Meditation – Where is my freedom if I cannot choose my thoughts?
12/11/2022
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So if we can turn our attention inward the inner peace
the Stillness
the presence divine presence
welcome your experience just as it appears to you
In This Moment contemplate that I refers to this effortless awareness and not to somebody
not to the body mind
the body mind has a name but you have no name
meaning you consciousness have no name
perceptions appear to you instant by instant
simultaneously appearing and dissolving and disappearing
but nothing happens to you you being this aware presence
so you don’t need to imagine yourself to be somebody to be a man or a woman or somebody
in order to hear these words nothing is needed nothing is required
5:34 so you can rest
we rest as being as presence
you don’t need memory you don’t need to remember anything
you don’t need to do anything
so simply rest As You Are
just for the duration of this meeting you can let go of trying to achieve anything trying to fix anything
make no distinctions whatsoever
in particular vis-a-vis I do not make any distinctions between I and not I
explore or be open to the possibility that everything is I
that awareness does not exclude anything
everything is equal in love everything is equal in truth in reality
although distinctions apply to the mind
appropriately so there are no distinctions that apply to reality there are no distinctions that apply to love to truth to consciousness
from the mind’s perspective sometimes I love A and I don’t love B or I love B and I don’t love A but from the perspective of reality from the perspective of Consciousness All Is Love All Is Love all is truth 9:54
So we can recognize in this moment our non-dual reality the reality of consciousness which has no borders
in Consciousness there isn’t my Consciousness and your consciousness my reality and your reality no
it is one one reality
So this meeting is titled “what is freedom if I do not choose my thoughts”
that thoughts appear to us like the weather appears to us
we don’t have files and folders to which we go in order to pick and choose the current thought
that is not our experience we perceive a thought it appears to us
there is not a personal chooser
which is choosing thought A and rejecting thought B
So then one may wonder where is my freedom what is my freedom after all we all know there is a reality of to Freedom it’s not just a concept we know it deeply within us in our heart
in order to come to an understanding about your freedom your true Freedom your real freedom you need to come to clarity about what I means
what I refers to
obviously there is limited freedom to the body
body-minds are limited they have a limited freedom a limited capacity a limited potential
but when we say I are we referring to the body
are we referring to a limited entity
or are we referring to the reality which in this moment perceives this perception
whatever that is something real is there is a reality that perceives even if this is a dream
there is a reality which perceives
I have to be clear that there’s only one I which is the reality which perceives which we refer to as Consciousness or presence or reality or being
and as being we are all the same we are all one this is one aware presence
and the freedom we are speaking about is the freedom of consciousness 15:10
because Consciousness is not phenomenal it is not made out of Flesh and Bones or molecules atoms it’s not made out of sticks and stones
Consciousness is what we refer to as I each one of us refer to our self as I
not I this female form or male form or this mother or father daughter son cousin
no I!
the formless Invisible Presence that is alive and aware knows that it is
I know I am I know I am I I know I am aware not I know I am a female awareness or a male awareness that’s a fallacy
this I is one I one reality
you have to be clear about the reality of Consciousness and that this reality is nothing else but this very self I
this very I awareness this normal mundane awareness is God’s awareness
and that’s where God’s Freedom your freedom the freedom of awareness the freedom of Consciousness is
it is not in your personhood it’s not in your body it’s not in your mind there’s a limited Freedom there
so you need to come to understanding about your true freedom so that you cease to suffer from the sense of limitation which plagues us all
it’s time to see through this false belief of limitation
in the sense of conditional freedom I will be free when and if sometimes in the future to see through this fallacy
to come to understanding about Consciousness and the freedom and the joy and the happiness and the love that it is that I am
and the path to this understanding is to investigate investigate your belief that you meaning consciousness is limited then depends on the body mind
investigate this evidence is there any evidence that you are born not that the body is born not that thought arises but that you that Consciousness is born and that conscious that Consciousness exists in time and space this is your investigation
it’s via your investigation that you will come to your understanding not my understanding your own understanding your own certainty so that this certainty will be used the clarity will be used
what evidence is there that Consciousness will die one day that it’s limited that it’s personal that it resides inside my body or inside my brain or two inches behind my eyes or
what is that evidence that we have outside the belief that you are limited and personal meaning always you means consciousness
not the body of course we all know the body is limited that’s not a big deal 20:00 you Consciousness I consciousness
so this inquiry is yours to conduct to seek assistance in the process as needed
in order to come to your certainty to your clarity
that there is no personal freedom
but that your freedom is real it is God’s Freedom it is the freedom of Consciousness the freedom which is your reality
you need to visit that over and over until you come to clarity
