Magdi Badawy greets the audience and announces a brief guided meditation, followed by an opportunity for questions. Attendees are encouraged to sit comfortably and relax, focusing on the present moment. Magdi emphasizes the concept of simply “being,” without exerting effort, and connecting with an unseen, formless aware presence that can hear the spoken words.

Using metaphors such as the open sky and flowing stream, Magdi illustrates that despite the emergence of various thoughts and sensations, a fundamental unity and presence underlie these experiences. He suggests that the division within oneself is illusory, highlighting that the true essence of experience isn’t the content itself (thoughts, sensations), but the awareness that perceives them, akin to the screen of a film.

Magdi draws a contrast between the constructed self and the reality of transparent aware presence. He proposes that the authentic self isn’t a character within the narrative of life but the entity perceiving the narrative. He encourages the acceptance of all experiences and sensations, including challenging moments, comparing them to fleeting rapids in a river—ephemeral and integral parts of the whole.

Addressing concerns about the future, life, and death, Magdi suggests that these thoughts are also components of the broader experience. He urges listeners to embrace these thoughts and sensations, likening them to any other part of the river’s flow, and underscores that they don’t define an individual’s identity. In conclusion, Magdi emphasizes that individuals extend beyond their conceived stories, embodying a formless, aware presence that both perceives and knows.

Welcome everyone.
Lovely to see you.

So we will have a short guided meditation,
followed by whatever questions you may have.

So for now, just sit comfortably, relax your body-mind.
Welcome your experience whichever way it’s appearing to you.
There’s nothing that you need to do.
Simply Be, without knowing, but that is: allow being to be.
No effort is needed.

You are this Invisible, Formless Aware Presence,
which hears these words, magically.

Like the wide open sky.
Thoughts appear, bodily sensations appear.
All is well.

There is nothing you need to do;
in being and as being, which is your experience.

There is no separation.
You do not exist as a separate entity.

There is no division within your being within you.

Like the flow of the stream.
There may be various wavelets, bubbles;
a certain movement within the flow.

But the stream is one, one stream.
Moving in within itself.
Playing.

There is no division within the stream.
Similarly, there is no division within your being.

Everything appears to you.
You being this invisible, wholeness, this invisible totality.

Everything appears within your your globality;
your borderless presence in this moment.
In every moment.

The reality of your experience is not that which appears on the screen.
It is the screen itself,
which is invisible to the mind.

And yet the mind is nothing else but the screen moving within itself.

There are not thoughts without consciousness, awareness.
There are no perceptions or sensations without you, awareness.
Not you, you this imaginary entity.
Not you this imaginary character with a history.

But you this transparent aware presence.
The reality which perceives,
which knows it is.

I know I’m, and I know that I know.
This self knowingness, which is inherent to you,
inherent to consciousness.

The person which you imagine and feel yourself to be,
is simply a movement within awareness,
within consciousness;
images on the screen, a movie on the screen.

You are that which perceives the movie.
You are not somebody in the movie.
You’re not a particular character on the screen.

You are the reality of the character,
and the reality of all characters.

The screen is the reality of the movie.
The stream is the reality of the wavelets.

Although you are this borderless presence,
you imagine yourself to be a separate entity:
a woman, a man, a person.

You experience various thoughts,
some of which may be scaring and trigger
various sensations within the body.

We make perceive some terror at time;
feeling terror.

But this terror is only a section of white water in the river,
as the river flows gently.

Sometimes it comes upon a different terrain:
rocky, descending terrain:
The water rushes and splashes against the rocks
in many different directions, creating some whirl pools,

Those loud sounds,
just an appearance within the river.

Part of the flow.
There is no issue.

The river doesn’t try to get rid of the white water.
It doesn’t argue with the rapids or the waterfalls.

Similarly,
various sensations may arise within you,
due to the beliefs and feeling to be a limited mortal self.

What is going to happen to me, tomorrow?
What is gonna happen to me after the deaths of the body?
The body-mind gets agitated upon hearing these questions.

