Freedom from worries and concerns (Magdi 10-06-2022)

Good morning everyone. Lovely to see you all. So we'll start this meeting with a brief guided meditation and then we will come to pose whatever questions you may have. So sitting comfortably. Welcome your experience just as it appears, just as it is. Whatever sensations appear within your body may actually appear in awareness. Like the sound of this voice, like hearing these words arises in awareness. Simply be without doing anything just for now. You can let go of the past. Which means simply being present to whatever appears to you. Because whatever is appealing to you is appealing freshly in this moment. Like the breath, the sucking movement of breath. There is no effort required in this moment of being. Nothing that you need to figure out. We're not seeking any particular state. There's no destination that we are navigating towards. Just being present. Fresh moment. Like a birth to creation. In this moment of being we are not maintaining a story about me, my life, my past, my future. Because in this moment of being there is no time. Just the eternal presence, the eternity of awareness of being. We are not defining ourselves in any way in this moment. Not defining ourselves as a female or male, as a body, as a mother, daughter, son. In this moment of presence, of awareness, does not need, does not require a story about the body, about the world, about the mind. Awareness is ever fresh, created. It's not dragging corpses. And this awareness is the reality that right now hears these words. Which we refer to as I. I awareness is not trying to solve a problem. It's free of concerns and worries which have to do with time. Me in time which is a belief because time appears to you. You are not in time. Time is you. That's a memory for example. Remembering my grandmother. Remembering New York City. Remembering breakfast this morning. This thought appears to you. Appears within you. Invoking time. But you, the reality which perceives these words right now, the reality which is, does not appear in time. I do not appear within a thought. A thought appears within me. I do not appear within a sensation. A sensation appears within me, is an awareness. So I, awareness, consciousness, is already free from worries and concerns. Worries and concerns relate to the belief that I am a person. What's going to happen to me? Why is this happening to me, me the person, the mother, the father, the body, mind. Believing yourself to be body, mind, believing yourself to be a human form, which the body is. But believing yourself to be a human form. A mortal human form. Identifying yourself with mortality. There are worries and concerns. The fear of ultimate disappearance. Absolute disappearance of I. It is this identification with the body, mind, the root cause of all worries and concerns. There is a way out of that. It is the understanding about I. I awareness, I consciousness. Not a physical object. It can be wounded, it can be hurt. I, the reality, the consciousness of awareness, presence, being. What you truly are, is not what you believe yourself to be or you sheen yourself to be. You may believe yourself to be a unicorn. You may believe yourself to be beautiful, ugly, intelligent, stupid. Beliefs based on your choice. You choose to believe that you are a limited body, mind. Once you choose that, that is what your experience will be. But when you remain not knowing, so this is the story.