Your most brilliant breakthroughs will never happen while you are forcing yourself to think.
There is a massive difference between thinking about peace or truth or reality and actually feeling it.
One is just the map.
And other is the destination itself.
In this session we are stepping out of the analytical mind,
The part that calculates worries and plans.
And dropping straight into the quiet power of direct intuitive knowing.
The one that is responsible for your brilliant breakthroughs.
When we recorded this session live,
The transformation in the room was palpable.
And my hope is that as you listen,
You feel that exact same shift in yourself too.
So settle into a comfortable space.
Close your eyes.
And let's begin.
Ensure that there is a gentle smile on your face.
That there is rest in your body.
That you are recognizing.
That you are recognizing.
The sensations of your body.
And as you breathe in,
See if you can breathe in like a wave rising from the soles of your feet.
To the top of your head.
And you can feel the sensations of your breathing as if a wave is rising from the lower part of your body to the top.
Top of the head.
And as you breathe out see if the wave is descending.
From the top of the head to the lower parts of your body.
In one continuous rhythmic pattern.
Movement in-breath,
Out-breath,
Waving,
Wave out.
Involving your whole body with breathing.
The whole body is breathing in and the whole body is breathing out.
We win.
And wave out.
Continue to Feel this sensation of your breath fully.
Include the whole body in this awareness of breathing.
Do not leave anything out.
The sensation of your belly.
Sensation.
In your heart region.
Even the sensation around your shoulders as they rise and fall gently.
The sensations in and around your nose.
And you may even be able to Follow the path of your breath as it takes a u-turn in your nose.
And?
Literally takes a u-turn from your in your nose trail.
So be.
.
.
Completely.
Curious about this sensation of breathing.
And now?
Rather than seeing breathing.
From.
Zooming into sensations in nose or heart or belly.
See how you can also see the breathing.
Experience the same breath in a holistic manner as if the whole Body is breathing in and the whole body is breathing out.
For example,
You could visualize that the breath is entering your body from the front.
So as you breathe in,
The air is entering your body.
From the front of your body.
And as you breathe out,
The same air is leaving your body.
And you can visualize that the breath is leaving your body.
From the behind,
From the backside of your body.
Again you are visualizing from two separate lenses,
In-breath from front and out-breath from the back.
Just do five cycles of visualizing breathing like this from the air in the front and air in the back.
Breathe in and breathe out,
Whole body involved.
And when you are ready you let go of that visualization and just be with your breath holistically without any visualization.
Intuitively be one with your breath.
I would like you to recognize that in both activities when you are visualizing the breath from front and leaving the back or wave like visualization.
You were doing that activity with the use of your own awareness.
But that awareness was fragmented.
Through the lens of that particular visualization.
And in your breath meditation there came a time where you were also able to experience the same breath in a holistic manner.
Without fragmenting awareness's experience and just having one unified experience.
So today we will talk about experientially understand the awareness's ability.
To conceptualize,
To think.
R.
To intuitively know.
So continue to smile and continue to sit in a relaxed posture.
In our meditation there is nothing to do.
You allow your awareness to remain open.
You listen and let the awareness be the judge.
Time to time we engage in conceptual thinking in these meditations.
And time to time we allow the awareness to intuitively know.
To assess the knowledge,
To assess the experience.
So we use both faculties of your awareness of our awareness to understand the nature of reality.
We use meditation in a specific way.
Manna mainly and only to understand the reality.
And to live the reality.
To be united with reality.
And this merging into reality merging into truth.
We put it at higher pedestal.
And there is a reason why we do that.
So continue to sit openly.
Allow your awareness to remain unbound.
Allow the conceptual thinking to come in as waves.
Allow it to narrow down the focus of awareness on that particular topic for a moment or two.
And then,
Let go.
Just let go so you can remain wide open sky like awareness.
That awareness that is sky-like.
Can be full of intuitive knowing.
The awareness that is narrow focusing on a particular topic.
Gang?
Come to a conclusion through conceptual thinking.
Thinking that is Using.
Language or Symbols Narrative that is conceptual thinking and awareness can do that.
In fact,
It does that in your waking hours all the time.
But awareness can also remain open.
Still brilliantly wise.
Just because it's open and not focusing on one topic doesn't mean it loses its innate wisdom.
In fact,
It needs the reality.
With open arm still shining brightly.
See you the meditator.
Today will intimately know.
Display of your awareness.
It is an essential stage.
In your maturing of your own awakening.
So continue to smile and visualize that you are sitting.
In a beautiful church.
With beautiful stained glass.
Stained glasses everywhere.
