Hello again,
My name is Pratiga,
Welcome.
This video is called The Fragrance of Being Today I'd like to invite you to that which is very spacious.
There is a beautiful lotus flower.
It does not try to offer its fragrance.
It does not choose to whom may receive its fragrance.
It's simply flowers.
And in this flowering,
Its fragrance is selflessly shared.
In much the same way being needs no effort to be.
Awareness does not try to become aware.
It simply is.
For much of life attention moves from thought to thought.
From feeling to feeling.
From memory to anticipation.
Always focused.
Yet now,
Quietly ask,
What is it that knows where attention rests?
Does that move as attention moves?
Or has it always been present?
Thoughts come and go,
Feelings come and go.
The body changes.
Circumstances change.
Even the sense of who one is changes.
Yet,
Something quietly remains.
Not as an experience to be held.
Not as an idea to be understood.
Simply that which is already present.
The eyes cannot turn to see their own seeing.
In the same way awareness cannot stand apart from itself.
Whatever is seen is simply and other appearance within awareness.
So there may be nothing to find,
Nothing to become.
Or nothing to grasp.
Not because something is missing.
But because what has been longed for has never been absent.
The lotus does not know its own fragrance.
It has no need to.
Its fragrance is not separate from what it is.
And perhaps being is much the same.
So for this moment there is nowhere to go,
Nothing to achieve.
Nothing to understand.
Just this simple presence of quiet awareness.
If anything remains after these words fade,
May it not be an idea.
May it simply be the sweet fragrance of being.
Thank you for sharing this quiet moment together.
Until next time we meet.
May the fragrance of simply being remain effortlessly.
With you.
Blessings to you.
