The Treasure That Is Already Here
El tesoro que ya está aquí
An invitation to notice that peace, acceptance, and what you most deeply seek may already be quietly present in this moment.
The Treasure That Is Already Here
The more common view on meditation, what's more understandable by the mind, is that we do something and then it has an effect, makes some changes, and we get somewhere.
Something happens and there's a kind of process about it, and on a level that is true.
It does have that kind of effect.
But it's a little paradoxical in that the truest, deepest aspects of it have nothing to do with changes or process or effect.
It's just about something that can only be put in words metaphorically:
seeing what is already here, or remembering your true nature, or having the veil of illusions drop or dissolve.
But even that points to a kind of process or change.
Opening to a possibility
So we can start by allowing not an assumption, but a possibility that what you're looking for, what is needed, meditation itself is already happening.
Peace is already happening.
Absolute total satisfaction is already happening.
And don't think of this.
Don't debate internally with it as some kind of truth.
Just consider it a possibility.
An exploration.
What if that treasure chest that I'm looking for, as has been said before, what if it truly is here?
How could it be?
How is that possible?
But not as a thought experiment.
A curiosity experiment, to look: what is it that's here?
What's happening right now that this could be pointing to?
In spite of what the mind is doing,
in spite of the body and the sensations, the struggles, the challenges of life.
What if at the heart of that, in some sense, at a depth,
it's not that far away?
Falling into the invitation
As you contemplate this, let it be an invitation,
an opening,
an openness of falling into, allowing.
Like that image from the Sistine Chapel:
Divinity and Humanity, God and Adam touching, almost touching.
The sign is that it's quiet.
A whisper.
It's not in a part of experience.
It's not in the body.
Not disturbed by thought.
It's what contains the background and the foreground, all sensations and pains and pleasures.
You might at first sense it as a substance, an unusual something, a different flavor.
It will be very familiar as well.
Every moment there has been joy.
Every moment there has been well-being, satisfaction.
All of those moments in our lives have just been the closeness, the intimacy with what I'm pointing to, which is always here.
Seeing through the mind
When we look from the mind, through the mind, it gets veiled.
Mind is like a filter that makes it invisible.
The seeing that is beingness or consciousness,
that which can know the mind,
that which can recognize the thought,
recognizes the breath, colors, sensations, sounds.
Not with names, just the direct knowing.
The tasting.
That by which tastes, sounds, and sensations are known has no location.
As if the sound knows itself.
The sensation tastes itself.
It is complete in itself.
The thought thinks itself.
It's born out of nowhere,
it's complete in its appearance,
and joyfully disappears onto the next.
Acceptance is already happening
No need to strive or know anything.
Allowing is already happening.
Accepting of what is, is already happening.
In fact, it's impossible to reject what is happening.
It can only be an illusion of rejection.
The idea of rejection.
The idea of not allowing.
And that rejection thought is fully accepted.
The not-allowing thought, the emotion, is fully allowed.
That experience of saying no to the moment, no to what is, resisting,
is experienced in an absolute total yes.
An unstoppable yes.
Nothing can be done to stop the universal yes to this moment.
It's happening through you, as you, through everything, as everything.
Pure acceptance.
Everything comes and goes
The sound appears, it is there, nothing can be done to stop it.
When a thought appears, it is there.
It only goes on its own, and it most certainly will.
Everything comes and goes.
As it passes, as it comes, it is fully known and accepted in absolute totality.
All resistances, all pains, all sensations of struggle and discomfort.
Absolutely, totally accepted.
Knowing of itself.
Knowing of the pain and knowing of the resistance is the absolute acceptance of it.
Tasting it fully.
The mind might react, but awareness fully tastes the pain and the reaction in the mind.
Fully accepted, totally.
And in this total acceptance is freedom.
Freedom from struggle.
The struggle in mind and body can come and go,
but it is no longer "I struggle."
Resting as awareness
As the sounds come and go,
as the breath comes and goes,
colors and shapes come and go,
notice how everything moves and changes permanently,
and parts slowly and fast.
Let all mind and body and thoughts, sensations,
even the sense of the subject here, located,
which is just a subtle sensation,
just let all of that come and go.
Formless consciousness itself.
The groundless ground.
Silent knowing.
All-sensing presence.
This.