OK,
So drop all ideas,
Drop all aims and objectives.
Drop all ambitions.
Just one second guys,
You're going to close these doors.
Just drop everything.
And what's left?
What's left when all that's dropped?
What's left?
There is a sense of presence.
Effortless.
There's hearing.
Effortless.
There is this aliveness.
And then there is being lost in thought.
Let the thoughts dissolve in the silence.
For leave them alone.
That is the zone.
Just accept this present moment exactly as it is.
What would happen?
Up to our resistance.
All control.
Where are you now?
What's happening?
And listening to the made-up world.
To the storyteller.
What's going on.
Or it's happening.
Just experience what's happening,
You don't need to go into a.
.
.
A commentary about it.
All that is really happening is hearing,
Seeing,
Smelling,
Feeling.
The mind is saying something else.
So if anybody's got a question,
An observation to.
.
.
I'm new to cell phone.
In the chat.
So we're sitting here right now.
When you're listening or feeling,
Just in the senses.
The body.
Subtly relaxes.
I want you to notice.
When your attention gets lost in thought.
As a subtle contraction of the body.
Maybe the belly,
The shoulders,
The jaw.
Just notice it.
You moved into the made-up world,
Anything can happen.
And their body doesn't know the difference.
Whilst you're sitting here.
Whatever the mind says is really quite irrelevant.
Unless it's an emergency.
Really natural.
The mind is useful for.
He might remind you to.
Call the doctors.
Something like that,
When you're planning your train journey,
That's when the mind is useful.
Working through practical problems when they needed to.
Is not helpful with it.
About us,
Other people.
Judgments,
Stories.
That's become beliefs.
The middle of the word belief is l i e a lie a belief is a lie completely unnecessary.
And the Buddha.
Discover the beliefs of the cause of suffering.
I believe I am X,
Y,
Z.
There you go,
Straight in.
Like diving into the fire.
So repeat something.
I thought you'd repeat it many times.
Becomes a belief.
Might be about somebody else.
Mr.
Y is X,
Y is X.
Johnny's ex.
I believe this about John.
I believe this about myself.
Then that belief,
We've believed many times,
Becomes an identity.
So now I've got an identity,
I'm on this side of the fence,
They're on that side of the fence.
They don't believe what I believe.
And it's all made up.
And just believing the thoughts.
And that's the cause of human suffering.
I think the Buddha was spot on with it.
And many more.
Millions of people down the ages have to.
It's not special.
Banky our dog,
He doesn't have those beliefs.
This works as tell.
So when these thoughts arrive,
Even in daily life.
You can label them,
I'm having the thought,
Dot,
Dot,
Dot,
Which we've done.
Or just meet them with silence.
They just dissolve.
Like a fire,
If you don't feed the fire,
It just burns itself out.
We keep feeding it.
We just stop feeding it.
That's all we're doing.
We start to see the illusory nature of thought,
Not seeing they are an illusion.
What they represent or what they present is an illusion.
Illusory.
Not true.
Okay.
Little stretch.
Thank you,
Guys.
See you,
Belinda.
See you all.
See you,
Oliver.
Bye now.
Alison,
Linda,
Bye-bye.
Take care.
Good weekend,
Everyone.
Thank you.
Same to you.
Bye.
Bye.
