Seeing The World Like A Newborn

Return to awareness before labels, memory, and mental stories. In this gentle guided meditation, you are invited to experience life with the simplicity of a newborn child, where sensations are felt directly, sounds are heard without interpretation, and space is known without concepts.

Through soft guidance, attention relaxes out of effort and back into natural presence. Nothing needs to be controlled, understood, or achieved.

In this meditation, you’ll explore
- Experiencing sensations without naming
- Childlike awareness as natural non-dual presence
- Letting go of effort and anticipation
- Awareness as silent prayer and effortless being
- Timeless presence beyond past and future

This is not about becoming someone else, but recognizing the peace and innocence that have always been here beneath thought and conditioning.

Transcript

So, If you are ready, Please close your eyes and feel relaxed and sit however you like. Sit, Recline, But ensure that there is rest in your posture and usually rest comes if you have a good parallel posture where your arms are parallel to each other, Feet are evenly placed on the floor. If you are sitting on a chair, That is, Your back is straight, Your chin is roughly parallel to the ground and there is a smile on your face. So now, Feel your body from the perspective of a newborn child. A newborn child is aware of all sensations, Right, But he or she or they have not given name to any sensations. They have no memory of sensations and they have no narrative about the sensations. A newborn child like. So for example, Feel the sensation you are feeling in your hands and now do not call this sensation your hand because the newborn child doesn't know anything about hand. So just see this sensation, Just feel the sensations as sensations without naming them, Without associating any image with them from your memory. A newborn child has no concept of hand. So in the same way, Bring your awareness to your heart, To your lungs and the sensation of breathing and see that, Feel that as if a vibration, A sensation is taking place without naming it, Being completely neutral. Now do the same thing with your legs, With your thighs, With your feet. In one sweeping scan, Feel your lower body from the perspective of a newborn child, Just series of sensations with no name, No concept of them. And when you're ready, Bring the same perspective to your face and feel your entire face from the perspective of a newborn child. You have not seen your face. You do not know that this is what people call face. But for you, This is just raw sensations. There is no memory of the sensations, So there is no narrative about it. Just the raw experience of sensations that you will later call face. So we will continue to have this perspective of a newborn child throughout this meditation. Continue to smile and do not feel any burden about this task. Do not feel any anticipation because a newborn child doesn't know what to expect next. Become completely effortless in your presence. And this newborn child has beautiful smile. So there is smile on their face. This newborn child intuitively knows that a smile brings peace. Whenever this child knows the sensation that he will later call happiness, There is a smile on his face. So continue to smile gently like a newborn child and explore or live your life, Your presence from the perspective of this newborn child. You will feel the feeling of lightness. You will feel that feeling of not needing to know anything, Not needing to identify anything. So continue to dwell in that sense of newborn child's presence. This newborn child is also aware of the space. Also aware of the light he sees in the space. So remain aware of the space. Newborn child doesn't even know that this space is called room or house. So be aware of your surroundings in this abstract manner. Newborn child is also aware of sounds. All the sounds from your room, Sounds from within the body and sounds outside of the room. Newborn child is aware of all of them. So smile and be aware of those sensations we call sounds and those perceptions we call space. Do not try to get this right. Remain curious, Remain innocent. And you will see that your awareness will help you to not identify with the sensations and perceptions that are appearing in you. Your wisdom will help you. Do not do anything. Just allow the words to find its meaning through your wisdom. And even if you do something, See that how futile the doing is, The effort is. And see how if you were to let your wisdom do the work, It is always better than trying to fix it with your mind, With your thought, With your effort. That is a deeper meaning of being childlike. Childlike means you are allowing your wisdom, You are living your presence with the wisdom that is already in you, Already exhibiting all of this we call life. It is already understanding, Interacting with what we call life. So let go of any sense of control, Any sense of doing right or wrong. The newborn child that you are has no such concept. This newborn child is very trusting of the process we call life. So just smile and know that you can't get this wrong. It is not a hard exercise. It is the easiest, Most effortless meditation that you are invited to. So smile, Be effortless and allow all the sensations, All the words to be displayed in you. And these words, These sensations will be interpreted from the perspective of your wisdom