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Each seeker receives ultimately the same understanding. Listening is sufficient. Listening to this understanding leads to awakening of the ultimate truth, i.e. Teichgian, the light wisdom. It is the same Teichgian that Sershri transmits on the Magia of Awakening workshop. The magic of awakening is a separation based on practical exercises leading to the experience of the jade. It focuses on three areas. First, life in the present moment. Second, the experience of knowing oneself. Third, the touch of the state of the realized jade. Sershri is the founder of the Teich Gyan Foundation. His spiritual search began in childhood. He was introduced to many schools, teachers, to learn many meditation techniques, philosophical systems and practices.
However, none of them satisfied him. Everyone felt a lack of fire. The growing desire to devote time to seeking truth led him to resign from the position of lecturer. Sershri began a long period of isolation contemplating the mystery of life, which ended with achieving the ultimate truth. He understood that the lack of understanding is a lost cause on all the paths leading to truth. Sershri has conducted over a thousand lectures, both on the subject of truth and the most diverse practical aspects of life. He has an extraordinary, astounding ability to present the most subtle nuances in a simple, common language. The highest aspects of truth are embedded in funny stories and analogies that provoke contemplation.
Sershri is a spiritual master whose key teaching is that all the paths leading to truth begin differently and end in the same way, with understanding. Everything is a game of beliefs. Understanding is everything. This understanding is complete in itself. In this exercise it is very important to understand where your attention is going. So, pay attention to your attention. This is the exercise. Attention to attention. Attention to attention is the greatest of meditation. Understand where your attention is going. Where is your attention turned away? Where does the mind stay? Where does the mind go if it turns away? Why does the mind stick to something and why does the mind move away from it to something else?
What causes the attention to shift? What is it that the mind listens to, or what the mind sees, or what the mind says, what causes the attention to move? Not necessarily the mind's attention or the consciousness, but even the movement from one thing to another. What happens when there is greater engagement? The key question is what caused the attention to move? So, the exercise is like this. For the next 10 minutes, notice your attention. Allow your attention to move around different objects in your home or outside, wherever you are. And notice where your attention is going. Just notice your attention. What kind of nature does your attention have?
Jakiej jakości jest twoja uwaga? Zauważaj, co odwraca twoją uwagę. Zauważ, kiedy zacinasz się na czymś. Zauważ naturę swojej uwagi. Zacznij zwracać uwagę na uwagę. To jest bardzo ważne, żeby przez najbliższe 10 minut się nie zdrzemnąć, powrócić do robienia określonych czynności. It is better that these activities are not as tiring as reading a book. An activity such as walking and observing objects in your home will help in the exercise. An activity such as moving and noting things in your home is also an activity that can help. Notice nature, note down your office, you can do any action, Because during these 10 minutes we want to have different experiences that we will share when you come back Please pay attention to this if you get involved or get lost down your thoughts and if you get lost then you can carefully draw your attention back to the fact that I will be drawing my attention So let me see how my attention looks like and where it goes.
What things are attracting my attention? What happens when attention is drawn to one thing more than to another? Just pay attention to nature and its attention. Notice the way you approach things. Notice what makes you drift, what makes you focus, what helps you stop, and what helps you move away. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Czy ktoś już jest? Mi się wróciło po 10 minutach. To może ja zacznę. Moja uwaga biega tak jak małpa. Szuka wrażeń. I noticed that I am often in the past, then in the future, not being in the present.
It is difficult to train this attention to be in one place and in the present happiness, in what is now. It is always attracted to something, it always looks for some experiences, impressions. But you know what's great? That you're talking about it with such joy. Because in this exercise it was about just watching without any judgment what the nature of attention is. And what you did is exactly focusing on attention, on watching at the moment what it is like without judging with joy. Nature of the I am very glad to have done this exercise. I would like to add something to this, because this is a surprise of the whole exercise, which Sergei doesn't actually betray, but everyone can convince himself.
The moment the attention is observed and it moves where it wants, the mind jumps, runs, it doesn't matter what the mind does. Who is watching? Who is watching? It is clear that I am not the mind, I am not my attention, I am not what I am... Because I am watching it. If the attention moved into the future or the past, or visited a friend, or whatever happened to the attention, it is an object in this open, pure space of consciousness. So I am not this object, it is not me, it is not me. I am the space of consciousness in which this movement of attention occurs.
