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Meditation:

For these quiet minutes, we distinguish the presence, where breath, sensation and everything come from, behind all the noise. This presence is a more expansive idea than ourselves. We are called to allow this moment to be what it is, for life to be life. We let go of our fears and feel grateful for life.

The humble presence that allows everything to move is being bowed to for all time. It is the sacredness of life and now is an opportunity to give life back to life. Just for a moment, we release the resistance that is a fearful misunderstanding. So, we recognize an openness to understand and listen.

Tiger, Chingel, and Lisa follow up on the CMSM Session called “Infinite Worlds of Worry” and explore many topics that point back to a fundamental discovery.  Ultimately find themselves stumbling upon the most important question, and it’s not “what do I want?”

Tiger Singleton, Chris Hingle and Lisa Hogan tackle this centuries-old and a much fought topic – religion. There is only one God but humans are so creative in interpreting the Holy One. So, our panelists discuss and differentiate what is religious nonsense and truth. Listen and gain inspiring insights on the following topics from this episode:

Knowing VS Believing God This is the Sin Self-reflection aka Ego-reflection Wholeness within Genuine awakening Exhausting to surrender

Knowing VS Believing God

The construct of God is ingrained in us. In whatever culture, there is evidence of God in it. There is some truth to the statement, “There is only one God.” However, conflict arises when everyone thinks their God is the right God which greatly withholds love.

The reality of God is He is undefinable. As something undefinable, it is difficult to put words to describe, preach, or teach about Him. Moreover, there is a difference between knowing and believing in God. Knowing God is experiential, we have nothing to say about Him nor other’s God. Knowing God is simply a loving presence. Meanwhile, believing in God is saying, “I think God is…” or “God looks like this…” Perspectives about God come into play.

This is the Sin

Religious concepts are imprinted from judgement in our minds. It is like managing morality where we are persuaded to behave in a certain way so we don’t go to hell and suffer eternal damnation. Religion seems to control the masses through the fear of a future death. So, there are many religious practices on the basis of different human perspectives.

An example is people taking the Bible literally and believing they are walking down the path of righteousness. However, it can be a way for connecting to a sense of wellness we can’t experience when we perceive ourselves as separate from God.

This is the sin – creating separation between God and us by how we perceive what surrounds us. So, when we perceive separation, we believe in violence and the need to defend ourselves, paving a way for love to be restricted and withheld.

Thus, it is for us to see the truth – we and God are one. Recognizing it means there is nothing to defend and be violent about. We start flowing with Life as if there is no reason to be afraid. Spiritual qualities also extend through us, reflecting wholeness.

Moreover, the truth of the Bible is to end separation. It has numerous pages to keep repeating this truth and for us to continuously pay attention to its profound lesson.

Self-reflection aka Ego-reflection

It is quite impossible to experience somebody else’s frequency. Rather, we are experiencing our interpretation of what we are seeing and believing it is truly taking place. However, beyond our interpretations are just vibrations. It is just innocence.

The mind tends to put meaning on what we see and we think we are special because of our ability for self-reflection a.k.a ego-reflection. However, Life is all about being present. We have the opportunity to be in relationship with God to have the ability of knowing and being present. We are given such awareness so, when we lose it, we can appreciate it. Finding out the more present we are, the more loving we become.

Wholeness within

Much of religion talks about the second coming of Christ or the world ending. However, it is pointing into an internal experience or transformation that gets seen on the outside. As we begin to see wholeness within us, we start looking at the world with wholeness, too.

Genuine awakening

Whatever the truth makes us feel, we can examine it rather than run away. We are anxious to know the truth because we are trying to ho

PLEASE NOTE, the below text is an unedited automatic transcript of the session. There are undoubtedly an enormous amount of grammatical and format errors.

Welcome to Cascais meditation and spiritual musings. The title for this week is infinite worlds of worry and opportunity to explore the adorable innocence of the mind’s determination to find something to worry about. And so we’ll have an opportunity to explore that and bring a good amount of compassion to the minds and insanity and overall just relax. We’ll start with a 10 or 15 minute guided meditation. And from there we will share some insight and wisdom. So let’s just relax.

START OF MEDITATION

This meditation is going to extend an invitation to let go of worry

and as we rest here in this space, we’re going to acknowledge the most simple of things.

we’re going to invite ourselves into presence.

and the doorway to such a relaxation is to acknowledge the movement of the mind and yet also acknowledged what’s actually happening. And in this we can come on to what’s real

we can honor the breath that breathe

in every moment you notice the mind wander. It’s simply an opportunity to come back to this moment. A gentle acknowledgement of, Oh yeah, here I am.

we can make contact with a sincerity within ourselves that can ask, is there anything to worry about right now?

yeah, sure. The mind can imagine many things tomorrow.

the mind can try and bring yesterday into today

but yet in looking at what’s real

maybe we can recognize that right now there’s no need Tori

and so even if it is just for this moment

we can gift ourselves a space that is free of worry. We can finally breathe.

please see that this was a gift that you give to yourself.

permission to be present.

permission to be still

permission to not know

let’s recognize that this moment needs nothing

everything that this might need

is already given.