The most beautiful chapel I have seen was Saint Chapel in Paris.
All the walls.
Are made of nothing but stained glasses everywhere.
Allow in your visualization.
You focusing on the shapes.
The Colors the care and the controls that the artist helped pour their life in it.
You are analyzing.
The stories of Jesus and how beautifully the stained glass is displaying it as if it is real in front of your eyes.
And you have spent half an hour marveling.
At The Crafts.
At the light.
At the stories and at the symbols.
A very pleasant conceptual thinking.
A happy conceptual thinking.
Example.
Now imagine.
You are allowing the light.
Whole light without breaking.
And seeing the whole of the stained glass.
Not fragmenting green,
Yellow,
Red,
Green.
And allowing the light.
The whole light is seen,
Observed and felt with an open embrace.
Still in the same chapel.
But now you are sitting with open awareness.
No particular figure a part of Jesus' story.
Is occupying your brain,
Your mind or your heart.
As if you have made yourself available to Jesus's love itself.
To the love of divinity of that place itself.
You are not particularly interested in a story.
A net sense of peace.
Is different from you analyzing a story.
Clear example of how intuitive knowingness works against conceptual thinking.
Both are pleasant experiences,
However,
Distinctly different in quality,
And how you feel it.
So continue to smile as you are.
Understanding is layer by layer.
And see how in your own meditation you are using conceptual thinking right now and.
.
.
Intuitive knowing,
The wide-open awareness.
Time to time you are dipping in and out through both of your awareness's faculty.
Both faculties are used.
Seamlessly.
You can narrow as in you can zoom into.
You can focus or you can zoom out,
You can defocus and be available to the whole of the light.
Continue to smile and do not wait for a second conclusion in this meditation.
You will see that we will deepen our understanding,
Our experiential knowing of these phenomenon.
Of how your mind and your awareness works.
Nothing else.
Now did you notice that when you are conceptually thinking or knowing intuitively in a wide-open awareness sense.
The whole phenomenon.
Is taking place in one field.
It is the awareness that narrows its focus and it is the awareness that widens its focus.
When you're thinking.
Conceptually,
You often use language,
Symbols,
Mathematics concepts memory.
But when you see it as wide open awareness The awareness itself knows the pattern.
In itself.
And this recognition of patterns if I can call it patterns.
This recognition.
Is instantaneous.
It cannot be broken down into symbols and language.
For example,
If I were to tell you a joke.
Just before the punch line.
Your conceptual mind is active.
You are visualizing a story.
You are anticipating the ending.
All of this is conceptual.
It has symbols and language.
And then comes a punchline.
Still,
Language and symbols.
And then there comes laughter.
Still,
Expression,
Language.
A symbolic exchange.
But what happened in between the punchline and the laughter?
Was,
Your awareness recognizing the pattern in a holistic manner.
And that understanding that happens instantaneously.
Beyond time.
That understanding cannot be expressed.
In symbols and in languages.
That has to remain beyond concepts.
And this happens every day to us.
We dip in and out.
But largely we remain in conceptual thinking mode.
And that is tiring.
That doesn't give your nervous system a reset,
A break.
The peace and quiet of wide open awareness verses.
Efforting attempting of conceptual thinking.
So continue to smile as you right now let go of conceptual thinking.
And allow your awareness to become skylight.
Allow your awareness to fill the room you are in.
As if your body has occupied the whole space of the room.
And now you let go of the symbol called body.
And just occupy the symbol called space.
And see how you can go in and out.
Of your knowing of space.
Seemingly outside of your body.
And something that is inside of your body seemingly inside of your body such as heart or the sensation of your face.
Face,
And the space in the room.
Go back and forth.
And this space in their room.
One is so-called inside of your body and one is so-called outside of your body.
Yet taking place in same field of awareness.
And see how conceptual thinking and intuitive knowing took place just there in that example.
And how amazing it is that nobody has ever explained.
The very faculty with which we experience everything,
Know,
Analyze everything.
Was taken for granted so much so i.
E.
It was considered not important enough for us to learn about.
A voice of a culture too.
Oblivion about.
Peace.
Hard to tell.
But letting go of that and now sitting only as the space of awareness.
Beyond the duality of inside and outside.
Just a space-like presence.
Spontaneously here.
Always rooted in NOW.
Timelessly present.
Awareness can never be present in past.
Or in future.
Awareness.
Is only here.
And only now.
And thus it occupies all the past,
Here's and now.
And all the future he is announced.
Instantaneously.
Timelessly.
And beyond space.
The singularity of awareness.
Can only be understood in your experience.