So, every time we notice a movement of attention, we are in the so-called natural state or we are enlightened, because we are a pure space of consciousness. We have no form, no shape, no smell, no sound, no characteristics. Look how the attention moves and, for example, follows the sound. The sound is far or close, but the space in which this sound is noted or known is everywhere. I am everywhere. And now I am this space. Not sound, because I can observe sound, but space. And now I am the space in which the attention moves. To the past, to the future, to the left, to the right, it doesn't matter where.
But every time it's like a surprise. That's why, exactly as you Ania say, as Marcin says, the exercise was done perfectly, because there is no assessment in it. There is no such thing as, oh, I regret that my mind is like that, why this mind does not calm down, damn, what's wrong with me, how much more do I have? These are all thoughts, and these thoughts are also objects in consciousness. So, if you are a pure field of consciousness, in which without any assessment this attention moves, then this is a natural state. There are animals in such a state, there are birds, trees, cats, dogs in such a state.
They also have no preference to where this attention will go. We had here, I will return to my exercise, because we managed to cut the salad and eat it. And of course, in addition, we had cats here who also wanted to eat something. And they moved the bowls all over the kitchen, because they were in demand, they were invited. Some of the comments were about tastes, some about cats, some about... I took my headphones off, of course, because it's also a bit awkward in relation to the love of my life, my beloved husband, that I eat breakfast with him, dinner and I still deal with other things, but he doesn't have such a concept.
He says that there is something wrong with it. He doesn't have it. Even if he had such a concept, he wouldn't believe it. All the freedom is that thoughts come and go, they do what they want and nobody cares about them, nobody believes in them. You have emphasized the whole perfection of this exercise, that we just know the nature of the mind, but we are not the mind. So what is the mind? Is it active? Is it passive? Is it a monkey? Is it not a monkey? It's not that important. Because if I not the mind the mind is just some tool that happens in the consciousness that is in me then there no need blame the mind there is no need to be a bitch there is no need to think about fixing the mind because if it is not mine, then what does it matter to me?
What does the mind of a Nigerian in China matter to me? And this is freedom. The mind does what it wants, and I am the consciousness in which this movement of attention occurs. Okay, I will close now and now you can say what you think about this exercise. I was absolutely delighted with Martin's relationship and that he told me about it with such joy, which was such a witness for me that he is indeed a prisoner at the moment. I observe it from the observer's perspective. I see that I am not always able to do it. Sometimes I feel like a bee, as you said, Kasia.
So, it's wonderful. I made myself a tea. I looked at the birds. A wonderful bird was sitting on the top of a big squirrel. I was watching it. It's always wonderful how the consciousness goes in some direction, what it stops at, what we come back to in each next session, what is the closest to us now to be recognized or done. I will interrupt you a bit, because it can be useful, it can be helpful. If you have this tendency and you know that you have this tendency to judge and to be a bitch, then first of all, it is nothing new, almost everyone has this tendency, if not everyone, because we were raised and conditioned to be modest and to have a low sense of value.
And we have to demand more from ourselves than we don't know what, just like we were a judge and had some free will. It's normal, but it's also an opportunity, a tendency to punish oneself, to say, oh, why wasn't I careful, why did I tempt him again and went into some story. If such a tendency is well-educated, it's an opportunity to use this tendency. Every time this tendency goes to the top, just use it as a reminder. When you have a feeling that something is wrong with me, just jump to the observer's position right away. Ah, here I have you. Because this is just another mechanical behavior pattern, completely dead, mechanical.
We think it's my heart that says I want to be better, I want to improve. No, the heart doesn't say anything. The heart has no words, no language. It's always the mind. And it's always the mind that wants to fix, that wants not what it is. The mind doesn't want a natural state, it wants something different, something better. So when this tendency is turned on, to be somewhere there, to be a joker for something, then this very mechanical tendency can be a reminder to, oh, now it's time to wake up. Look, again this mechanical pattern has thrown itself out, it has fit in like a cut-out record.
And at this moment, to withdraw and observe this cut out record, this mechanical habit, and there will come a moment when this habit will be ridiculed first, and laughter is an exorcism, and then it will simply stop appearing. I have been completely, for example, oh my gosh, for almost five years I have not had a situation in which there would appear any feeling that I am something that should be changed, improved, repaired, I am not sure if it is a good thing or not. These are ideas that support the ego, but they are completely dead. And when you stop believing in them and recognize them as a pure mechanical mental pattern, they will become a laughing stock at some point.
And then they will just stop appearing. So use it, because it's a nice thing to use. Kasia, I can ask you about one more thing. I remember one situation when we were in India. There was one thing, I remember, after some deeper meditation with Sarshi. I remember that it used to hook you, that it's easy to do meditation when we are alone in our homes, in our comfort space that we create. And when we go to the city, we go with people, different situations appear and here too, and here too, it's just being in the heart and expressing yourself from this perspective. I remember you once asked me that you were afraid that you might be replaced by someone else, someone's concept on your subject or something like that.
