Hi,
I'm Bassem.
Thank you for joining me.
Let the whole of you,
From feet to toes,
Centre in the belly button.
And keep your attention there.
Let your breathing be relaxed.
Let the whole body be relaxed.
Cultivate that ability to stay at the belly button while listening.
And then if you go walking,
You walk while feeling your belly button,
Refusing to indulge your thoughts that are invested in what the world is doing.
You're talking and you're feeling your belly button.
You're washing the dishes and you're feeling your belly button.
And you develop that muscle.
You practice that.
In time,
This will help you to come out of the mind and into the body.
We live in our thoughts.
We register reality through our thinking.
Names.
Man.
Woman.
Human.
To meet the external,
You have first to meet the internal.
That's what waking up means.
Waking up means the outside and the inside have merged.
These words are coming out to the sense of being.
Listen without losing contact with your belly.
It's the beginning.
I go up to the cafe.
I ask for coffee with my being.
I walk,
Continuously practice being.
I keep trying to come back home to my being.
From early on,
We're taught to focus our attention externally.
Now we're trying to find our way back internally.
This is what it means to wake up.
Wake up is not something that happens intellectually.
There is something that is awake in this flesh.
So we say,
Feel your belly.
This is a step in that direction.
We see the world through words.
Every word has a meaning.
Mom means she should look after me.
Dad means you should give me money.
God means you should love me.
This way you never have to find out anything about God.
You don't have to find out anything about your mom or your dad.
As long as you're a soul,
You never have to find out what that means.
It's just a shortcut.
Change your investment from the external to the internal.