without any effort. So see yourself as the reality that is listening to these words. See your essential existence as the truth that understands these words, Understands and experiences this current, Present experience. And this definition of reality or truth is your anchor. So if you remember this simple definition of reality, That the reality or the truth is this awareness awareness that is listening to these words or experiencing my current experience. And see that for the reality to exist, You did not have to do anything. So let go of all your doings. Newborn child knows nothing of the doings and undoings. Smile and be that newborn child like. From the perspective of a newborn child. Again, Feel your body. From the toes to the top of the head. As one entity, Just raw sensation that you will later call body. From the perspective of this newborn child, Feel the sensation of your breathing. Feel the sensation and the perception we call surroundings, Space. Without naming it, Without knowing it. There is no memory of the sensations, There is no name for the sensations. Just raw experiencing the presence. Your breath is known, But it is not named. The sensation in your back is known, But it is not named. The perception of the space and sound is known, But it is not named. Imagine how free, How magical this world of newborn child is. Remain rooted, Marinated in this world of this newborn child. Each moment spent in this world of newborn child is magical. It's full of happiness, It's full of stillness. And at the same time, It is dynamic. I continue to smile because the newborn child in this presence is very happy. There is nothing to know, Nothing to get right or wrong. It's just pure awareness, Living, Experiencing. Nothing but the presence, Nothing but here and now. No thought of past is sticking, No thought of future is staying here from the perspective of newborn child. In all cultures, This perspective of newborn child, This presence of newborn child was akin to pure awareness. In all cultures across the globe, This living, This experience, This presence was attributed as pure awareness in form, In the form of newborn baby. And you have passed through it. Later on put layers and layers and layers of conditioning, Knowledge, Rather information, Identifying objects with names, Identifying feelings with names and tags. Newborn child had grown up and tried to find their place in the world, Forgetting that the original place was always this placeless place. That forgotten, That they were always rooted in this timeless time. They were always this, They would always be this. So continue to abide in this pure wisdom of newborn child. It is the most precious gift that you had come to this life that remains throughout your life. And there is no evidence that with the body or mind disappearing, This essential wisdom also disappears. So remain open to this possibility that this is all you have. This is all you would ever need. The consciousness, The awareness of being of everything. Do this, Another thought experiment and ask yourself that if you have one billion dollars but no awareness, No sense of knowing and being, What would be more precious, This awareness, This very simple, Ever-present, Benign, Inclusive awareness or one billion dollars? That is nothing except this awareness. One billion dollars is also given its meaning by this awareness. Otherwise it's nothing. So remain marinated in the presence of your awareness. Like a newborn child, Knowing that everything will be taken care of. Very intuitively knowing that you did not have to lift a finger. So be here with confidence, With trust. Very humbly, Not asking for anything, Not looking for anything, Not rejecting anything. Be with this presence as presence. This is the highest form of prayer. Prayer that is abiding with the source as the source. Prayer that is not asking for anything. Prayer that knows that it is home. So allow your meditation to turn into prayer. Allow your mind to sink in your heart. Allow the presence to take over. A newborn child is almost in his deep sleep. A newborn child is almost one with the source. Completely letting it go. There is no control whatsoever needed. A newborn child is the symbol of wisdom. It's a symbol of divine in many cultures. And this is the experience of it. Your presence to know this intimately. Allow this knowledge to become the reality of your experience. It will never be lost. The fragrance of this experience ever so subtly will always be with you. Have the trust. Trust in this magical realm of reality. And let go. As such this newborn child knows nothing, Has no memory, No concept. But as such this newborn child knows everything. Everything that is essential. And everything that is non-essential that a grown-up child knows. Will become, Will be impermanent. This will stay with you. The newborn child will remain so smart in knowing this knowledge firsthand. It is not a small or trivial discovery. Smile and allow it to abide with you as you in you. A newborn child knows nothing of time. Be that newborn child. It is perpetually rooted in here and now. And there is no time in now. It is his ability to remain rooted in now allows his body to quickly develop. To do all the healings it all needs. So smile. And continue to sit with me like this without any exchange of words for a few more moments. Continue to remain a newborn child like on your own. As you have always been essentially. Be happy.