Day 7 - Closing Talk and Final Sharing (live replay)

Good morning everyone.

So here we are. It's the last morning.
So I'd like to talk a little bit about

what happens now and life and this
integration.

As with everything on this path this whole idea of integration is a bit of a paradox.

So I'm going to be sort of talking about the two dimensions of life and a little bit about

understanding this paradox. And I'll maybe start by something something

that Ramana Maharshi said a lot. He said you know this path requires vigilance...

a constant vigilance and this is something that is ongoing throughout life.

And it's an interesting sort of vigilance because it's not a vigilance to to do something.

It's a vigilance to remember the truth or to abide in the Self; to be as you truly are.

So there's this ongoing vigilance. There's a teaching... in the teachings of Dogen he says

that meditation doesn't lead to enlightenment, meditation is enlightenment.

You know by being, by just being, by just sitting, by unhooking from the mind you know it requires this constant vigilance.

So this is this is one aspect of the path; one aspect of integration.

And the counterpart to it is that everything is perfect as it is and nothing needs to be done.

Nothing needs to be achieved. And we can hold this paradox together.

It's this always being Buddha, always becoming Buddha.

You know Ken Wilbur talked about waking up and growing up. So there's recognizing the truth of who we are; you know the waking up, And there's this ever unfolding development process.

You know this this human avatar is an ongoing project. So we're we're always engaged in both.

There's always waking up and growing up. So you know from one perspective the mind asks you "how do I, how do I stay awake?"

We touch awareness you know and and the mind says "how do I keep it?"

And this is the delusion of the mind... that there's something to do, something for it to do to stay awake.

So this is the the fundamental delusion of the mind...

you know it thinks that "I'm going to purify samskaras,

I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that. I'm going to...

you know where's the the the next workshop?"

And you know this is an endless doing and seeking.

So hopefully at this retreat you know the one thing that I I really want to convey is that we can let go of that seeker.

We can we can let go of that seeking mind,

that we don't we don't need to seek with the mind. That what we're seeking is already here

and if we're engaging in any practice it's just unhooking from that mind.

You know it's just being you. You could say the just being is the the entire path.

Really it's that simple. You know I always say it's so simple that the mind misses it

so don't fall into the trap, you know that there's something to do,

something to integrate something for that mind to to get its control mechanism engaged with.

So in terms of the ongoing being you know the sadhana, the ongoing vigilance...

we we're going to load you up with stuff....