Morning,
Afternoon,
Evening.
So,
Let's get one thing straight,
Shall we?
And stop messing around.
This is not about trying.
It's not about trying to be present.
Trying to be more mindful,
More aware.
Right now.
Stop being aware.
Stop being present.
You can't.
You're already aware and present,
So why would you try to be more?
You can't be a more present.
It's a trap.
And all I'm doing is pointing out the traps.
I've been there,
Most of them.
How do you try the hard routers?
She's trying to do the impossible.
And I see people in retreats.
You know,
Meditating for a while and then I ring the bell and it's like.
.
.
Topple over,
Innit?
To been trying.
If you want to.
.
.
You talk about the step,
The directing,
It's more about back over.
If you want that,
It's more about back.
So we're already aware and present.
So you can't be more aware and present.
But something seemingly takes us away from being present.
Seemingly.
We only leave presence in our imagination.
And thought.
But those images of tomorrow or next week or the past.
It's like a little movie.
But the movie's playing now.
It's not playing next week.
It's just here.
Which were absorbed in the content.
Are lost in the content.
And the present moment is just here.
The hearing,
The seeing,
The feeling.
Sound of the traffic.
Feeling this aliveness,
This sense of presence,
The breath.
As Thierry Corbeck says,
Life is a second-by-second miracle,
But dreaming our dreams.
We miss it.
And we keep missing it.
Because we're looking for the strawberry I mentioned before,
The strawberry of life.
We think it's gone.
It hasn't got anywhere.
We had as an infant is still here,
Just that we don't recognize it because we've intoxicated with thought.
Almost every human being.
So give up the effort.
And just feel what's here.
Feel the breath.
In the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
Almost done.
I think it's a very intelligent approach.
The highest teaching is relax.
Just relax.
What are you doing?
Where are you going?
But just relax into what's already here.
Anyway,
Let's.
.
.
As you take a deep breath or two.
.
.
Don't try to stop your thinking.
Just drop the thoughts.
When you notice that you swirling around.
Just drop them.
No drama.
No drama.
You need to use the mantra,
Just there as a tool,
Or the end of the out-breath to help to settle things.
Where is the attention right now?
Just check in that the attitude is relaxed,
Not trying to block thinking.
That causes tension.
When you notice you're caught up with thinking,
It's fine.
To shift the attention back.
Towards not thinking.
The senses,
The body.
Breath.
Or that feeling of sadness.
You feel how effortless it is to hear.
So we don't need to strain or effortless to feel.
And to see.
Struggling a little.
Feel the end of the out-breath,
The natural softening there.
What's happening right now.
Are you watching the me movie?
Checking that you're not tensed up if you are just take your attention there take a deep breath and relax Okay,
Maybe a little stretch.
That's it for today.
