Closing your eyes,
Scanning the body,
Recognizing this awareness,
Recognizing this awareness is hearing the birds,
Is hearing the music,
Is hearing my words,
And this awareness has no name.
We're sinking into the quiet.
We don't need to take the big journey to our breath.
We can just come right to the sounds,
Right to the awareness.
Just aware of this present moment arising all around us.
What hears those birds?
Is that which hears the bird call separate from the bird call?
Look.
Look for yourself.
Is the act of receiving sound something that makes you separate?
Look and see.
Get right up close to that.
The hearing of the sound.
Is the awareness separate from the sound?
Look.
Thoughts may arise to block you from the recognition.
Be uninterested.
Sensations may arise,
Emotions.
Be uninterested.
Just for this moment together.
Be very interested.
What hears the sound?
Is the sound separate from that which hears it?
The mind cannot answer that for us.
You can only look directly from awareness.
You can only experience it directly.
This awareness is vast and not at all separate.
As you relax back into the awareness,
Exploring that connection,
You enter the resource,
A field of resource.
It's quiet in there.
Even as birds call,
Even as the world is surrounded by life and sound,
In a place where they're connected,
All connected,
It gets quite quiet.
Another name is emptiness.
Another name is allness.
Touch it directly for yourself with your awareness.
As we connect to that allness,
That awareness,
The separateness becomes undone.
Movements of doubt or confusion,
Self-consciousness,
All the insistences on separation start to become undone.
Be undone.
Be undone here.
Risk the connection.
Risk noticing the awareness that hears the sound is not separate from the sound,
Which can only be realized directly,
Cannot filter through a separate self,
Through the mind.
It's a direct recognition.
It's timelapse Trout.
Throw yourself into that recognition.
Give your whole self into that connection.
Be undone.
Nothing will be lost.
Everything will be gained.
That connection.
That quietness.
That emptiness.
That allness.
That presence.
Give yourself to it.
And you will find yourself profoundly rejuvenated.
Infinitely resourced.
Infinitely okay.
A peace that you've been longing for sits right there.
It's your birthright to have it.
Don't let a thought,
A sensation block your access.
It's yours.
It's your birthright to know this peace.
Follow it.
Follow the awareness.
Recognize the vastness of your original nature.
Give every ounce of you to it.
Nothing will be lost.
Extraordinary resource will be gained.
Come home.
That peace is yours.
That connection is yours.
Ok?
Your being already knows it.
You've tasted it.
In that taste,
There was more happiness than you've ever known.
And it's right here.
Never separate from you.
So consistently here.
So quiet.
So vast.
What did you find?
Every sound,
Every sensation emerges out of this.
Be this.
This is what you are.
This is what you are.
This is what you are.
Follow the silence.
Go as far as you can.
Give every ounce of yourself to it.
Just for now,
Risk.
Just knowing yourself.
This is what you are.
There's no effort here.
In this connection where the hearing and the sound are one,
The awareness connected to the infinite vastness.
There's no effort there.
Drop all the effort and it's still right there.
This is what you are.
This is what you are.
This is what you are.
This is what you are.
This is what you are.
This is what you are.
This is what you are.
This is what you are.
Right here is where that resistance will want to grab you back.
Don't let it.
Relaxing back into this awareness,
Exploring the vastness,
Diving into it.
Directly coming face to face.
Direct experience,
Direct taste of this vast awareness that you are.
Don't be itchy.
Don't be blocking.
Don't be caught up in pain.
Don't be thinking.
Don't be,
Don't let it grab you away from this direct awareness.
Which is another way to say,
Let the itch be here.
It doesn't need you.
Let the thoughts be here.
They don't need you.
All of this is arising inside of you.
All of this is arising inside of you.
Just on the other side is something so phenomenal,
So without words,
So vast,
So rich in resource and love.
Keep coming.
Keep coming.
Keep coming.
Keep coming.
Keep coming.
Keep coming.
Keep coming.
Keep coming.
Keep coming.
Keep coming.
Keep coming.
There is a peace that is unbound,
Available for your direct experience.
Within it is a joy unbound,
Available for you.
And love,
A love so bigger and vast than you could imagine.
And it all has your name.
It is you.
It is you.
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In your own time,
Take a deep breath.
Savor the body,
Breathing.
Let yourself come into your hands and your feet.
It is you.
