Hello,
This is William Cooper.
I hope you're doing well.
Welcome to Awakening Together.
Today,
Yes,
I think I'm going to talk a little bit more,
But we're going to do meditation really.
Let's do this first.
Tighten your fist.
We did this before at one of the earlier podcasts.
Just tighten your right fist really tight in your form,
Real tight in your right arm,
Really tight,
Tight,
Tight,
Tight,
Tight,
Tight,
And let it go.
Feel that?
You feel a mixture of kind of relief and calmness.
Your whole body starts to calm.
And the tension.
It's a mix between feeling very good and tension leaving.
Tension's a little bit like that sometimes.
At the core of meditation,
You,
Awareness,
Which is you,
And awareness is happiness,
By the way.
Your being is happy,
Love,
Peace,
Just as we talked about before.
But imagine in meditation,
Looking at the world from there,
You're just awareness aware of everything else.
And as you're aware of everything else,
It slowly melts away.
So what's the outcome of all this?
Well,
Once enough melts away,
All that there is left is mainly awareness without the blocks and the barriers.
By blocks and barriers,
I mean thoughts and emotions,
Psychological thoughts and emotions,
And the resulting tensions in your body.
Psychological thoughts and emotions only happen when they have tension underneath them,
Which only happens when you're separated from yourself.
It's a warning sign,
A sign of a bad state of affairs.
If you're thinking and thinking and feeling and feeling and needing to exercise to get rid of the stress or watch TV or drink,
Warning signs.
Red,
Flashing,
Warning signs.
Be careful,
You're cut off from yourself.
Meditation reverses that because the end product is you let everything go.
It melts away simply by you not getting involved in it,
Feeling it,
Not repressing it,
Letting it run its course,
And then it discharges itself automatically.
It bleeds out of your system,
And when it's totally gone,
All there's left is light,
The light of you,
The love of you.
When you don't have barriers,
You connect to everything around you.
You feel the love of a tree.
You feel the bliss of your desk when you touch it.
Because remember,
All of creation is made of the same God stuff.
It's made of bliss,
Love,
And peace.
It's just congealed down into molecules,
Which then turn into wood and trees and dogs and cats and parrots.
So when you're not blocked,
There's a direct connection,
And you feel that peace and love and radiance.
You are peace and love and radiance,
And you are connected to peace and love and radiance all around you.
When you walk,
You feel light coming up through your feet,
Because you're connected to that which you're walking on.
And it's all light,
So you feel it coming up from the ground.
You feel it as you look around and connect to everything around you.
So after some time,
When you've been successful at meditation and all these barriers have melted away,
You don't really have to meditate anymore,
Because it was simply a tool to help melt the blocks.
Once the blocks are melted,
You're just connecting to everything very deeply,
So your life is one of connection and happiness.
You are happiness,
And everything that you connect to is happiness.
So that's what our goal is.
That's where we're going.
Now let's do a little meditation together and try it out for size.
Remember,
This is a process.
It doesn't happen overnight,
But we've got to start somewhere,
Right?
So let's do it for three minutes.
Remember,
The awakening meditation,
The one that melts all these barriers away,
Is performed like this.
You are the awareness,
So you just sit and watch everything.
You hear everything,
You feel everything,
But you don't get involved in anything.
You have your eyes closed,
You don't try to relax or do anything.
You just let it run its course.
If you're not relaxed,
You're not relaxed.
Relaxation has nothing to do with meditation,
Contrary to what you may have heard.
It's a product of meditation,
Because as everything melts away,
Of course you're more relaxed.
But you don't try to be relaxed.
That's only when you're trying to counteract something,
Which is really not what we're after.
That's a little bit of a middle ground.
It's helpful,
But it won't bring you to awakening,
Because it's simply counteracting attention without dissolving the tension.
Because you're tense,
You do a relaxing meditation to help your body relax,
But the next day,
The underlying reason for the tension is still there,
So you've got to do that kind of meditation again and again and again.
That's not what we're after.
Okay,
So let's do this awakening meditation.
In a moment,
You just close your eyes,
We'll do it for three minutes,
And just watch,
Be aware,
Feel everything that's going on without trying to control it or just simply be aware of it.
Here we go,
Close your eyes and let's meditate.
Okay.
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