🕊️ Episode Summary
In this episode, I explore the nature of surrender as a shift in perception, a turning toward the source of all seeing. Inspired by a post from Philip Atter, I examine how modern coaching and therapy often focus on changing thoughts, whereas a deeper transformation, if you will, arises from embodying the source from which thoughts emerge. Looks like a lot of words that mean nothing till we go directly to the experience of it. Through reflection and guided meditation, we can explore the space of this awareness, the ever-present stillness behind all experience.
🔹 Topics Covered:
The illusion of control and the nature of surrender
How thoughts appear and disappear like clouds in the sky
The direct experience of reality beyond the mind
Awareness as the unchanging witness to all sensations and perceptions
A 10-minute meditation to explore and rest in awareness
🔹 Mentioned in This Episode:
- ’s Instagram Post
The "hard problem of consciousness" and its relation to direct experience. You can explore more on that here. https://iep.utm.edu/hard-problem-of-conciousness/#:~:text=The%20hard%20problem%20of%20consciousness%20is%20the%20problem%20of%20explaining,directly%20appear%20to%20the%20subject.
🎧 Listen Now & Dive In:
Whether you’re walking, painting, or simply resting, allow yourself to listen from a space beyond intellectual analysis—one that invites direct seeing. It would be less helpful listening to this while doing something active…like driving.
🧘🏽♂️ Guided Meditation (Starts at [00:19:55])
This episode concludes with a meditation designed to help you experience awareness as awareness itself. If you’d like to skip directly to that, jump to [Timestamp].
💌 Show Notes & Resources:
Philip Atter’s Instagram:
Other contemplative audios and writings from Seye Kuyinu: https://seyekuyinu.substack.com/t/contemplations
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🌿 Grace and peace be on you.
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