Body-mind gets fearful as a result of being identified as immortal entity,
somebody who is born and is bound to die.

Can we lovingly gently make room for
such thoughts and body sensations,
knowing that they are part of the river.
A temporary passage way.
That We are the river, and not the rapids.

We are all of it, but we are not any particular wavelet
or any particular part of the river.
We are the entire river.

You are not what you imagine yourself to be.
You are not a storyline in a narrative,
made out of thoughts and images and sensations.

Thoughts, images and sensations appear to you,
out of the mystery.

You are this transparent, formless and borderless aware presence,
which is and knows it is,
which hears these words and knows it is that which perceives,
and not something perceived.

Welcome everyone.
Lovely to see you.

So we will have a short guided meditation,
followed by whatever questions you may have.

So for now, just sit comfortably, relax your body-mind.
Welcome your experience whichever way it’s appearing to you.
There’s nothing that you need to do.
Simply Be, without knowing, but that is: allow being to be.
No effort is needed.

You are this Invisible, Formless Aware Presence,
which hears these words, magically.

Like the wide open sky.
Thoughts appear, bodily sensations appear.
All is well.

There is nothing you need to do;
in being and as being, which is your experience.

There is no separation.
You do not exist as a separate entity.

There is no division within your being within you.

Like the flow of the stream.
There may be various wavelets, bubbles;
a certain movement within the flow.

But the stream is one, one stream.
Moving in within itself.
Playing.

There is no division within the stream.
Similarly, there is no division within your being.

Everything appears to you.
You being this invisible, wholeness, this invisible totality.

Everything appears within your your globality;
your borderless presence in this moment.
In every moment.

The reality of your experience is not that which appears on the screen.
It is the screen itself,
which is invisible to the mind.

And yet the mind is nothing else but the screen moving within itself.

There are not thoughts without consciousness, awareness.
There are no perceptions or sensations without you, awareness.
Not you, you this imaginary entity.
Not you this imaginary character with a history.

But you this transparent aware presence.
The reality which perceives,
which knows it is.

I know I’m, and I know that I know.
This self knowingness, which is inherent to you,
inherent to consciousness.

The person which you imagine and feel yourself to be,
is simply a movement within awareness,
within consciousness;
images on the screen, a movie on the screen.

You are that which perceives the movie.
You are not somebody in the movie.
You’re not a particular character on the screen.

You are the reality of the character,
and the reality of all characters.

The screen is the reality of the movie.
The stream is the reality of the wavelets.

Although you are this borderless presence,
you imagine yourself to be a separate entity:
a woman, a man, a person.

You experience various thoughts,
some of which may be scaring and trigger
various sensations within the body.

We make perceive some terror at time;
feeling terror.

But this terror is only a section of white water in the river,
as the river flows gently.

Sometimes it comes upon a different terrain:
rocky, descending terrain:
The water rushes and splashes against the rocks
in many different directions, creating some whirl pools,

Those loud sounds,
just an appearance within the river.

Part of the flow.
There is no issue.

The river doesn’t try to get rid of the white water.
It doesn’t argue with the rapids or the waterfalls.

Similarly,
various sensations may arise within you,
due to the beliefs and feeling to be a limited mortal self.

What is going to happen to me, tomorrow?
What is gonna happen to me after the deaths of the body?
The body-mind gets agitated upon hearing these questions.

Body-mind gets fearful as a result of being identified as immortal entity,
somebody who is born and is bound to die.

Can we lovingly gently make room for
such thoughts and body sensations,
knowing that they are part of the river.
A temporary passage way.
That We are the river, and not the rapids.

We are all of it, but we are not any particular wavelet
or any particular part of the river.
We are the entire river.

You are not what you imagine yourself to be.
You are not a storyline in a narrative,
made out of thoughts and images and sensations.

Thoughts, images and sensations appear to you,
out of the mystery.

You are this transparent, formless and borderless aware presence,
which is and knows it is,
which hears these words and knows it is that which perceives,
and not something perceived.