I remember that it probably fell off completely from you, right? I don't think you have something like that anymore. How do you look at it now? I don't know if you understand me well. I don't know if I understand you well, but one thing is for sure. There is no one. There are no people, neither in my environment nor in anyone else's. All of these are just costumes through which thoughts are expressed. Both costumes and thoughts are just another manifestation of the jade. Everything is a manifestation of the jade. So will someone take over me? Will someone manipulate me? Will someone take my brain out?
No, no, let's take it on the side of the video, or you know, some negative, or some, you know, some of that kind. No, no, well, okay. I understand what you mean. For example, you go to a pub and people are fighting and this energy somehow affects you, or some political disputes and they affect you. But again, if you are not there, it is only what happens at the level of consciousness. Now, if there is no assessment that some behaviors are positive and some behaviors are negative, or desirable or undesirable, everything is as it is. There is no preference that it should always be pleasant and never unpleasant, that I should always emanate love and never anger.
In fact, it has nothing to do with it, because there is no such possibility that there will always be a day and never a night, or that there will always be summer and never winter, or that there will always be pleasure and never pain, because they are interdependent from each other. There is no pleasure without pain. There is no definition like that. There is no love without hatred. If there was no hatred, what would you call love? You wouldn't even know what to call it. Everything is dependent on everything else. That's why it is said that the world is unity, it is not divided. The division of the world is due to the fact that we impose a concept, that we call something black and something white.
Generally, all the fears that someone will do something to you, resulting from the assumption that there is still some feeling that there is some you, that somewhere inside, in the stomach or in the head, there is some little man who has free will and who can do something. And if there is no one there, then nothing can happen to anyone. Even if the body dies, cancer, pain, there is still no little man who has done anything wrong. There is only pure consciousness and in this consciousness a dance takes place. The body moves, gets food, goes to work, enters relationships, the body-mind loves, hates, rejoices, saddens, thoughts appear, various, positive, negative.
Everything is part of the manifestation of the Jasm. Everything is this. It is not that there is an angel and a devil here, that there is God and the opposite. Everything is God. Therefore, all the fears that you will get stuck somewhere, as soon as you let go of control and stop controlling and cleansing your mind, someone will use you right away and you will be hurt right away. See how it still stiffens the idea that there is some you and this you can be used in danger and there is someone else who can use it. And of course, externally, at the level of the body, mind, at the level of life, this is how it all can look like.
Children are used, there are criminals, pedophiles. All of this is on the physical level in the dream, it has some kind of purpose. The idea that there is some kind of control and responsibility for this control is an illusion. Because if your body has a tendency to protect itself, to seek support in authorities, to be cautious or to doubt, So, will you let go of this control? Will it continue? All these tendencies will manifest themselves as they always did. There was a nice explanation in the Magical Awakening, probably about the first abduction, that if I'm not a culprit, then it's fine. In that case, I'll go out on the street, I'll rape everyone, I'll do what I want, I'll take drugs, etc.
I remember a boy in India asking such a question, some English-speaking guy. And then Serfji gave an answer, gave this example, he says, let's say you have a bomb, I'll give you a grenade and I'll show you where the big office building is and I'll tell you that you have 100%, that no one will ever catch you, that they will not put you in prison, no one will recognize you, go and blow up this building and kill those 10,000 people in this building. If you go and do it, nothing will happen to you. Nobody will catch you. Well, you won't go and you won't do it, because you don't have such a tendency, because you haven't been conditioned like that.
This pattern of behavior is not in your body, it's not in your brain. But you will say the same to some Japanese kamikaze or a Muslim murderer, and he will tell you, of course, out of love for his homeland, or some thought that led him there and infected him. So in general regardless of whether you believe that if you let go of control someone will take control over you or you don believe in such a thought there is no such thing as me over whom you could take control There is no one there there are only patterns there are only mechanical habits patterns of behavior So there is nothing to be afraid of no matter what narration or comment happens at the level of the head the body will do what it does Okay girls, tell me Marcin.
If I can say something, quantum physics is very important to me here. Everything is at the same time a wave and a particle. Light is at the same time a particle and a wave. And now it's just a dance, right? That it depends on whether we look at a given substance as a particle or as a wave. So, yes, we don't have control over it, we can't blame ourselves, right? That everything is both a particle and a wave. And in this particle there is a wave, that is, in everything that is physical there is a light, right? But the light is the emanation of what surrounds us, so everything is the same, without evaluation.