Even the breath needs nothing as the breath is already given

In order for you to be here right now, nothing is needed in this. We can recognize the alignness of what you are, the truth of, what you are as abundantly taken care of right now. And of course this has been the truth your entire life, the realness of what you are taking care of. And we can see very clearly that that arrest in this moment right now where you are is whole.

It’s complete,

not missing anything.

to such degree we can look back on our lives and see that there was never anything to worry about.

you’ve always been taken care of

in order for you to be here right now, you have gotten everything you needed.

this invites us to connect with a trust

the trust in that which has provided a trust in that which has carried you through

a trust in life itself.

and as an energy of worry might look into the future, we can recognize that this worry simply projects limitation, afraid that something might go wrong.

and in this moment we can acknowledge the truth of the matter and that is if there’s worry, we’re just scared.

in the most adorable way. We are scared that life might stop being a miracle. That is super cute.

notice the adorable quality of this worry, a worry that imagined you might be separate from life

and in this space we can extend a love, a kindness, compassion for that fear

the fear that imagined yourself to be separate, that imagines yourself to be disconnected from this miracle and we can see throughout our whole lives it’s always been an innocent misunderstanding. Ultimately to find out there is nothing to worry about

until we can relax

which is not to push away worry, but the whole space for it. Knowing that it’s just a misunderstanding about what’s real

you can see that if we push away the worry, we’re simply worried about or worry

no need to fear the fear

we can

Show summary: In this moment, it is vital to recognize the truth, to surrender the guilt brought from the past and the worries from the future. Allow this invitation from Tiger Singleton to redirect your focus to the present and devote yourself to the truth. What is genuine devotion? What is deep focus? These questions and much more are answered in this episode of Cascais Meditation and Spiritual Musings.

Welcome to Cascais Meditation and Spiritual Musings!

Honored once again to take a moment and checked in. The topic is focus and devotion. It is a subject matter I am excited to explore the parallels of humanness which is focus and spiritual thing which devotion. Recognize the beauty of that they can’t be separated.

Format: guided meditation, spontaneous rambles of spiritual insight focus and devotion and engage in questions and dialogues.

Start of meditation

(Moments of silence)

So often we miss the power of presence and the power of stillness and the invitation of meditation is to connect such space that reminds us of great strength.

For a short time, allow yourself to come home to presence and invite space of stillness.

This doorway connects within ourselves to see deeply from where we are. It is a great allowing of what it is – every noise, sensation and heartbeat.

All is surrendered, all is allowed.

We take a moment to discern and acknowledge what is real even if the mind wonders here or there, backward or forward.

We can acknowledge reality of right now. Within the mind, the noise, and commotion, is this space right now.

Allow yourself to melt into what is real while releasing what is not.

I invite you to recognize an internal quiet space – nothing to say, just allowing.

Recognize space is undisturbed by all the noise

Unconcerned about what might arise/fall for everything is allowed.

(Moments of silence)

Notice in this quiet space, there is no concern, no problem to be solved.

I just invited you to see to connect such presence, to feel in the depth of willingness, to perceive and welcome love that embraces.

A profound openness from life to life. The visual I get to explore such is the sun looking above to the earth saying, “Let me see you.” This is the openness, “Let me see”.

(chime)

End of meditation bell.

The opportunity of focus and devotion, we can playfully explore this in a human context how every life’s subtle invitation is brought by pain in feeling something which is opposite of focus. Let’s explore this perceived opposite. In my experience, it is loud when focus is distant, almost impossible to attend to what is in front of me. The mind is disturbed in 10,000 things from the past and future. I can only focus now. Not focus on the future. Focus is what’s happening now, bringing being into movement that it’s allowing distraction to fade, allowing to surrender which is not here. Something within self-focus is engaged.

Human beings are distracted by a mental commentary based on fear. When we are not focused, we are afraid. Recognition of focus is to love. Focus in giving your attention fully is a beautiful illustration of love. What is the fear to distract us? I think, simply it is, recognizing the sense of inadequacy, a concern we will fail. Why try? Why focus when it results in failure?

Naturally, it points to a human confusion which is a misunderstanding where we are in life to get something. We engage in focus because of a prize in the future. Fear arises because of this, because we believe we are not enough.

So, this is an invitation to focus. Not to get something in the future but as an opportunity to see presence as an opportunity. See this as a love shared between two people. Do you see the disingenuity of a nature of love that says, “I love you right now so I can get something from you in the future?” It is not genuine love at all. Why would love arise? A love that sees love. We explore seeing things as they truly are.

The disaster is to watch collapse all of our fantasies about spirituality; only to be taken more deeply into the heart of what’s actually true. All seekers of truth will pass through this gate of disappointment; however, you are encouraged to keep pressing on toward the real prize in life.

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