Morning,
Afternoon,
Evening.
So I'm going to read a short extract from.
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Something,
I'm not quite sure where it's from,
But it's an extract anyway.
True meditation is not a technique of mental control or an effort to achieve a special state.
But rather an immediate turning towards.
Or turning inward to rest awareness directly within the living body.
When you let go trying to fix,
Alter or transcend your experience.
And instead allow attention to anchor in the felt,
Breathing sensory reality of the physical form,
The endless wheel of seeking simply drops away.
This embodied resting cuts through abstract mental noise,
Revealing that peace is not something to be attained in the future.
But the silent luminous ground already present right here in this moment.
Who could see in every moment.
Now that peace is referring to.
Or rather,
Let me put it another way.
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What it begins to open us to is what one very good Buddhist teacher called intuitive awareness.
It's more of an intuitive knowing and intuitive living,
Which is quieter.
Than the mental noise that's trying to control our life,
Because that has no idea of what to do.
It's a tool.
And a tool left to its own devices is pretty useless.
So we've got to learn to use it wisely.
So all we need to do,
And I didn't believe this when I came across it.
It resonated,
But there must be more to it than this,
But there isn't.
It's simply to be here and feel what's happening.
That's it,
That's the end of it.
If you want more,
You have to go elsewhere.
Because you're getting it here.
And for me,
When I started to see,
It was actually,
Eventually,
It was a relief,
Because I was trying to work it out.
That intuitive awareness,
That presence,
That peacefulness it's talking about.
Is the ever-present still.
It's not even a stage,
But we have to use words.
Its ever-present.
That's actually.
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What you are,
That's what's called the true nature in Buddhism.
It's not mystical.
It's not some high fluting cosmic experience that you get when you're doing your 100,
000 prostrations or something.
I'm not knocking prostrations.
It's not what it's about.
It's our birthright.
It's there from day one.
Some things remain the same from day one.
From the age of five.
This presence was here.
It's that same presence.
The contents have changed.
What appears in this presence has changed.
If you look at the word presence,
It's pre-sense.
It's no accident.
Didn't just pick it out the hat.
It's prior to the census.
But we have so.
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Intoxicated with thinking.
To be honest,
That's where the attention goes.
And it tends to be a gradual revealing of this intuitive awareness.
Don't look for the big bang.
Let's do exactly what.
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It suggested.
Take a couple of deep breaths.
Don't try to change or alter or transcend.
We treat every experience the same.
Sadness,
Fear,
Loneliness,
Your thoughts and bodily sensations.
Trying will not help you here.
It will hinder you.
So relax.
We experience what's already here.
Not trying to feel something that isn't here.
What's happening right now?
What's going on?
We can feel the end of the out-breath.
Their mind's overly busy.
Really feel the end,
That natural letting go.
Just checking that you're not tensing.
Try to achieve something.
Trying produces tension.
Where is the attention?
Just feel the breath.
Or listen to the birds of the traffic.
Just feeling,
Just hearing.
Just seeing.
What do I need to do?
And notice the thoughts.
Okay,
You can bring this session to an end.
Open your eyes if they're closed.
Have a little stretch.
And have a good day.
Bye-bye.
