Wide Awake Awareness: Nondual Presence (With Music)

Welcome to a transformative exploration of Wide Awake Awareness, a profound state of mindful presence that can revolutionize your perception of reality. In this enlightening video, we dive deep into the concept of open awareness, understanding its significance, and learning how to cultivate it in our daily lives. Wide Awake Awareness is a state of heightened consciousness where you experience the reality of life with crystal clarity, unburdened by the filters of judgment and distraction. It's a state of pure, unadulterated presence in the here and now. In this audio, we'll delve into the essence of wide-awake awareness, its benefits for mental and emotional well-being, and practical techniques to help you attain this state. Discover how to break free from the autopilot mode of living and awaken to the richness of each moment.

Transcript

Your eyes are closed if that's comfortable to you and don't forget the smile and let go of any anticipation as to what's next.

So let go of that anticipation.

Let go of any expectation you may have from this meditation.

We're just going to sit here and explore some of the questions,

Some of the prompts.

So in this meditation,

We will try to not do any effort,

Try to not do any focusing and whenever I invite your attention to focus on an object,

So to speak,

It's only a very loose attention that is required.

For example,

I now invite you to bring your attention to your breathing and see how very loosely you can incorporate that breathing in your awareness.

So a lot of things happening,

But breathing is also featured in your awareness.

So in that light manner,

Allow the breathing to come to the prominence in your experience.

So let go of any effort and just remain loosely aware of your breathing in and breathing out,

Again breathing in and breathing out.

And as you breathe in,

Know that you are breathing in and as you're breathing out,

Know that you are breathing out.

In other words,

Become more aware of the fact that you're breathing in and breathing out and then let go of the word breathing in and breathing out.

Just remain aware of the sensations of breathing in and breathing out and by sensations what I mean is how it feels in your body to breathe in and to breathe out.

So remain one with those sensations,

Remain open and aware to those breathing sensations.

So this is how experientially it feels to breathe in and breathe out.

So experientially,

Now let's feel the body,

Feel the sensations in your palms,

Both palms,

The left palm and the right palms,

Both palms,

Any sensations.

And see this is how experientially you're feeling your body,

You're knowing your body.

Right now you're knowing your palms and any sensations in there.

And in the same way,

You're now aware of your shoulders,

Both of your shoulders and the sensation in and around your shoulders and this is your actual experience of your shoulders.

So let go of any assumption of the shoulders,

But just the knowing of sensations of your shoulders.

So there's difference.

Thus experientially again knowing few more parts of your body,

See if you can now experientially feel your heart or the movement of chest as you breathe in and out,

Feeling the sensations of your lungs and the muscles and the movement in your chest region and see now you're more aware of your stomach and the movement of stomach as you breathe in and out.

And knowing and feeling your stomach through these sensations only,

Becoming more and more aware of the sensations,

Again in a light manner without a lot of effort,

Just simple knowing of this bodily sensation.

And now bring your awareness to the soles of your feet,

Soles of your feet and all the sensations there,

The touch of your socks,

Shoes,

Carpet,

The stability of the ground.

You're even welcome to wriggle your toes just a little bit to feel the sensation of wriggling,

Sensation of body in that part.

Now feel the sensations in and around your knees,

Both knees.

Now become aware of the whole body,

The whole body as one unit,

Including the soles of your feet and the very top of your head,

The entire body in your awareness as one sensation,

Although you can divide parts.

Right now you are choosing to experience the body as one sensation and see how it feels to you.

You are breathing in,

Breathing out,

One body,

One breath and letting off any judgment,

Any commentary on whether I'm doing this right or wrong,

Any judgment,

Any commentary is not your business right now.

So allow it to come,

But give priority to this awareness,

Awareness that is focusing on the object of things that it is aware of,

So your awareness is aware of few objects such as your body and your breath.

So your awareness is now aware of the,

Not just the body and the breath,

But also the space around it.

See how easily you can become aware of the space around your body.

And as you breathe in and out,

You know that you are in fact interacting with the space around you as you breathe in and out.

The air that was outside is now inside and the air that was inside is now outside and you're constantly breathing in and out,

Interacting.

But beyond that,

You are also aware of this space in your awareness.

You're aware of the space for the sense of touch on your skin.

So the air is touching your skin and you're aware of the space and the air around you.

So see your body as a wick of the candle and your awareness as the glow around the wick of your candle and see your body as the glow and the wick.

So allowing yourself to become bigger than what you usually think you are.

So let go of any sense of boundary and become as big as your awareness is right now.

Your awareness is bigger than your body,

Bigger than your breath and is occupying the space of the room that you are in.

So become as big as the room,

The space in the room.

Just experientially feeling,

Becoming your awareness and letting go of any sense of boundary and see experientially you don't feel that boundary right now.

So you're not just the body or the body,

The boundary of body is gone and you have seamlessly become one with the space around you.

So continue with this experimentation,

Continue to become one with the space,

Continue to breathe in and out in this space as the space,

Not as the body and it's very natural,

Very normal to you.

Continue to become the space.

Remember the metaphor of candle and a wick and a glow and if you're visualizing,

If you're imagining it,

Let go of that imagination and experientially become aware of the space and let go of any boundary,

Any notion of boundary and it's very easy and innate to you.

Continue to breathe in and out.

Continue to remain wider,

Bigger,

Spacious,

Inclusive,

Yet benign,

Soft,

Relaxed,

Happy and peaceful.

You do not have to become peaceful,

You are recognizing that you are peaceful right now.

