okay
welcome everyone
lovely to see you
and to meet you
hello
richard holly hello sarah
holger and john
just a couple of words
because of newcomers
the first part of this meeting
will be a guided meditation and
then you’re welcome to post
whatever questions you have
anything that you’d like to discuss
and also the meeting is recorded and holger
will be posting it on youtube following a day or so
so just sit comfortably and
just for this meeting
you can let everything be as it is
no need
to solve any problems
that you may need to solve
you can solve them later on
deal with issues
but for now
welcome yourself
welcome your experience
freshly
whatever thoughts may appear
bodily sensations
to simply remain as you are
as presence
not
trying to improve
or change
your experience
so it’s a sort of relaxation
is sinking
sinking into into being
no effort is
required or needed to
simply be
awareness is
effortless
there is a peace and equanimity
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as awareness
there is a freshness
an immediacy
to this experience
it’s not a story that’s unfolding in time
it is pure presence
and you are this presence
an image may appear
a thought
a sensation may appear
a bodily sensation
you are the aware presence which perceives
the thought that you perceive
or the sensation that you perceive may
have a certain quality
a certain duration
a certain coloring
but the awareness
the reality which perceives
has no shape no size
and no coloring
which we refer to as i
that which is perceived
via the instrument of the body mind
is limited
defined by the
qualities of the body-mind
but that which you are
that which is
that which perceives
is beyond the body-mind instrument
which i refer to as consciousness awareness
like the wide open sky
the wide open sky
may appear blue
from the perspective of the
human visual cortex
but in fact the infinite sky has no color
from a different instrument
like a
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gamma ray instrument or x-ray instrument
perception of the wide open sky
is not blue it’s a bunch of x-rays
and gamma rays
but the wide open sky is not made out of
gamma rays or x-rays
similarly we perceive the world
the body and the mind
via the world body mind instrument
via the body-mind instrument
which defines
that which is perceived
we perceive colors
but the color blind visual cortex
does not perceive color
or perceives colors differently
we perceive thoughts which are firing of neurons
within the brain
interacting with a nervous system
that’s flowing through the body
and interacting with the world
temperatures surrounding the body
the events surrounding the body
and very specific perceptions
that are specific to this particular moment
a thought that arises in this moment
is a the dance of the current
the current dance
of the world and the body and the mind
in this moment
which is constantly changing
but that which does not change
in your experiences
awareness
whichever thought you’re perceiving
irrespective of the thought
that is perceived
awareness
remains transparent
colorless
shapeless
formless
that which does not change in our experience
is awareness i awareness
which we refer to as reality
that which perceives
this reality is not female or male
is not a woman a man a son a daughter
that which is perceived may be male female
tall short green yellow red
but that which perceives is neither blue nor red
neither tall nor short
neither male nor female
it’s a important understanding
about yourself your true self
but when you believe yourself to be
a woman a man a person
you have identified yourself
with a machine with a mechanism
with an instrument
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you’ve identified yourself
with a body-mind instrument
and this identification limits your horizon
and effects your sense of freedom
love and beauty
confines you to the impression of mortality
you’re no longer
in this borderless awareness
rather you have somehow adopted the belief
that you’re born and you’re bound to die
via your identification with the body
none of which is true
although the body is mortal you are not.