So in this meditation,
I'd like to invite you into just relaxing,
Just relaxing this habit we have of trying to keep our experience within a certain parameter.
This habit we have of trying to keep our thoughts,
Our feelings,
And our sensations in a certain way,
Trying to manage them,
Trying to modulate them,
To regulate them in some way in order to feel okay,
In order to feel a sense of well-being,
A sense of peace,
Or if we're spiritual seekers,
In order to discover a more enlightened,
Realized,
Awake state.
So the quality I'd like to invite you to experience and explore in this time is that of effortlessness,
Of not needing to do anything.
To simply notice,
Without any effort,
What is already happening,
What is already occurring,
Without our needing to in any way intervene to make it happen.
Notice how effortless it is to simply be,
How no effort is required to exist.
Existence is happening,
Life is happening,
Aliveness is happening,
And it's effortless.
Life moves effortlessly,
Changes effortlessly,
Becomes the next thing effortlessly.
It becomes the next thing effortlessly.
Whether your eyes are open or closed,
Just notice how seeing is happening effortlessly.
The faculty of seeing is here,
Without any effort on our part to see,
Seeing is arising,
A natural function of life itself,
Seeing.
You may be seeing many different things,
But the seeing itself is effortless.
And as with seeing,
So with hearing,
The hearing of sound within and around us is effortless.
Hearing is simply happening,
Spontaneously.
A natural function of life itself in us,
Hearing,
Listening.
Sounds entering the sphere,
The space of hearing,
Immediately,
With nothing needing to be done.
And we can just relax in that effortlessness.
And pervading all of our experience,
The hearing,
The seeing,
Touching,
The tasting,
The feeling,
The sensing,
There is this stream flowing,
This stream of knowing,
This stream of awareness,
This stream of being aware that flows without our doing anything.
This current,
This river of knowing,
Flowing within all of experience,
Lighting up each moment that is known.
And this happens effortlessly,
Moment by moment.
This moment being known,
Whatever the texture or taste of this moment is,
It is known,
Effortlessly.
Awareness shining within each experience with nothing needing to be done to make it shine.
It is self-shining.
Just enjoying the effortlessness of being aware,
The effortlessness of knowing,
The effortlessness of simply being.
Life,
Existence,
Sustaining itself effortlessly,
Knowing itself in each experience effortlessly,
Being itself through each experience effortlessly.
Life appearing as you,
Appearing as every aspect of you,
Every thought,
Every feeling,
Every sensation,
Appearing,
Arising effortlessly.
Each moment arising and vanishing effortlessly.
Every perception appearing and then disappearing effortlessly.
Every feeling becoming and then dissolving effortlessly.
Experience flowing,
Changing,
Shape-shifting,
Moment by moment,
Effortlessly.
Thank you.
