Meditation: Resting as awareness (Magdi 06-01-2023)

The speaker emphasizes that our attention does not come from the past or memory, but rather from the present moment. They encourage us to explore the substance of this moment, which is not the fleeting appearances or thoughts, but the unchanging and changeless essence of our experience. They highlight that our true reality is the formless awareness that is always present, beyond time and not contained in a physical form. They suggest recognizing ourselves as this formless presence and resting in it, rather than identifying with the transient aspects of our identity. They assert that the peace and true nature we seek is already within us, and we don't need to imagine ourselves as a person or body to experience it. But it can't, no. So we can turn our attention towards where the attention comes from. It does not come from the past. It does not come from memory. It is always a fresh moment. What is the substance of this moment? What is the substance of this moment? What is the substance of this moment? It is not that which appears and disappears. It is not the wavelets at the surface of the pond. What is your very essence in this moment? Which is not a moment in time. Because time stops in this question. What is your reality? Not the name or age of your body. Not a stream of thoughts which appears like the wind. Appears. What is it that is unchanging and changeless in your experience? You can rest as this not knowing. Allowing the mind to sink into this question that has no bottom. You know you are, you know there is something rather than nothing. You know that you are aware that there is awareness. And that this awareness does not come and go. Has no color or shape or size or beginning or ending. That this awareness, the reality which hears these words right now has no on and off switch. That it is not contained in a container. You know, you are aware that everything which appears with an awareness is intimate with awareness. It cannot be without awareness. The reality of your thoughts. The reality of your memories. The reality of your sensations. Is this formless awareness. This formless presence. So recognize yourself as this formless invisible presence. Which knows itself. And which perceives and understands. There is no personal effort involved. There is no person outside of your imagination. Outside of the imagination of consciousness. There is no reality to a person. Who does effort or does more effort or less effort. There is a knowingness which does not belong to the mind. The absolute certainty of being. The absolute certainty of awareness. Everything else contains a grain of doubt. Resting as awareness means not resting as anything else. Not resting as a woman, as a man, as a person. As somebody. An imaginary somebody. With a beginning and an ending. Both of which are imaginary. Because that which hears these words does not know any beginning or any ending. It is beyond time. That which is, is absolute. You, this formless consciousness. Borderless. Non-local. Impersonal. Are absolute. So the peace that you seek is already that which you are. The reality with true self, with true nature is already peace itself. You don't need to imagine yourself to be a person, a woman, a mother, a daughter, a father, a son. That's the body. The body can be male or female. You don't need to refer to yourself the reality of being as a body, as a person, as somebody. www.mooji.org www.mooji.org Whenever you are not referring to yourself as somebody existing in time and space, that is meditation. That is truth. That is love. That is peace. That is freedom.