When you remain available.
Is vast open awareness,
You intuitively know this singularity.
And no amount of language or symbols will be able to explain it.
So continue to smile as you deepen your understanding of this.
Beautiful feel-like awareness.
Which is living.
An expression of itself in the form of your physical and mental identity.
You call yourself with a name.
With a relationship with status.
You have assigned status about your body,
Your relationship,
Your conditions,
Your situations,
Your nationality,
Your gender.
All of those are symbols.
And awareness can play with those symbols but see clearly that they are conceptual symbols.
Those identities are important for you to navigate.
You to navigate this particular expression of awareness that you are.
Yet they are not inherent.
They are conceptual,
Temporary,
Symbolic.
See if you can see that clearly.
And that scene clearly is not conceptual.
Is intuitive knowing.
And whenever you have flash of intuitive knowing Do not rush.
To figure it out conceptually with symbols and language.
The main mistake we make is when we have glimpse when we have direct experience of wide open intuitive knowing We rush to write a thesis about it.
We are so in love with our conceptual thinking.
We think we will derive some benefit.
By conceptually lining it out.
See if you can let go of that impulse more and more.
So that you can control that impulse.
So that you can sit in.
Intuitive knowing,
More and more.
So that you can allow your nervousness to reset.
Quickly.
Totally.
Because that is what happens when you sit.
And intuitive knowing.
And if this topic feels heavy.
See that it is again a conceptual thinking about the topic.
That makes it heavy.
But deep down the understanding of this is always effortless.
Remain completely available.
For last 5 minutes of this meditation.
Completely available to your intuitive knowing.
As we explore this last thought experiment.
Imagine that you are sitting.
In a starry night with a beautiful,
Powerful telescope.
And as you look through the telescope you see distant star and planets.
With clarity.
And you are in all.
You who explore distant objects.
For half an hour.
And now your eyes are tired.
And you have put the telescope on side.
You are happy.
And you keep your eyes open.
And you are looking at the whole starry light.
Filled sky.
The whole sky.
Is available to you.
You have even stopped marvelling that how many objects are seen and how many objects are not seen by your naked eyes.
And all that is available for you to know.
And all that that is unknowable.
Is present to you.
All at once.
And you are completely OK with.
Knowables and unknowables.
They are seamlessly one for you.
And you have merged.
With this dark,
Starry,
Light-filled sky.
That your internal shape is the sky-likeness.
The night is dark,
You can't see your body,
Even if you tried.
And in that darkness.
All has become one.
And you accept.
That I can use telescope too.
Focus on a particular object.
Time to time,
And I may not think or do about the reality.
From a narrow perspective.
Then I am also equally OK.
With knowing that I can't know everything.
Through my conceptual mind.
Through my telescope,
I can only see one object at a time.
And you are completely OK.
With not knowing through conceptual thinking.
So sit in the light of this intuitive knowing.
See how you have let go of the impulse to define everything through language and symbols.
See how your awareness has recognized the pattern.
See how you have learnt about intuitive knowing through meditation.
Conceptual thinking.
To know it totally,
You have done it.
Only.
DOOM Free your mind from conceptual thinking time to time.
We have taken this essential step.
And see how you this expression of awareness.
Has beautifully navigated this.
See how you recognize the perfection in this.
Marvel at the nature of this perfection and completeness.
That you instantaneously,
Spontaneously are.
What more could we ask for?
When you are already the enjoyer,
The owner,
The lover of this VOTE MORE!
What can be better than this?
But what can be more miraculous than this?
What can be different from this?
Away or apart from this.
So sit in the glow of this intuitive knowing of your own nature in all its beauty.
Remember the stained glass metaphor.
You can choose to see a color on a stained glass or you can allow then lie.
Completely overtaped.
Breathing naturally,
Normally.
Like an open sky breathing in and out.
In itself.
Of itself.
Bye,
So.
Few more breaths.
Dipping in and out of concepts.
And intuition.
Sometimes blurry the edge between the concepts and intuition.
Letting go of the impulse to organise everything neatly in language and symbols.
Becoming OK with unknowables.
And yet,
Knowing yourself fully.
Continue to smile.
Continue to smile as you breathe.
Become okay with opening your eyes and allowing the world of concepts,
Colors and contours to flood in.
You can make sense of reality now with a different lens.
It's a macho perspective.
Thank you so much for exploring this with me.
Allowing me the space in your space.
Allowing me to be one with your wisdom.
Welcoming these words as your words.
Seeing this duality Ending.
Having glimpses of us all being one.
And I am grateful for this experience.
And your presence.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
