Hello, everyone.
Welcome.

So lovely to be,
and to recognize,
to recognize myself.

I recognize myself
as this borderless presence.

This recognition is effortless.

We are always invited
to this recognition.

In this recognition
there is peace,
because there is no separation.
There is no separate self.
Everything is myself.
There is no opposition.

Because any opposition
would mean opposing myself.
What for?

So in this moment,
we don’t need the past.
We don’t need our stories
or our history.

We don’t need to
define ourself
via the body mind.

So we can meet freshly,
to be this innocent presence
which is not in time,
which does not know personal problems.

Because personal problems
belong to me
and this me is in the past.
It’s an imaginary person,
a storyline,
which is made out of memories
and beliefs.

But in presence there is freedom,
there is openness,
there is innocence
and availability
without any fear,
without any personal self,
without any personal concerns.

So there is no need to carry on
dead corpses, old stories.
There’s no need to repeat
the past over and over,
veiling this borderless presence.

So for now we experience ourself
as this borderless awareness,
not as a father, a mother,
a son, or a daughter.
Can we do that?
Can we let go just for now,
of our history,
of our story,
of our identity,
which belong to the body mind.

But we don’t need to carry on.
We don’t need that in this moment.

In the absence of the past and the future,
in the absence of the old mind,
repetitive mind,
there is presence.

The source,
formless awareness.
That which you are.

And this formless awareness
does not know unhappiness.

It does not know the sense of lack.
It does not know getting hurt.
It does not know fear, or envy.
It does not know greed.
It does not know being unloved or abandoned.

All of that belongs to the past.
That which you refer to as the mind,
the conditioned aspect.

So you can come to your freedom.
Not your freedom as a person,
but the recognition of your true self as
this freedom,
this formless reality.

The only reality there is.
And in knowing yourself as this reality,
there is no sorrow,
there is no entity,
no personal entity.

So when you investigate
the root cause of sorrow,
you find an illusory personal self,
to which you give importance,
believing in a separate personal consciousness
is separation, the sense of isolation.

Separation from love,
separation from peace,
which is causeless.

Separation from the wholeness,
from the plenitude,
separation from health and wealth,
separation from being.

But there is no power to any belief
outside the power you give it
via your reckless habit
of going back over and over
to the me narrative,
seemingly entertaining yourself
with the me narrative.

Me and him,
me and her,
us and them.

What happened to me?
What did they do to me?
Why is this happening to me?

The more you hold on
to this me narrative,
the deeper your angst.

But you are not limited
by that which you perceive.
You are not defined
by the world body mind
that you perceive.

Awareness,
consciousness
is not tainted or stained by its creation.

The screen is not affected
by the images which appear within it.
But habitually,
we keep running and rerunning
the old narratives.

Your freedom
is available to you
in letting go of these patterns,
because you are capable
of turning your attention to presence.

The inner stillness,
the silence,
that which is unmoved,
which is the awareness that you are.
Rather than continuing to repeat the old.

Sorrow does not belong to you.
It belongs to the illusory self.

So you’re invited
to make this choice,
the choice of recognizing yourself
as this formless aware presence,
or identify yourself
with the body mind.

One choice reveals your freedom,
and the other the illusion of separation.

So, if you have any questions,
anything that you would like to explore,
please make sure to unmute yourself.

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