So peacefulness is like the fragrance of being aware,

Of being aware,

Being aware,

Of being aware.

Continue to breathe in and out and continue to remain aware of your spacious nature.

There's nothing to do,

Nothing to get right or wrong and know that any commentary is like a sensation of thought,

Any judgment is like a sensation of thought and any thought is like a sensation appearing in this space.

See if that's true for you.

Have a thought and see how it feels to have that thought and already that thought is gone and a new thought has come and already that thought has gone and see experientially how it feels like knowing your thought and see how fleeting they are.

So allowing all these thoughts to come and go but they for now not going to take you away from your awareness,

They're going to be given space to arise in your sky,

In your space to come and to go.

So continue to see yourself and be yourself as sky like awareness,

Spacious awareness in which things are known,

Things are felt but they're not pursued,

They're not rejected.

Thought is known but it's not pursued,

It's not rejected.

Even happy thoughts are not pursued and it's rejected.

So continue to breathe in and out,

Continue to remain as wide as the space in your room and know that everything is unfolding in you,

All the experiences are known in you,

All your thoughts are known,

All your bodily sensations are known,

All your breathing,

Air,

Everything is known here in this vast spacious space.

Continue to breathe in and out,

There is nothing special happening,

It's just you resting here as awareness,

Nothing special,

Nothing for which you need any pre-qualification,

Any practice,

Just you resting.

Now let go of the boundary we kept referring to as room and become as wide,

As wide as the sky,

As wide as the space and let go of that boundary that we kept referring to as room because really there is no difference between the space in your room and the space outside of your room and you are aware of it.

So remain aware of all the space you can think of,

You can imagine and become one with that space experientially,

Without any effort,

Knowingly become one with the space that you know of and the space that you don't know of,

Let go of any sense of boundary,

Become as wide as you can.

Now your awareness knows of no boundary,

There is no periphery,

There is no circumference and even the center is gone,

You are one with the space as wide as the space is and yet all the thoughts and imaginations and bodily sensations are still here,

We see them,

We feel them,

We are not pursuing them,

We are not rejecting them but we are enjoying quietly without effort the fragrance of peace and happiness,

Overcoming with this,

Becoming one with the space and yet there is no effort.

Let's talk about this effort,

See this effort that we talk about is also a thought,

So try to make an effort to make this perfect and see how it is just a thought,

It's not this wide awake spacious awareness,

It's a thought in that awareness.

So me getting this right,

Me getting this wrong is nothing but a thought,

It is felt like a sensation in this awareness,

So sometimes a metaphor is used,

They say the thought should be seen as a bird in the sky,

They come and go,

They float around and they go but the sky is not perturbed by the bird,

Sky can choose to enjoy the bird or sky can choose to become or remain indifferent to the bird,

So continue to remain as the bird,

As the sky and time to time you do become the bird because birds are pretty and they attract your attention and you may identify yourself as a bird and that's fine too but for now we're going to give priority to remain as sky,

So knowing the nature of these birds,

These thoughts is very important so that we don't identify ourselves with these thoughts,

Emotions and we know or we have ability to know ourselves as the sky like awareness in which things unfold,

Objects are known,

Experiences are lived but the sky like awareness remains unperturbed and ever peaceful,

Continue to breathe in and out,

Continue watching the birds but continue to remain more importantly as the sky,

As the sky like awareness,

Watching,

Knowing,

Feeling everything but not pursuing or rejecting anything and being satisfied in this,

Not as an emotion but just as a fragrance of your awareness,

The peacefulness and happiness are arising,

You don't know from where,

We don't need to know from where are they there as if it's the nature of being aware,

Nature of being aware is synonymous to being peaceful,

Being happy,

Being satisfied and in many cultures they are known,

This meditation is known as the meditation of love or meditation of peacefulness or as per the culture and space and place people have given this meditation a lot of different names,

Some call it method of no method meditation,

Some call it pure mind meditation,

Some call it open awareness and you may have noticed that we started with mindfulness which loosely means being aware of objects,

Body,

The breath,

The sounds and that activity allowed us to remain more and more focused and let go of 1000 things that mind is usually aware of which prepared the ground for us to then pay more attention to the medium in which all those objects were seen and felt and that medium we call as awareness and then we let go of those objects and then we became bigger,

One with the space around you and then we even let go of this space metaphor of the room and we become even bigger without any boundary,

A spacious awareness and now all we do is we remain here,

We remain one as the spacious awareness knowing and feeling everything,

It's not that mind is not working,

That mind is not perturbing you,

Thoughts are coming,

Emotions are coming and going but you are one with your peacefulness as wide spacious awareness that is inclusive of everything but yet bigger than everything that is appearing in it,

So with this knowing that you didn't need any pre-qualification to be this awareness,

Having the confidence and your direct sensory experience is all you need to come back to here,

Sometimes making space in your day and if not day at least in your week to come back to visit this space in a more formal way will help you to come back to this space in your daily life,

In your active life to be one with this spacious space of happiness,

Peacefulness and knowing that birds are birds but you are that open wide awareness,

So with that we hope you can add the calendar invite in your Google calendar and we hope that many of you come next Tuesday to be one in this spacious space and whenever you feel ready you can become aware of your body,

Of the space,

Of your room,

Of your physical sensations and you can choose to sit like this for a few more moments,

Minutes,

You can choose to open your eyes and when you open the eyes know that the awareness is still working but now it's in background and the objects have taken over and that's fine,

That's what's supposed to happen.

Thank you.