Youtube recording: 02/09/2025
Meditation: MP3 Audio file
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Hello, everyone.

So welcome.

So we welcome,
this fresh moment
without history.

Openly;
because this openness is freedom.

The freedom of being.
The freedom of not-knowing.

Not-knowing is very rich
because it’s a complete availability,
untainted.
There is an innocence in not-knowing;
a receptivity.

So can we meet
whatever appears on the screen
without the past?

Without knowing what we are,
what it is that is on the screen.

To be this silent witness,
without any preference,
without guiding the show.

Noticing,
maybe the tendency to seek something.

Habitual tendency
to get somewhere
to reach some imaginary goal.

The light of awareness is always on.

Images and thoughts appear.

They are ungraspable.
When we reach for a thought,
it’s nothing to reach for.

And there is no need
to reach for anything,
to grasp onto anything.
What for?
It’s all imaginary.

Sometimes we feel that
we must get something
or get somewhere
to be safe,
to be fulfilled.

To be safe and fulfilled as what?

What is it that’s seeking fulfillment or safety?

Because whatever you reach
can only be as real
as that which is reaching.

But if that which is seeking,
that which is experiencing
the sense of lack
is a figment of your imagination,
then whatever that figment
of your imagination reaches
is also imaginary.

Imaginary goodies
for an imaginary goodies lover.

Yet there is a fulfillment in understanding.
The understanding about totality,
about your totality,
about wholeness,
about reality.

This understanding about one reality
is fulfilling in the sense that
it removes the belief
in a separate imaginary character.

It does not deliver any special new experience,
removes the illusion.

The illusion that I
am mortal form, mortal entity;
born destined to die,
subject to conditions.

But when you turn your attention
towards the source,
when consciousness
turns its attention
to the source of attention.

We discover that we’ve never left home.

And that home is
beyond the mind,
beyond conception and
beyond perception.

And that understanding
is not a new belief.
It is the dropping of belief,
the dissolution,
the melting of
beliefs about reality.

And what is this reality in this moment?

Is it out there somewhere?
A certain distance from you?
How far apart are you from reality,
from being?

How far are you from this effortless,
formless awareness?
Which you do not need to conceptualize.

Whenever you
conceptualize consciousness,
this concept is perceived.
And that which is perceived
in a glimpse is no longer there.

But the perceiving aspect,
is formless awareness.

Wherever you turn, there it is.

You cannot move away from yourself
and step out of yourself.
It’s not possible.

You are that,
and that is not a concept which you perceive
or a concept which you conceive.
In this moment, take a look.

Consciousness being conscious of itself.
I am conscious.
I am aware.
And I’m conscious that I’m conscious.
I am aware that I’m aware.
It’s right there.

Clear, obvious.

There is no personal self anywhere
that is aware or conscious.
That is simply a belief
that we hold on to.
Because, experientially,
it is always this formless awareness,
which is aware.

There is no need to
superimpose a body-mind
onto the formless.
There’s no need to
superimpose
a form,
a story,
a narrative
upon that, which is so obviously formless and real.

So if right now you drop
all your beliefs and your stories
and your narratives,
all your past knowledge,
all of it,
do you disappear?

If you wipe the mirror clean
from all the images,
does the mirror disappear?

If you melt
your gold bracelet,
your gold ring,
your gold necklace,
does the gold disappear?

When the wind quiets down
and the riplets
on the surface of the pond
dissolve in the pond,
return to the pond,
does the pond disappear?

Why do we hold on
to the personal narrative when
the freedom,
the joy,
the peace,
the bliss
of consciousness is our true self.

It’s a good question.

How many times
we want to go around the block?
Every time with a different narrative.

So if you have any questions,
make sure to unmute yourself.
Any questions?

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