Hello and welcome to meditation.
Recognize this moment.
Recognize your presence in this body.
Maybe feeling the density of your bones,
The weight of the body sitting down.
Noticing maybe the points of contact between your body and the surface you're sitting on or the floor,
If your feet are touching the floor.
Recognizing this body as home.
And as you feel the body in this moment and you recognize this sense of home,
This body is home.
I invite you to sense how you want to be home.
Home.
Normally when you have a home you want to treat the home nicely,
Clean the home,
Make it comfy,
Be a safe place.
So what are the qualities of home that you can apply to your own body as your home?
How can you treat your body to be your home?
And knowing that your home is placed on this land,
On this planet,
And that all around you you might be able to notice and perceive what's present through your home,
Through the body.
So maybe you can hear cars passing by,
Or maybe voices down the corridor,
Or birds chirping outside the window.
Just noticing what you can listen to right at this moment,
Being in your home,
In this body.
Allowing the sounds to come towards you.
There's no need to reach out to go to the sound.
Just noticing how each sound just comes and goes in their own time and space.
And you from home notice them all.
And as you notice the sounds,
Maybe there are thoughts that are related to the sounds that you hear.
Maybe you like the sound of the bird and you dislike the sound of the car.
And see if you can just notice.
Notice the sounds,
Notice the likes and dislikes.
Notice the thoughts about each of your likes and dislikes.
But remain home just right here.
Simply observing all the things that come to you.
Cultivating this attitude of both curiosity to what comes and acceptance.
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Maybe you can start to understand.
The natural likes and dislikes.
The natural way of the thinking mind.
To simply have opinions,
Categorize,
Plan.
Without adding any layer of judgement to it.
Simply noting,
Being curious to notice the patterns.
And accept that that's nature.
That's just what it is.
While you are home,
Just observing all that comes.
Allow each thought to calm and go in their own time.
There's no need to prevent or to make them stay.
Your nature is to just observe.
Just like birds flying in the sky.
Are your thoughts.
They come,
Sometimes a lot of them come.
They make sounds,
But they also go and you,
One,
Come again.
While you're just the sky where all the birds are flying freely.
Just notice what sounds are present right now.
And what relationship you create with them through your thoughts,
Your likes and dislikes.
Just as naturally occur.
While you truly is just noticing all of this from home.
Even if you think a thought is something that you want to engage with.
Notice that you're prior to that thought.
You notice it.
And just like caging the bird.
If you create a cage for it and you engage with it all the time.
If you want to listen to the bird all the time.
It loses its free nature.
So my invitation to you is to simply listen.
Notice.
Notice even the maybe desire to engage with that little bird,
That little thought.
But if you're noticing you are prior to this.
And how does it feel at home?
In this body you inhabit.
To simply allow the birds to fly freely.
Ho.
I invite you to feel and the body.
How does it feel to allow the mind to be the mind?
To think,
To have its patterns,
And to simply notice without caging?
And also without avoiding the birds to approach?
Knowing,
Also,
How to be the mind?
Knowing also that if at any moment there was an engagement with a thought,
Rather than just watching the thought,
That's okay too.
And the moment you notice,
You can just return to simply noticing.
Being home,
Being in this body,
And noticing what passes by.
Rugged by itself.
Thank you for watching!
