Meditation November 9, 2014
Nothing divides the indivisible. The indivisible is the reality, the divided is the imagined. Living in division, is living in imagination Mistaking the imaginary to be real. These mind impressions of separation and division are what we refer to as suffering and ignorance. What you truly are is indivisible. Unborn. You repeat to yourself: I am this person, I am this person And, you believe it. As soon as you do, you are in the misery. You are in the mind with all the problems of this person. The main problem is the imagined separation, the imagined me. From that, there are all sorts of concerns about your future happiness The future happiness of this person. It is always in the future And there are all sorts of conditions, All sorts of tasks that this person needs to accomplish In order to be happy… tomorrow. You have to do all sorts of things in order to be happy tomorrow But We know this doesn’t work. It haunts us in our dreams It upsets us in our waking state. We yearn for the peace and happiness Which is what we are. We have forgotten. But when we imagine that we are this mortal body mind we have separated ourselves from wholeness We have separated ourselves from the seamless from the infinite. And we feel finite We yearn to be reconnected We yearn for the wholeness that we know we are. But that we forgot we are. So, we have a genuine intention. to realize our true nature to realize the happiness, the love, the beauty Causeless peace But we look out through the senses We look out. Through the mind The mind that divides. That labels. That compares and measures. That prefers That argues That perceives an external world That perceives a personal body That perceives itself as the reality We look out onto the world and we notice happiness… imagined out there… In a glitter We actually perceive beauty… A couple in love We can sense the beauty We recognize the beauty So we want that same experience we wish we had that same relationship That we mistake to be the source of love and happiness We look out onto the world and we perceive comfort in the world Out there We perceive ease and well being in the world. in a home It could be a beautiful vacation home that a friend owns a beautiful home What seems to be an easy job. We recognize ease in the world But we mistake this ease to be in a job. In a home, in a certain acquisition. A certain situation. So we pursue that The mind perceives objects out there The mind pursues objects. Desire. Desire rooted in the imagined person Desire is very sneaky. It can even dress up in holy cloak. It is still a personal desire. What accompanies it is the sense of lack insufficiency the sense of incompleteness right now With a promise of future happiness In wealth, in relationship in the health of the body. Future promises that veil the current sense of lack and insufficiency. But not really. We hope the remedy is going to come to us tomorrow Through the mind We follow the mind We obey and listen to the mind And the feelings that accompany We use them as our guide and so we chase and chase This entire affair is based on the belief that I am a person The forgetfulness that you are the wholeness of presence Seamless consciouneess THAT that conceives, creates and perceives THAT that is freedom itself YOU the true undivided Self Nothing divides the indivisible. Nothing divides consciousness Consciousness is the reality of your experience Consciousness is the reality of this. of every appearance of everything There is only One reality. And this reality is not personal The reality of consciousness It is not personal What you truly are is not personal Not limited not bound not contained not divided You are not personal The personal is an image on the undivided screen of consciousness You mistake yourself for that image while you are the screen And thus you feel divided Incomplete Unhappy This imagined identification as a body mind creates unhappiness and a contraction in the body The me feeling at the body level Located in the face The chest The neck The belly It is a virus in the open space at the feeling level It is there A faint malaise It is there in our waking state, in our night sleep Night dream state A slight annoyance A sense of incompleteness And we develop habits to distract us away To make us numb in a way Rather than being fully present to this malaise To this bodily sensation In an open Curious Interested Vulnerable and willing way Rather than being fully exposed and willing to go all the way To get to the bottom of this sense of insufficiency we develop habits to numb to distract us away They could be substance addictions Drinking, eating, traveling, exercising Constantly seeking company Needing to be constantly engaged in the world, workaholic habits Thinking habits, talking habits These habits do not provide the happiness Do not relieve the angst. They require effort and maintenance. So we imagine that we must try harder. Increase the dose. But with this increased involvement In the habits In the cover up … comes an increased unhappiness. An increased sense of self Sense of me More misery Not the thinning out of ignorance Not the relief that we are hoping for . We find our body mind getting more and more rigid Calcified Calcification of the body mind Psychological stuckness The mind divides The mind divides It perceives ghosts Angels and satanic creatures. It is constantly in the seeking and avoiding It is deeply unhappy and does not know otherwise. It is haunted by fears Rather than struggling with the imagined or with the felt We can be still Available In being still, there is availability Openness. A natural willingness Availability is already wellbeing Stillness is wellbeing Stillness is not expecting any results Trusting the stillness Trusting What Is Trusting whatever is unfolding Recognizing that whatever is unfolding is unfolding out of grace. Unfolding out of the eternity and infinity of consciousness In that recognition … is the shift From the mind to the Divine. From the relative to the absolute From the impermanent to the eternal. Trusting that nothing can hurt you Nothing can hurt what you truly are. You as consciousness… nothing can touch you. No mind event can effect you. You are not an object in time and space. You are the peace The source The joy The happiness You are THAT You are the source All the divine qualities emanate from you The habitual mind that is constantly looking for happiness in an object In a form Imagines you to be a mortal body mind Habitually you believe it … because of the feeling state. You feel separate You feel you are in your body You fail to notice it is a bodily sensation You are not that sensation You are the aware presence, But these impressions scare you in your sleep, haunt you in your waking state. Consciousness is not on a time clock You are not this body This body appears to you as a dream impression Like all the dreams, all what appears to you in your night dream This body mind is an apparition It appears to you as a wakeful dream As a waking dream But it is your dream Like the night dream comes and goes The waking dream comes and goes … YOU do not There is no concern for you The real you You as consciousness. You are not augmented or diminished by any dream Nor are you threatened by the night dream It is the same in the waking dream Nothing really touches you It is not different than your night dream You have to be open to this possibility Be willing to listen and let go Relax Release this identification Trust the divine Listen to the message Recognize you are THAT THAT does not appear You are THAT To which perception arises A sensation appears A feeling appears A thought appears You are not anything that appears You are the infinity and eternity of consciousness the reality of consciousness There is no other You can release all the sensations in your chest, in your belly, in your neck in your face, the thoughts, the memories The feelings You can release it all Give it all to the divine The divine is right here right now Infinite presence Borderless presence Belonging to no one Available through and through Release the feeling state At the somatic level Surrender every vibration of your body mind In your legs In your thighs Your neck Your feet Your fingers, your face, your eyes, Allow this vibration to resonate with the divine resonance of God, Let go Do not worry Don’t be concerned All is well