Welcome, everyone.
So lovely to be with you.

What a magical thing to be.
To perceive the body breathing
perceiving sounds
sensations within the body—this magical awareness
invisible to the senses

And yet, without awareness
What would this be?

To awaken to this reality
Awakening to the invisible reality
A shift from the outward to the stillness
to this magical source
where the mind stops.

Where your entire history comes to an end.

You’re complete absence
and yet full presence
Not as somebody
But as this mystery
which is aware.

An aware mystery beyond the mind
Beyond opposites
where only God is

appearing in its infinite forms
The sound of the rain
sensations in the face
Sunrise and sunset

Where there is nothing
Nothing to hold on to
where you are face to face
with your complete absence

No one is there to hold onto anything

So, there is no intention
No intention to get or gain anything
but to die to everything
to die to this moment

In this moment
as nothing and no one

Your personal stories are an echo
A whisper A breeze
landing nowhere
Leading nowhere
Coming from nowhere

It matters not.

What are you here to comprehend?
How will you comprehend?
With what?
Who will comprehend and what for?

Where are you coming from and going to?

But to surrender all the accumulated baggage
stories, beliefs, and opinions
To let it all be

Reflections on the surface of a pond.

The Sufis say, “Wherever my eyes fall is the face of God. My eyes are God’s eyes. All eyes, one eye. God’s eye.”

We seek the end of suffering
but we don’t seek our end.

We want to continue.
We want to be somebody without suffering
A good, happy person.

You need to awaken to this illusion
or else it continues to pull you by the nose.

You have to be willing to give up everything.

You cannot give up that which is real
It is ungiveable.

You have to be willing to give up everything

And to meet
To meet everything with not-knowing
so that there is no distance
between you and that which you meet

An open field
an open space

To be available to all of it.
Nothing hidden.
Bringing it all forward
Complete honesty
meeting oneself completely
The good, the bad
What you like
What you don’t like
What you’re hiding

to bring it all forward
to yourself,
to see it.
And in this seeing, there is honesty

To see where we are hiding
Where we are grasping,
Where we’re confused.
To bring it all forth

Not seeking a resolution
Seeking nothing

No seeking
just being completely surrendered to God
to the unknown
allowing the revelation to reveal itself.

Not to you. Nothing for you.
It reveals itself to itself, not to you.

You are the sacrificial lamb.
Once you go down that path, you can’t save yourself
because anything that you save is temporary.

All things are temporary
no matter how precious
because they are something.

Only that which is not a thing is not temporary.
It’s beyond saving or not saving

So, there’s no need to occupy yourself with trivialities.

Empty-handed
But the heart is full.

Follow the mystery
God’s love.
You cannot deny love or move away from it.
You cannot divide and separate anything.

Notice the breath,
The depth
This still, silent movement

It goes unnoticed.
Let it all go.

Allow yourself not to know.
To not know.

It’s as if you’re suspended in space.
It may be uncomfortable
But don’t move away.

Where would you go?

So, if you have any questions, anything that you would like to explore, to share, please let’s go ahead.

Any questions?

Hi, Magdi.

Hello, Philomene.

The words “let’s go” seem so simple, but I don’t find it simple.

Well, what you can notice is what you’re holding on to.

And you can go into your mind and notice the thoughts about me.
And you go into your body and notice the places of resistance in your body,
the places of hiding in your body.

So in the noticing, there is a freedom,
so the letting go is a noticing of grasping your resistance, your beliefs, your attachments.
And you shift from the material to the spiritual,
from the form to the formless.

But it’s most difficult with unbearable pain in the body.
So that’s asking so much attention.
I find it very difficult.

Oh, yeah, so you are the attention.
You are the light, the shining light.
With the pain in the body, we don’t struggle.
The light does not struggle.
The light shines, and then the mind takes care of the pain the best way possible.

So you rest in the shining light.
You rest in the attention without a story.
Can you do that?

I try that, but you’re right, there is mostly yet a story.
If there’s pain, “what did I do wrong?”
And so on and so on.

So then you are no longer in the attention.

So the attention is non-physical.
The story is physical.
It’s about a physical me, a physical entity.

Is it a doorway to freedom then?

Yes, yes, yes, it is a doorway to freedom.
The attention, the attention without intention.
It requires courage and trust and fearlessness and willingness,
a readiness. You don’t postpone.

Okay, I will trust.
Yes.

Okay.

With your entire being, completely.
Don’t hold back.

Okay, I try again.
Don’t give power to the mind or to time.

What do you mean by time?

The future.
No future?

Yeah, it’s a fear for the future that I will always have pain.

Yes. The story.

Open your body.
Don’t contract around anything in the body.
Relax your belly.
Be available.

Yeah, that sounds beautiful.

Be available.

Okay.

Hola, Jenny.

Hola, Magdi.

So when we are talking about letting go,
isn’t there someone there letting go?

Is there?

No, I don’t think so.

There is someone whenever there is grasping.

I am just wondering if any little desire to change what is
implies the idea of separation for me.

Yes. Until you realize that you are the creator,
that you are the absolute will,
that you are the divine will.
Until there is that realization,
anything that you try to change arises out of separation.

Well, I don’t understand the difference between wanting to change the health of the body
and a conditioning of the mind.

There is a wanting to change that arises out of God’s whisper,
and there is a wanting to change that arises out of separation.

The wanting to change out of God’s whisper is God’s will.
The one to change out of the me-belief is God’s will
that is being reflected through the sense of separation.
In all cases, it is God’s will.

But in one case, there is a purity.
In the other case, there is ignorance.
It is for you to discern
whether behind your desire to change
there is a seed of fear,
a seed of personal concern about me in the future.

There is a pure concern and there is an impure concern.
There is a concern that arises out of intelligence
that has no fear in it.

The fear—that’s what gives it away.
It just needs to be seen.

So there is an honesty with oneself and an interest in meeting oneself truly,
to seeing through the shadow in the background.
That’s another gateway to freedom—
by detecting the fear, facing it, and going through it.

Like existential fear.
There can be some temporary fear that arises out of a very specific situation,
but it has no lasting sense.
It’s not sustained.
I’m talking about this fear that’s more existential,
fear in the background.

Thank you, Maggie.

Okay, Jenny. Good to see you.

Good to see you.

Any questions?

Thank you all.