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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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but you the reality of being awareness
is this source playing the game of ignorance
and return
to the knowledge you are.