Youtube recording: 04/27/2025
Meditation: MP3 Audio file
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Dear Jeff, please let me know if this works better (on your Android phone):
Hello, everyone.
Lovely to see you.
So if we can
welcome our experience
without knowing it.
An open,
welcoming,
which is
already what we are.
We are this openness,
this borderless awareness.
There is nothing
that you need to do
in order to be aware.
It is more of a non-doing.
Effortless being.
In not knowing,
there are
infinite possibilities,
infinite potential.
So,
notice the spaciousness
which is silent
and quiet
and still,
within which
you are hearing these words.
Hearing,
perceiving arises
within that profound silence.
Within this silence
and as this silence,
there are no problems.
The mind is still.
It’s in the vastness
of this silence
that manifestation appears.
Like a ripple
on the surface of the pond
arises out of the pond.
Like a thought
which appears to you,
arises out of the stillness.
Out of the infinite
creativity of reality.
There is no personal self
doing anything.
No personal doer.
It’s a unific field,
a unified field of
being awareness,
amness
and knowingness,
which is impersonal.
So you remain still.
And within that stillness,
all is well.
There is a sort of surrender
to the stillness.
It draws you
to itself.
It’s a certain sweetness
and peace
which has no cause.
And at the feeling level,
there is this deep relaxation,
this letting go.
There is a certain resonance
to the complete letting go.
It feels like home.
No resistance.
No stories.
Just this moment in its totality,
in its completeness.
Nothing lacking
in the nowness
which is not in time.
The entire
world,
body,
mind – the realm of manifestation
becomes transparent,
absence of concerns.
So welcome yourself
as this borderless
peace.
Let yourself soak in it.
It is not a fabrication of the mind.
The mind meaning
mainly thoughts
appear
within this vastness
and are perceived
by this vastness
which is knowing,
which is perceiving.
When you go to the past,
you are going to an imaginary
experience
because you never truly leave
presence,
how could you?
How could you leave your very essence?
The past is just thought
appearing in presence.
The reality of which
is this transparent awareness.
The one and only reality.
Sometimes thought appears
telling us
that we exist
in the dream
as a personal character.
It tries to convince you
that you are
a body-mind entity,
that something is happening to you.
But the thought
that appears to you,
the sensations that appear to you
are perceived by you.
They do not perceive
that which perceives them.
They are
known by you,
this effortless,
transparent awareness.
But they are not knowing.
They are like
a flock of birds
flying by.
They do not know anything
about that which perceives them,
about the perceiving aspect,
which is you,
I
perceive.
And as a result,
whenever you believe
that thought or sensations
which you perceive
define you,
it is a choice you are making.
You are choosing
to believe that mind,
meaning thoughts and sensations,
know you
and have some sort of power
over you.
But you are the knowing aspect.
Not you,
the body that you perceive,
but the only you there is.
What is it?
You must know
because you are that.
Who else would know?
Are you an object,
a form that appears.
And to whom does it appear?
To what does it appear?
Are you an appearance?
Is your true Self
in the absence of
relying on the past,
relying on the hearsay,
stories,
which belong to the past,
in the absence of the illusion of time.
What is it that you truly are?
So if you have any questions,
anything that you would like to explore,
please make sure to unmute yourself
and you are welcome to turn on your videos;
I’d like to see you.
And, you know,
there is a an icon at the bottom of the screen
called react.
You can also raise your hand there.
So any questions?