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Sentience and consciousness.
Because in resting as being there is freedom. Freedom from mental activity, freedom from this constant attempt to define oneself, to protect oneself, to justify. So we can invite this tendency, this habitual muscle to relax. Because all is well in presence. Presence is not something that we do. It is what it is. It…
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Freedom from personal worry and concern
So we say yes to this invitation. And we relax in this invitation. We invite every sensation to relax in presence, to be free. Every aspect of our experience is invited to this freedom. Notice the sensations within your body, appearing effortlessly in awareness, in consciousness; this intimacy, this sweet intimacy.
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The universe does not stand apart from you. Feel it. Be it.
So simply rest, relax, allow, be. Relaxing the habitual tendency to try to figure things out. And the habitual tendency to do something. So for the duration of this meeting, do nothing. Allow your attention. to rest in its source. Without wandering in the past or the future. So that all activities are suspended in…
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What is Ananda?
As you sink in deeper and deeper into Presence, which is impersonal, which is effortless, this deep, profound relaxation and resting as being. It is Ananda, the bliss of being. In this moment of peace, of being, of Ananda, there is no separate self. There is no separate entity. There are no personal issues.
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Meditative contemplation with the Costa Rican Sangha
And you suffer because you imagine yourself to be a limited form. Because you identify yourself with something which is impermanent. You believe yourself to be a person, to be a biocomputer. You believe yourself to be an object in time and space. But you’re not an object. You’re not in time and space. You…







