Good morning,
Good afternoon,
Good evening.
So.
A few woods.
So.
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Wanting to remember.
When meditating.
Is don't try to retain anything.
Don't try to change yourself.
Don't try to do anything.
The problem that human beings have is that there's a case of mistaken identity.
We take our identity from thought.
We keep listening to thought.
And what's happened at some point,
And infants and young people don't do this,
We have taken what thought says to be reality.
And that's why we're walking down the street or drinking a cup of coffee and we're lost in thought,
Just listening,
Just in this story about life.
It's not life,
It's a story about it.
And stories are made up.
I'm not talking about functional or practical thinking.
That's different.
And we don't realise that it's made up.
The body doesn't realise it's made up.
That's why he goes tense or anxious or whatever.
So what we do,
We keep feeding it,
We keep it alive.
I've used the analogy before of going to the fairground and buying tickets for the.
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The ghost train of her.
The Big Dipper.
The Walsers.
And we pay our money and we take a ticket and we go on the ride.
The mind is offering you tickets.
It's offering you tickets to go on these rides.
But at least the ghost train ride is kind of real.
It's really happening.
The mental one isn't.
So the mind offers you a ticket.
But to tick it in your hand for an anxious ride.
So we take the ticking,
Off we go,
Spinning.
It's just a mental ride.
It's imagined.
And it doesn't take an Einstein to see that.
That's what we're doing here.
Not try to follow some fantasy.
And the more that we see through that,
And it just happens gradually.
As we just sit quietly paying attention.
We're also marinating in this sense of presence.
Because that's where we want to be living.
Here not there,
Here not there.
Not in the imagined.
And that's what just about every human being is doing to some degree.
Taking these tickets from mine,
Then going on these rides,
The FIFA ride,
The angry ride,
The anxious ride.
So just decline the rights.
Or when you notice that you're on the ride,
Just get off.
Come back to this.
Come back to that which isn't a thought.
This is so crucial.
So it's so simple.
It's simpler than the word simple.
Just come back to that which isn't thinking.
So is the breath thinking?
No.
What do you mean?
There we go off again.
Trying to work it out,
There's nothing to work out.
There's nothing to solve.
That's the error we fall into.
I think we have to fix ourselves.
We do is see clearly what's happening and rest in this sense of beingness,
This sense of presence.
That's all you need to do.
Anything more and you're just getting in the way.
Is the contact,
The sensation of contact with the seat,
Is that thinking?
No.
Seeing of this laptop,
The seeing of the wall or the tree,
Is that thinking?
Is it a thought?
Bodily sensations and not thoughts.
Okay.
Couple of deep breaths.
If you want to use the mantra,
Sharim,
You can do.
If the mind is overly busy.
Getting offered right,
Left,
Right and centre.
Resting in the body.
Feeling the body.
Or more specifically the breath if you wish Where are you now?
On a ride?
Or she don't go on a ride about to ride.
If you try to achieve something,
It's just another ride.
They're endless.
But it's okay.
Just come back to the breath.
The hearing of the birds or the traffic.
The body.
And the body will relax.
What's happening.
Where is the attention?
Just checking that you are relaxed.
Unless your attitude is relaxed.
For your early,
Bright awakening.
No straining is not allowed.
Don't have to strain to be.
When he becomes familiar with such a relief in resting his presence.
I'm getting on all the rides.
Get sleepy,
Just open your eyes.
The ego has no purpose here.
Okay,
That's the end of the session.
Have a little.
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Shake,
Whatever you do.
So thank you guys,
Have a good day.
