourself to be somebody in the story
as soon as you believe that there is a narrative which refers to an actual personal self
you experience the sense of contraction worry and concerned and the mind spins to return to equilibrium
but the equilibrium is effortless
it is not possible for this spinning mind the scrambling mind to come upon the Peace of being
which is unmoved
It is by imagining yourself to be an entity some sort of personal reality
that you imagine and experience yourself as being in time
with a beginning and the subsequent ending
it is a movement of thought an impression that comes in hand in hand with the belief that you are somebody
a son at daughter a person
you hear these words and sometimes the thought appears oh I’ve heard that before
I already know that what is it that knows that?
somebody who exists somewhere
someone? who is this someone this holy one that heard this before
the death of the body is what it is like the ripening of an orange on the orange tree 10:03 it is what it is
part of the tree part of the Earth part of the planets part of the galaxies
which are all Concepts and words terms notions
because there is no orange
and no tree and no words and no galaxies outside of the conceptual realm that defines them as such
experientially simply not knowing
before the mind before the script
I am
not the concept not the words
but this formless aware presence
such a Wonder which we all know firsthand as our reality in this Moment and every moment
not something in time and space but that within which manifestation appears
that within which time and space appear
our toys
that within which all appearances appear does not appear
and yet being, reality is undeniable
what could deny being?
sometimes the thought may appear what will happen to me once I die
but do you die?
what is it to die
when the mind is 15:00 still and quiet
does death mean anything?
isn’t it via the activity of thinking that you find such a thing as death
death of what?
death of something
something I was
what is a thing outside of the concepts in the Stillness and quietness of the mind
what is the thing?
what is this and not this
this and that names and labels
the realm of mind and variety
but this awareness the reality which perceives right now which is
is that in the realm of thought in the realm of mind
or does thought appear within awareness out of awareness
and when you go in the realm of mind you can ask the question
does that which is unborn ever die
and you can contemplate what is it in my experience in this moment which is unborn
which cannot not be
thoughts appear and disappear
waves on the surface of the ocean
mental activity neurons firing
triggering various physiological activities interacting with the cosmos
20:06 none of which has anything to do with your true nature
the nature of the body is what it is the nature of the butterfly the nature of the wind the sunshine
it is what it is
the dance the movement the flow
the light shimmers on the surface of the lake wavelets
shimmering the surface of the Moon wavelets
what does it have to do with you this self-knowing aware presence
so you you can go to your fear of death
explore the narrative
the me narrative
what is going to happen to me
an assumed me
notice how precious this me is
sometimes in a very subtle way there I am me
whatever that me means
some sort of weird comforting sense in being a limited me
how odd that we find comfort in being me, a limited personal personal self
and how much we worry spin defend and protect this illusion
somehow it loves that feeling of being somebody
that’s what we do we don’t need to but that’s what we do
identify with the story of the elaborative 24:58 me narrative
we complain and we love our complaining
as we complain about our complaining we maintain an interest in complaining
whining
sometimes we are proud in this falsehood
the false pride because it pertains to an illusion
you can trust your Insight that you are not in time and space
you are the freedom love and beauty and the joy
freedom that which is neither born nor dies
you don’t need to identify in any way
not with a body mind we don’t need to.
