Meditation: Dealing with negative feelings (Magdi 09-21-2023)

The speaker encourages embracing the present moment without attachment to the past or personal identity. They emphasize the importance of allowing experiences to unfold without judgment or resistance. Negative emotions and repetitive patterns are seen as irrelevant and can be observed without engaging in them. The speaker suggests being still and silent in the face of negative emotions, understanding that they have no significance and do not affect one's true self or happiness. The idea is to let things be and not try to control or change them. The speaker also mentions that everything is part of a universal process and encourages simply being and accepting whatever arises. So, welcome yourself, welcome presence without the past, without knowing anything about yourself, so that the shield is an open shield, an open space of being. Allow whatever appears to be, without any particular interest. Notice the sensations in the body. There is no personal intention. There is no personal entity who is subjected to anything. No need to form any images or any concepts about your experience. Or about yourself. No need to set this against that. Be like a stream, effortlessly. There is a flow and there is stillness. Which do not oppose each other. There is no opposition. It is only conceptually, at the thinking level, at the mind level, that we set this against that. We have personal preferences. Some of which are innocent. And some of which serve to protect the imaginary meaning, the imaginary entity, which we believe is real and with which we identify. It is an imaginary identification. Because wherever you look, you only find awareness. Nowhere do you find a separate personal entity. What is it that suffers in the absence of a personal identity? In your dream, your night dream. You fall off a bridge. Or you lose your fortune. You experience all sorts of mishaps. None of which is real. Similarly, as consciousness, as being, as reality. Nothing which appears to you has any relevance to you. And yet we experience a personal identity. And we experience negative emotions, worries and concerns that repeat themselves in our life. Like a loop. A repeating pattern of thoughts and sensations. And the repeating arising of negative emotions. Which in time have become a habit. Which gets easily triggered. And the more we engage in justifying ourselves, defending ourselves, blaming the world and blaming others, the deeper the tracks. The negative emotions get deeply rooted in our body, in our sensations. And the more we engage in justifying ourselves, defending ourselves, blaming the world and blaming others, the deeper the tracks. It is not happy. And what is the point of engaging in unhappiness? What for? It does no body any good. Is it possible, when the negative emotions get triggered, to explore being still, being silent, standing at the heart of things, at the core, allowing this internal weather to unfold without doing anything? Because it has nothing to do with our true self. It has nothing to do with happiness. You cannot reason your way out of the negative emotion without the understanding that there is nothing at stake for anyone. And it is a false alarm. We don't need to rush to put out the fire. Let it burn. Let it be. After all, everything is a universal doing. Everything is God's doing. This experience is minuscule, tiny, when it comes to the infinite realm of being. Infinite realm of being. There are no words for it. There are no words for it. The task is simple. Do nothing. Don't be anybody. Allow being to be whatever it is, whatever it wishes to be. Let it burn. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be.