Awakening to Presence

In this meditation Burgs guides us into a state of presence, to connect us to and point out, our innate awakened awareness that is the ground of our being and the true nature of our mind.

Transcript

Let's do our meditation. Just relax into your posture. Just give yourself permission just to be. Start to recognize as you learn how to settle yourself even from a disturbed state into a state of coherence is that there is an aspect of you that has never been disturbed by anything. When we come to recognize that inner stillness there is an aspect of it that has always been there that has always rested within itself and has never been in conflict and that the moment we calm our mind it reveals itself as spontaneously present and that is a great refuge to know that and it is only the forgetting of that that causes us to think that we've got ourselves in a muddle when actually we're just misorganized. So settle back and relax. When I ask you to tune into your heart there are two things that you can tune into in the heart. One is the momentary degree to which one aspect has been disturbed by what's been going on in your mind and that aspect comes to stillness as your mind calms down. But there is another aspect in the heart that has never been disturbed at all that has always rested in stillness clear and mirror-like and lucid and luminous and bright. When I ask you to tune into the room and feel the stillness of the room as your heart calms down you start to perceive stillness and tuning into it and resting in it brings you into a state of inner stillness. Only as you learn to leave your experience completely alone do you stop disturbing yourself with your mind. And at that moment the luminous basic ground of your awareness that has always rested in stillness reveals itself and we start to recognize gradually that stillness that we are tuned to that rests in the background behind the arising and passing of things. That is the very ground from which everything is arising and into which it is passing away is the very same luminous state of pure awareness that is the ground of our being. That we are all arising and passing appearing momentarily moment to moment within the same basic ground and it is not separate. When your mind comes to stillness and the sense of self or me in the middle of my experience begins to fade we start to recognize that place where we have always been connected seamlessly to everything and that it is only the momentary arising of this sense of me in the middle of it that appears with the appearance of my mind that creates the illusion of separation. Rest calmly within yourself. When you can leave everything just as it is without adding to it or taking from it with your mind without disturbing yourself and without disturbing your experience you recognize that there is no separation. Rest effortlessly within yourself. Leave everything as it is to reveal itself naturally. Rest in the stillness from which it is all arising. Steady yourself as gently and as calmly as if you were a dandelion seed coming to rest upon a bubble. Rest so delicately there is no part of you that disturbs the experience. And just be there. Stay settled and calm. Just rest. Rest in the heart and in the body like a mountain, Like a crystal clear mountain lake. Let awareness reveal itself like an endless, Crowdless blue sky. A-ga-dee-pa-la-sa-ng-ga-dee-po-di-so-ham. A-ga-dee-pa-la-sa-ng-ga-dee-po-di-so-ham. A-ga-dee-pa-la-sa-ng-ga-dee-po-di-so-ham. A-ga-dee-pa-la-sa-ng-ga-dee-po-di-so-ham. Beyond beyond, Utterly beyond. Beyond the arising and passing of conditioned states of mind and their display. Your true nature, Your Buddha nature, Rests effortlessly within itself and it is not in conflict. Leave everything as it is. One, One, One. One, One, One. One, One, One. My all beings, Be happy. Feel again your body squeeze your fingers, Breathe in. And out.

Reviews

Thank you for your guidance in pointing to the stillness within.

That was really soulful , simple and rich. Merci 💛

Lovely, calm & just guided enough...
thank you for sharing your singing voice too 💜 🙏🌈

Every time I do this meditation I notice my mind chatter slows down and then ceases at a different point. Sometimes midway through other times towards the very end.

A wonderful meditation. I am so happy to have found Burgs. His teachings and meditations are helping me find my way back from a very dark place.