Exactly. I heard the idea that everything is a field of probability. And now, when an observer appears who wants to see a particle, he will see a particle. When an observer appears who expects a wave, he will see a wave. The element of consciousness that is an observer influences the whole phenomenon. And it turns out what we are dealing with. But what you have just said is even more interesting in my opinion. Because something that is simultaneously a particle and a wave, something that is simultaneously separated and connected, that is, simultaneously being a separate entity, a unit, an element or a form, and simultaneously a part of the whole.
This is cool, because it closes the whole idea that everything is nothing, that emptiness is a form, And at the same time it opens the idea that emptiness is neither anything nor anything, nor a form, nor a formlessness. I was washing dishes and by the way, my thoughts were running away somewhere there to water, to save water, to the fact that it will be dry and so on. And now I got a little bit into it. And then I let it all go and went to pet the cat. I am a bit confused about what is happening now. Although I am aware that a person would like to exist in such bearable conditions, and not be, for example, chipped and vaccinated, I hope it will not happen.
My question is, will it affect us to the extent that we will not be able to distinguish certain things? So, it's a bit of a bet in all this. What I observe, I observe. I would just add, maybe, see how you sleep at night and something is happening to you, you also completely get into the environment. Everything is so believable. For example, dreams. Almost everyone remembers a dream when the so-called night paralysis, when the body was still so motionless, asleep and someone was chasing us and we tried to escape, we can't escape because our legs are made of cotton and so on. Or any other dreams.
How real is all this, how believable is all this, what a perfection it is in this manifestation, that it seems so real that it is difficult not to react to it emotionally. It's okay that we react to it emotionally. It's okay that our heart is breaking, that someone is being hurt or that they want to take away our freedom. It's all beautiful. It's all part of this beautiful, wonderful manifestation. And the moment this turn is taking place, it's exactly what the Jain wants to experience. The light experiences itself as an individual unit that observes the world and believes in it so uncritically that the world becomes rigid, solid, the walls are rigid, the vaccines are real.
It's all real, solid. It's not a dream that will disappear in a moment, it's a real reality. This is the creative power of light. This is how the spirit of the spirit creates reality, through the act of faith in this reality. There is nothing wrong with it, that this spirit is twisted. Because when the twist is going on, there is really no problem. Jesus, Jesus, how am I supposed to twist? God, I now believe in these vaccines, how am I supposed to stop believing in them? No, the problem only appears when the weight shifts, it flows from these vaccines and now, oh, what now? Oh, what is this?
Is it true or not? Only when you wake up at this awakening Oh for a moment I was so twisted and now I not Hurray I not Oh I here I here and now I not twisted But I was five minutes ago. So what? It was five minutes ago. Five minutes ago doesn't exist anymore, it's a dream, it's been forgotten, it's gone. But we usually have to pay attention, to be afraid that we twisted. I was told that it wasn't 5 minutes, I was involved in this story for 3 weeks. No, it's not true. Every time you go to sleep, you get out of it.
And when you eat something good, you enjoy this coffee or chocolate, you get out of it. There are a lot of moments during the day when we get out of it. And these moments are natural states. These are moments of awakening. And now, instead of worrying about getting involved for so long, So what? There's no more of that. You're not in the right place now. You were yesterday, a week ago, a month ago, it doesn't matter. You're not there now. Now is the time. This moment is now. The more attention you pay to what happened, the more you will be paying attention to what happened.
It's like creating a negative habit. That now I will be paying for how long I was in the wrong place. Ok, so now I train my own mind to twist and then to count even more. So it's like shooting yourself in the foot. Instead of training the mind to recognize the moment of twisting, we train the mind to count us for twisting. And I would also smile at each of these twists and recognize love in them. Love and care. Because what you say is dictated by the desire for love, freedom, such nice qualities of lightness. Yes, we don't want to be enslaved, we don't want to be vaccinated, we don't want to.
And that's it. Just to see that even this is love. Bogusia, would you add something else from your experience? Would you like to? When you can be alone with yourself, or with animals, it is much easier to watch attention. And then I notice where it is focusing, so I have a chance to be an observer. But at work it is very difficult, but I think that the awareness of it is already a step in the right direction. There are many questioners who try to attract our attention and when there is no possibility to turn off e.g. e-mail or Facebook, because there is some important information on those carriers, this attention is spread in different directions and it takes time to do some activities.
