Sunday 05 October 2025

Experience Always Changes; Awareness Ever Remains

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Seven-Day Retreat at Garrison Institute, 5–12 October 2025

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Allow your experience to unfold without trying to change anything. Meditation is not about changing content but recognising its nature. Content always differs. Nature’s always the same. Whatever you are experiencing, you are aware of it. All experience is accompanied by the light of awareness. Awareness illuminates experience as the sun illuminates objects. Just as the sun renders the earth visible, awareness renders experience knowable. Be interested in the light of awareness itself. Notice you are effortlessly aware. Just as the sun shines indiscriminately, awareness shines indiscriminately on all content. The body has preferences. The mind discriminates. Awareness is indiscriminate. Awareness is what you are. Thoughts, feelings, sensations appear and vanish, but awareness is always present. The apparent continuity of the world is borrowed from the ever-presence of awareness. States change, awareness remains. Awareness touches all experience but is never touched. Experience changes. Awareness is the same. Experience is agitated. Awareness is at peace.

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