Youtube recording: 12/22/2024
Meditation: MP3 Audio file
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Dear Jeff, please let me know if this works better (on your Android phone):

Welcome, everyone.
Lovely to see you.

So a reminder,
that this meeting will start
with a 15, 20 minute guided meditation,
and then we can explore
whatever questions you may have.

So sit comfortably and,
welcome,
welcome your experience
just as it appears to you.
Complete relaxation.
Nothing that you need to do.

No objective.
No effort.

Notice without any judgment
whatever thoughts appear to you,
whatever perceptions appear to you.

Everything which appears to you,
appears to you effortlessly.

Nothing that you need to do.

Every moment appears to you
in its totality.
Meaning,
there is nothing missing,
nothing lacking.

Every perception,
every sensation
appears in the spaciousness
of knowingness,
of awareness.

Which is
untouched,
untainted,
unstained
by whatever appears.

And this knowingness,
this awareness,
is your very being.

I am
and
I am aware
are sufficient.

There is no need to add
any narrative
to being awareness.

Like the wide open sky.
This knowingness,
this aware presence
is borderless.

Notice,
your borderlessness,
your formlessness.

The peace.

Because there is no opposition.
The opposing mind is quiet.

It is rendered quiet
by the understanding
that I am
this formless,
invisible to the senses,
edgeless,
borderless
awareness.

Unaffected by the mind.

Unaffected by thinking,
remembering…
Unaffected by whatever sensations
arise within the body mind.

The mind is liberated
from its habit
of maintaining
the me-narrative,
the me-story,
maintaining the belief that I am
a mortal body-mind entity.

The body-mind is like
images on the screen or
clouds in the wide open sky.

Which appear,
taking on
a variety of forms,
a variety of shapes.

Keep changing and morphing.

The wide open sky is undisturbed.

The understanding that
I am not that which appears
on the screen of awareness. \

I am not defined
by thoughts and
perceptions and
sensations.

The understanding that
this formless awareness is impersonal,
because there is no person
anywhere outside of
the belief in one.

Take a look.

Can you find any person
outside of
memories and
thoughts and
sensations?

Why define yourself using
thoughts and
memories and
perceptions?

Does the ocean define itself
by the shape and the size of the waves?

The understanding
that this formless awareness is
REAL.

It’s not a passing thought
or a passing dream.
It is that within which all dreams pass,
but which does not pass.

The understanding
about one reality.

Formless,
non-phenomenal.

Because all phenomena
exist in time and space
with a beginning and ending.

How could there be
two formless realities?

The understanding that
Reality is not in time.

And it is you!

Not you referring to
what you imagine yourself to be,
what you remember yourself to be,
what you would like yourself to be,
what you believe yourself to be.

No!
You,
the reality of knowingness,
the reality of being.

Not you,
the narrative.

Narrative belongs to the body.
The body which is born in
such and such a location,
such a such point in time,
within a tribe,
with a history.

Such narratives
belong to the body-mind,
but they do not belong to you.

You are narrative free.

You are the
narrator,
creator and the
perceiver, the
editor in chief.

The only game in town.

Everything that you think about yourself is false.
Everything that you think about your body
maybe
may apply,
may have some validity.

But thought cannot
comprehend a thinker.
It is the thinker which
comprehends thought.

The I does not perceive itself.

The liberating understanding
is composed of two dimensions:

First is I am Consciousness
and not that which appears.
I Am Presence,
Awareness,
and not the images on the screen.

And this I,
there’s only one I.
This I is universal.

I am thou and thou are I.

There’s only one reality.
Which cannot be divided.

The body mind and all
what is happening in your life
appears to you
is not happening to you.
It is happening
on the screen of awareness.
And this happening is a non-happening.

It is the illusion of happening,
like the magician
pulling rabbits out of the hat,
or cutting the lady in two with a saw.

It’s an illusion.
Just take a look at your night dreams.

Notice all the events that are happening,
seemingly,
because in fact nothing is happening.
All the travels and all the events
of your night dream
reveal themselves
to be nothing at all
upon your waking up.

Do not give power to the waking state.
It is nothing more than a dream state.
Within this dream state,
you are contemplating yourself.
Consciousness is contemplating itself.

So you can wake up in the dream
and realize that the dream is appearing in you,
and that you have never actually been
an entity in the dream.

Liberation awaits you.

Hold on to no-thing,
As best you can.

Gently,
be kind
to yourself and others.

So, if you have any questions,
you’re welcome to first unmute yourself
and you can raise your hand.
As well, you have the option
at the bottom of the screen
to the React icon;
it allows you to also raise your hand.

So any questions?

You’re welcome to turn on your video
if you care to,
this way I can see you,
if you feel like it.