This week I'm getting my wisdom teeth out, and so I'm using that as an excuse to share a different
type of video with you. If you are someone seeking insight into non duality or no self,
here are the most critical meditation instructions I have for you. These pointing out instructions
are what I wish I had when I first started my meditation journey towards the nature of mind.
These are instructions I've collected over time that I've found particularly helpful. Insight is
available now, and it's available for everyone. So if you're struggling with how to practice no
self or non duality, this video is for you. For this instruction I'm already assuming that you
have figured out a good and alert meditation posture that works for you. I've done a video
all about posture so I'll link that here. Here we go. Don't do anything. Actually don't do anything.
Don't try to meditate or alter anything in any moment. Don't try to do nothing
either. This is being. Sustained, the selfless nature of mind is self-evident.
Relax many times in this way of giving up effort and preconceived notions. Do this again and again
and awareness will grow to include all sensations and being. Eventually there will only be
present non dual awareness. Eventually you'll never get lost, even in the subtlest of
thoughts. If it's not non dual then there are subtle concepts. Holding a conceptual position
is the obscuration of the nature of mind. The sensation of thoughts, knowing them and
being aware of them as an experience, is not excluded from the nature of mind, however,
being unknowingly convinced of and caught up in thoughts is the sensation of self. But don't seek
a meditative state either, this is a concept and just another form of altering. What is
your present experience in awareness. Do not alter your present being even a fraction. Consciousness
is already free of self. Yourself can't make this happen. It does not need to be a drawn out
or a hard process. The nature of mind is on the surface of experience and can be glimpsed
instantly. Usually only glimpsed for a short moment before you get completely distracted again.
It can be useful to identify the different ways in which we become distracted. Distraction can
manifest in many different forms. Overt worldly thoughts and concepts about past and future,
concepts about adjusting the current practice or altering what already is, very subtle concepts of
distraction that imply a self and with a residue quality of someone suspended in subtle doing,
blissful states achieved by blocking thoughts. This is a meditative state that is nice but not
truly all-encompassing and open. Don't mistake these states for Dzogchen. Develop the mindfulness
to not get lost in distraction. What is left is the formless recognition, as instructed in this
text. Don't go to the mind to figure it out. The distance between you and contentment is thought.
Sustained non-altering as a practice, undistracted non-meditation. How to let be? Untrain control.
Presence is automatic, so obscuration really must be a deeply ingrained habit overriding the
non-dual awareness, again and again. Train in calm abiding to recognize this habit,
and naturally illuminate non-duality. No reference point. It's not something you ever grasp,
it's completely open, limitless, naked experience, with no one. When practice is going good
don't stop, or you might come back to practice and try to recreate this previous insight.
This would be a contrived practice. We need to get really confident in the power of non-doing.
Give up the assumption of control and the doer. What is it to exist without this grasping?
If there is no self is the world still there? Yes, and it's freer. The essence of meditation
is awareness. The training is in non-doing. Sit down and don't do. Notice you're hopelessly lost
in the habit of doing. The moment you recognize this, that is enough, that is awareness. Don't
adjust to block thoughts because that's just more doing. Be the continuity of awareness beneath the
ever-changing impermanent sensations. Give up the idea that there is something to do
in meditation. Remain in non-conceptual awareness. There is no problem to solve, don't hop on the
train of thought, be bold and try to rest simply without any reference point. Don't go to the mind
and its concepts, no reification. The sense of self is what it feels like to be distracted,
to be thinking and not know that you're thinking. You can discern the moment you've clicked into
this habit of being distracted and let go again. Another way of pointing it out. Investigate and
explore, become clear that sensations are everything, notice that they are temporary,
changing, and that they're all there actually is. Be with that. I've been meditating for six
years now and I've come across many different meditation instructions and techniques that
attempt to enable one to recognize the selfless nature of consciousness. What
you may call non-duality or no self. I hope these notes or insights can be of some use to you. Feel
free to leave a comment if you have any question, and I would love to hear what insights have been
dramatic in taking you forward on your meditation journey. As always, thank you for watching. If you
want to take part in a more personal part of my journey feel free to support me on Patreon. I'll
be sharing updates with how I survive with my wisdom teeth. Until next week, thank you!