I don't know how to get out of it, but maybe something will come up that will tell me what to do. The best way is to take away the importance. Because as soon as you give it a lot of importance, you immediately become a slave to it. If it is very important that my attention doesn't work the way it should, I have to do something about it, it is unacceptable, This importance immediately causes suffering. And such acceptance, Serge always attached a great importance to acceptance, that to start with the fact that it is so now, it means that I want to be clear, at this moment it is okay.
And if it's okay, then there's no problem. If there's no problem, then everything is in the process of change, because change is the only thing that doesn't change, Zmiana zawsze jest zmiana, zmiana jest ciągła. Czyli te rzeczy, uwaga, jak ona będzie funkcjonować, ona się może zmienić na lepsze, ona się może zmienić na gorsze, ale zmieni się na pewno, bez żadnej ingerencji, bez niczego, nic nie trzeba robić, a nas jej tak zmieni. Ale jak przestanie być kulą u nogi, jak przestanie być jakimś straszliwym problemem, to po pierwsze więcej będzie radości, będzie bardziej naturalny stan, to jak się zachowuje uwaga też jest doskonałą manifestacją jaźni. If you fall in love with it, it will stop hurting you.
And if it stops hurting you, you won't even care if it changes or ends. But it will change anyway. I mean, I don't make any rejections if I can't do something. Thanks to that I don't have such stress and I don't get angry that something is not done. I assume that I will do it when I have time, opportunity, space and so on. And the fact that someone else who is doing his tasks can be stressed because of that, that he didn't get what he expected from me, well, it's hard, it's his problem. But also the observation of this can cause some change, some shift and to pay more attention to nutrition or exercise.
Sometimes this body really absolutely surprises me because it would seem that energy is less and less but I have such moments when I really feel like a teenager again when I exercise when I eat properly You just have to devote more time to this attention or it naturally when it does the things that serve it starts to function better It's true, but not everyone has this tendency and not everyone has been so conditioned to give value to health to some extent. If we look at one of the largest enlightened teachers of the previous century, Bob Nisargadatta, Nisargadatta died of a very painful cancer called crani, which he got after, I don't know, 60 years of smoking marijuana.
He knew very well that smoking marijuana would not do him any good, it is not healthy, but he just had this habit and he didn't have a tendency, he wasn't so conditioned to pay attention to the body. He was not interested in exercise, diet, or the body getting used to smoking. Alan Watts, also a well-known, inspiring speaker and philosopher who talked about nonduality, died from alcoholism. So if you have such a tendency to take care of your health, I also have such a tendency, when I was with a man who is twice as old as me, and it was simply a higher necessity to keep him as long as possible in life, it's cool, it's great, it can really help, the energy really rises when you eat a little lighter, healthier things, when you exercise and so on.
But people who don't have such a tendency and don't have such beliefs may not have such a possibility to even focus. Even if you tell them ten times, it just won't resonate and inspire to take care of yourself, of your health. And that's okay, that's not bad either. It's still a perfect manifestation of the jade, just about other features. But of course people manifest themselves in an incredibly different way, caring for themselves through food, some through non-food. After all, British people don't eat. Others concentrate, they are really so incredibly, I don't know, they function well in different fields that they don't have to pay attention to food, Bo to nie jest dla nich ważne i mają mnóstwo energii i co innego daje im energię i adrenalinę, podnosi do działań.
Także to jest różnie na różnych etapach i każde wybiera naturalnie to, co jest mu potrzebne. Kochani, słuchajcie, bo ja mam jeszcze kilka stron do przeczytania i teraz cudownie, że myśmy tak się rozgadali, bo myśmy tak naprawdę dużo najważniejszych rzeczy, które są już w tej sesji powiedzieli. I am very happy to read the second part of the session. We can also leave it for next week, as you wish. The easiest teaching is to always try to go straight first. Always first move to pure light. If it becomes difficult, start to note down, notice your attention. You will start to notice your attention for a few days and automatically you will start to move to the jade.
Thank you for your attention. Happy thoughts. Yes, we have translated this session with Kasia a few years ago and she was not there, of course. There were a lot of things repeated, but when Sash says it, everything seems important in his mouth. I also read it with you, things started to appear, but I think that all that we talked about and I feel that I want to jump right into some action, I think that everything is so simple and clear and I will show my life and bring the right clues and we'll see. I think that it's obvious that there is no point in leaving it empty, but to feel in this space and choose what I want at this moment, and everything will be found and jump into the right place.
I hope that it will come. If we don't pay attention to the negative effects of what is happening now, there is a chance that they will not be realized. Let's focus on what we want, i.e. freedom, freedom and of course no restrictions on our existence. Marcin, would you like to add something? Thank you very much. For the moment, no. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.