Here's one of my favourite techniques or enquiries, to recognise the non-dual
nature of conscious experience. Normally we feel separate to that which occurs in our experience,
but if it's in our experience of course on an experiential level, it's just an extension
of our own intimate private reality. Of our being. This is the great insight in meditation,
but it's very hard to recognise. We need some good pointers to recognise it,
because not many people out there in the world talk about it on a day-to-day basis do they.
It's got great benefit though, so that's what we're doing here. So one of the tricky trappings
of non-duality to get caught in is trying to understand it and over-conceptualising it.
It's good to have a good understanding of it, because otherwise those thoughts just keep rising
to the surface. And it's possible to get your head around it in a very, in a way that makes sense.
But ultimately whatever understandings we have need to be let go in the actual practice
of resting and being, or recognizing the nature of experience. It's experiential,
it's not conceptual. If you have trust, you have faith, you're a confident practitioner you
actually don't need a conceptual understanding at all. You can just know this thing as an
experience and that can guide you. Here's one of the most necessary ways I need to practice this.
Become still, stillness always helps us identify our experience. Normally there's too much movement
and distraction going on, that makes it very hard to become aware of anything. We can think
of meditation as becoming aware, becoming present. More present of what is here now. And we just rest
in that stillness, that openness. with whatever is occurring. Could be thoughts, could be nothing, or
it could be idle sensations changing and shifting. Just rest in the stillness of whatever's there,
and it may seem unremarkable at first. I must say, if we can do even just what we've done so far in
brief moments many times that is an excellent meditation, that's the ultimate way to practice.
But sometimes what we can find ourselves thinking after a short little while is,
this doesn't seem remarkable, I don't feel like I'm experiencing anything, I still feel
separate from my experience, I still feel like a substantial self. So the little
kind of mantra or inquiry we're going to use throughout this meditation, as we're resting
in that stillness is "it's not thinking", the experience of non-duality is not thinking. It
can involve thinking but the recognised experience of non-duality, it's not conceptual thinking. It's
resting in the experience of whatever is. So as we rest in that stillness, allowing whatever is,
literally allowing whatever is, if we find ourselves lost in a thought convinced of a
story that there's something to figure out, we can just remind ourselves we can tell ourselves
it's not thinking. The thing we're trying to recognize, it's not thinking. Let go of being
convinced there's something to do or something to figure out, and just rest again. Thoughts come,
it's not thinking, resting in whatever is. Nice open awareness, relaxed. Your mind might say,
is this it. It's not thinking. And that's a nice small little, that's a little technique or inquiry
you can use. Give that a practice. I think a lot of the times we expect that there's one access way
into the nature of consciousness, into discovering non-duality. But we can understand
that conceptually, everything is our experience. So depending on all the different conceptual ways
we cut up this fullness and wholeness of who and what we are, there's millions of different
ways to access it. Every experience we have of non-duality adds to our future embodiment of
non-duality. Every moment there's a good one. So, we don't need to figure out the way to meditate.
We just need to get in, get in there and experience more and more, have heaps of moments of
it. So whatever works today works today. I'll just leave us with that mantra, whatever works today.
Your life mantra for today is whatever works today, and your meditation mantra is it's not
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