Meditation: Nothing to Attain... The Simplicity of Being (Magdi, 07-02-2023)

The speaker discusses the concept of self and reality. They emphasize that our true nature is beyond appearances and activities, and that our attention should be directed towards our inner source. They suggest that our reality is non-phenomenal and that what we are looking for is the awareness itself. They also emphasize that there is no separate entity and that attainment is simply an understanding of the non-phenomenal reality of consciousness. The speaker concludes by stating that we are the knowing element and the understanding itself. Welcome. We will be discussing the following topics today. So just for now, you could simply turn your attention to the stillness, to the peace, the ground of being, which is your very self before you start to imagine yourself, your true face before birth, before any appearance. That which you are is not something which appears and disappears. That which you are is not the result of any activity, whether it is activity in the brain or activity in the world, you received that. So you can allow your attention to fall back onto its source rather than reaching out to it towards any object or towards any experience. Allow your attention to fall back without knowing where it is falling back and what it is falling back to. Your reality is your reality. Your reality, the reality of your mind, the reality of your body, the reality of the world, the reality of your experience is non-phenomenal. What you are looking for is that which is looking. There is nothing outside of your very self. There is nothing outside of the reality of consciousness. You know that because you are that. Anything which you attain is not real. It appears and disappears the same way that you attain something supposedly in the same way. Is it? I think we have a question. I think we have a question. Only that which is cannot be attained in reality. What cannot be attained cannot be gained and cannot be lost. It is not something that appears to you because whatever appears to you also disappears in you. It is only that which neither appears nor disappears which is real, which is true, which is absolute. When you investigate the belief that you are somebody gaining something, losing something, somebody existing in time and space, you only find false sensations. You do not find such a person. You only find yourself as this borderless, indisputable, aware presence which has no location. It is nowhere and everywhere which is not a thing. It is nothing and everything. Nothing to attain means there is no separate entity in the cosmos which is lacking. It is nothing. Anything. So like the wide open sky is unaffected by the clouds which arise in space, similarly you, the true you, only you there is, is unaffected by the world's body-mind events which are your own making. It does not matter much what appears to you. The ocean does not give a darn about the waves, the shapes of the waves, the number of waves. It is completely new. The waves are nothing else but the movement of the ocean within itself, playful, creative. Sitting in the front row of the theater, the theater of its own making, creating and perceiving simultaneously. Without anything being at stake for anyone because there is no one, no separate self, no separate one. There is only the one. Attainment is only a word which refers to understanding about truth. The understanding that reality is non-phenomenal and that there is no reality to phenomena outside of the non-phenomenal reality of consciousness. This very simple awareness, this simple mind is God's mind, God's awareness. There is no other awareness, there is no other reality, there is no personal creator. It is all universal manifestation. The universe within itself, to itself manifesting university. And you are this knowing element. You are the understanding. You are the understanding.