Youtube recording: 06/12/2025
Meditation: MP3 Audio file
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Welcome, everyone.
Lovely to be with you.

So we can start this meeting
with a brief meditation,
and then we can explore whatever
questions you may have.

So we can sit comfortably
and we can either close your eyes
or turn your gaze inward.

And notice your experience,
whatever appears to you
without trying to change anything,
without any commentary,
without judgment.

Without any objective.

So for the duration of this meditation,
we’re not trying to achieve anything.

Simply to rest as presence.
Without any effort
to simply notice
in the silence.
Inviting the mind to rest for now.

Awareness is effortless.
There is nothing we need to do
to hear these words,
to notice the breath.
The heartbeat.
The sound of traffic.

Notice how a thought
may appear within awareness and
dissolve from where it came from.

The bodily sensation appears
in the same space
in awareness.

Somehow it comes to the surface.

There is no personal entity,
no personal self doing anything.

There may be a belief in a personal doer.
Like, there may be a belief
that there are blue aliens
on the distant planet.

Because in our experience,
there is nothing that anybody does
in order to perceive this perception.

And yet it appears
within awareness
and returns to awareness.

Awareness remains undisturbed,
undefined by whatever appears
on the screen.
It’s an aware screen,
a knowing screen.
It knows it is.
I know I am.

Being knows it is.

There is a belief
that awareness,
consciousness
is personal,
that it belongs to the bio computer,
that it belongs to the body-mind.

Could it be that there is no belonging
to that which is not
in the phenomenal realm?

Could it be that there is no ownership
for the reality which perceives
right now, this moment?
Reality is the reality which perceives,
perceives a sound,
perceives a perception,
perceives a thought.

But that which perceives
is not perceivable phenomenally,
like you perceive a mountain
or a bodily sensation.

While a mountain has
a shape,
a form,
a certain size,
consciousness, awareness,
the reality which perceives does not.

Although one could say that
thoughts refer to a particular body-mind entity.
I know my thought.
I do not know your thought.

That which perceives the thought
is not an object.
Awareness, consciousness
does not belong to the mind.
It’s the other way around.

When you ask yourself,
what is it that is aware in this moment?

From our conditioning,
the mind would say, I, Magdi,
I, this body-mind,
I, this entity,
I’m aware.
I, a thought
or a bundle of memories
or a bundle of sensation
or a storyline,
a narrative,
is aware.

But is that so?
Take a look.

Does any image that you have of yourself
does any image of yourself is aware,
or does the image appear
within awareness?

Nor is it that is aware
of the image,
of the memory,
of the thought,
of the storyline.

It is not the storyline
which is aware of itself.
Only awareness is aware.

It is not the dog that is aware.

Only awareness is aware.
It is not the male or female
bio computer that is aware.

The mind’s activity,
thoughts,
sensation,
perceptions,
a field of activity,
movement,
wavelets on the surface of the pond.

Body-minds.
A whirlpool within the vastness,
a certain dance
within the infinite field of being.

Your thoughts,
the thoughts that appear
within awareness
are a musical note
in the vast symphony of consciousness
manifesting in infinite ways.

The shape of your body
and sensations within your body-mind
are teeny ripples,
droplets.
They call your attention to the source.
What is it?

What is the reality
of that which I perceive?

What is the reality
which perceives?
Is it
a tree reality,
a dog reality,
a wind reality,
a brain reality,
or is it pure reality?

Formless,
shapeless,
dimensionless,
borderless,
not subject to whimsical limitations
imposed or suggested by the mind,
thought.

Believing the narratives of the mind
is similar to buying
a defective vacuum cleaner
from a charlatan salesman.
How many do you have in your closet?

Come on.
Spit it out.

That within you,
which is aware,
is awareness.

There is no need
to call it by any name
because it has no name.

And yet one could say
it goes by all names.

The root cause
of our unhappiness
is mistaken the universality
of consciousness
with the personal aspect
of the body-mind.

Confusing reality with mind.
And the core confusion is
the belief that I exist
in time and space,
that I am born and that I will die.

That is the veiling of our freedom
and our happiness,
and this veiling is
the game of consciousness.

Choosing to identify itself
in a phenomenal manner
in order to experience
the anguish and desire
to free itself from that imposition.

And right now,
right here,
You are…
we are speaking about
the return home ticket.

This entire human dream
is about the return home,
the home which we are,
which we have never left,
that which is and cannot not be.

So allow yourself to be carried
by the current of love
and understanding.

Do not be so concerned
about the travails of the mind
and the complexity of the mind.
Let it be.

When you don’t touch it,
it aligns itself with a universal harmony.
You are that.

So if you have any questions,
anything you would like to explore,
you can raise your hand
by using the react button
in the bottom of the screen.
Or just just raise your hand.

So any questions?

And if you care to, you could turn
your videos on
because I always enjoy
seeing your sweet faces.