Open & Willing To Be Moved By Life

The Vajra Heart teachings make the ancient and esoteric spiritual teachings accessible to the contemporary mind. In one sense a synthesis or blend of teachings that originate in Buddhism, Yoga, Sufism, Shamanism, and Mystic Christianity, the Vajra Heart teachings arise as a current path to spiritual and psychological freedom. With meditation, inquiry, and the art of presence, these teachings address the core of human suffering and confusion, and introduce the Truth that is disguised by consensus reality and its viewpoints.

Transcript

You might feel as though you're not in such a good space,

Or you may feel as though you're in a great space.

Let's see if it's possible just to get in contact with the sensations that are present,

The energy that's present,

Your body,

Its openness,

Its contractedness,

But without any evaluation of it.

But the difference between this practice and simply being detached is that as you begin to notice your current condition or state,

That you are starting to feel yourself becoming engaged with it,

Sensitive to it.

Available to what's taking place within you in this moment.

So our need to drop our judgment comes in being able to come into real,

True,

Genuine contact with yourself and with your inner experience.

So if you come to meditation trying to get to a certain feeling or state,

You'll notice that that trying itself becomes a burden here.

And what I would suggest is as we're sitting here for a little while,

30 minutes maybe,

That you're not trying to get to a better state or a different state,

But that you are being intimate and engaged with,

Available to,

Open to the state that's present.

That involves some kind of heartfulness.

That you're extending your openness,

Your love,

Your tenderness,

Your warm-heartedness,

Your generosity to yourself,

To your experience.

So of course you can continue to breathe in a way that is fluid and harmonious.

And in a sense we're just paying attention in a particular way.

We're paying attention in such a way as to engage.

Engaging with experience is different than analyzing it.

It's different than interpreting it.

It's different than interacting with your experience in order to do something about it.

It's allowing yourself to feel,

Allowing yourself to sense just what's present in the moment.

And of course to engage our experience there's an element of curiosity necessary,

That I'm actually interested in the experience that I'm having in this moment.

Pay particular attention to your body,

Because the body will communicate to you what's going on.

And that can be quite different than what your mind tells you is going on.

Perhaps you feel some energy or sensation in the body,

And that can be something to bring attention to.

Again,

Not to analyze it or judge it or evaluate it,

But just to contact it.

So from this we begin to experience a connection to ourself,

Contact with our experience,

And to some degree contact with our inner being.

You realize as you make this contact that it has nothing to do with the world outside of you.

There may be stories or narratives that go along with the things that you're aware of,

But that really contact with yourself or your experience has nothing to do with anybody else.

It's a very intimate,

Close experience.

Very personal,

Highly personal.

So this is not about what you should be experiencing or could be experiencing or will be experiencing or were experiencing.

It's about what's here right now,

Just what's here.

And you might like what's here,

You might not like what's here,

But in either case,

That too is something that we can be with.

I can be here with not liking what's happening.

I can be here with liking what's happening.

But I'm just staying with a thread of openness and availability to see what happens when I stay in contact with myself.

To see where my experience leads me when I'm open and available to myself,

To the moment,

To life.

And a truly open,

A truly available person does not know where things are going to go,

Does not have it already planned out and mapped,

But is open,

But is ready to be moved by life itself.

So this practice is one of emptying out your intentions,

Emptying out your plans or strategies,

So that your awareness,

Your attention can be led to let life reveal to you what it is to reveal.

It's possible as you develop contact with your experience,

Intimacy with it,

That you'll misinterpret what's happening.

It's possible.

But if you stay with your present moment experience,

Your interpretations,

Your misinterpretations,

They will arise,

But they will also fall away.

They'll change.

So just stay with your experience.

And if you continue to sit here with this openness and availability,

You'll see the many ways that your mind or your stories,

Your emotions even try to interfere with this process,

Try to co-opt it,

And we have just about every reason available to not stay in contact with our experience.

So we're just sitting here open.

We're sitting here in a sense,

Naked,

Available,

Willing.

You may be having some kind of experience that you can clearly see or feel.

You could also be having an experience that's kind of vague,

Doesn't seem to be much to it at all.

But in either case with your experience as it is,

If you just continue to stay engaged with it,

Something begins to happen.

Okay.

Okay.

So if you sit down and you realize that your mind is simply busy racing,

There's an endless stream of thoughts,

You might for some moments just have contact with this busy stream of thinking.

Just be present to it.

Just be available to it.

Don't try to change it.

Don't try to fix it.

Just be open to it.

Of course it's possible as you open,

There could be some emotion or emotional release that could be very important for us to be present to,

Available for.

It can arise that as you begin to maintain consistent contact with your experience that you may feel you don't have the strength or stamina or focus to continue that.

But even that can be something that we can be present to,

Something we can be available to see,

Recognize.

So everything is fair game here.

There's no experience that we're shutting out,

Turning off,

Trying to get rid of.

There's nothing we're trying to fix or improve,

Nothing we're trying to achieve.

Just remaining in continuous contact with our direct experience.

And to do this,

Some heart is needed.

Some willingness on the level of heart to have this intimate,

Full contact with yourself.

To see,

To recognize that contact with yourself is something that we can be present to.

To see,

To recognize that contact with yourself also is contact with life.

Contact with existence because existence is happening here within you.

If you stay with your experience continuously,

It will deepen,

It will expand,

It will open up to reveal even more.

So perhaps there's an element of trust here too,

That you're trusting the unfolding of your experience.

Okay.

Of course,

There's no right or wrong experience here.

Nothing you should or shouldn't be experiencing.

But if you're willing,

This contact will begin to take you on a journey.

It will begin to lead you,

Show you.

It happens not by your effort or will or trying,

But simply by your availability,

Your willingness,

Your openness.

It just einmal occurs.

To be open is to totally empty yourself.

To become completely willing.

Completely without an agenda or motivation.

Ready to be steered.

So this is a practice,

If you will,

Of becoming completely a passenger.

So this is a practice,

If you will,

Of becoming completely a passenger.

So this is a practice,

If you will,

Of becoming completely a passenger.

Of course this entails the need to see through the attempt to control your experience.

The need to restrict your experience.

So that you can be truly open,

Truly available.

So this is a practice,

If you will,

Of becoming completely a passenger.

So this is a practice,

If you will,

Of becoming completely a passenger.

So this is a practice,

If you will,

Of becoming completely a passenger.

As you notice yourself drifting away at times.

To just notice that as some part of yourself,

Some part of your attention that doesn't want to stay in contact.

Don't judge it or fight against it.

Just notice some part that doesn't want to remain in contact.

So this is a practice,

If you will,

Of becoming completely a passenger.

So this is a practice,

If you will,

Of becoming completely a passenger.

So this is a practice,

If you will,

Of becoming completely a passenger.

So this is a practice,

If you will,

Of becoming completely a passenger.

So this is a practice,

If you will,

Of becoming completely a passenger.

So this is a practice,

If you will,

Of becoming completely a passenger.

So this is a practice,

If you will,

Of becoming completely a passenger.

So this is a practice,

If you will,

Of becoming completely a passenger.

So this is a practice,

If you will,

Of becoming completely a passenger.

So we must realize that when the bell rings,

Our contact with our direct experience doesn't just end all of a sudden.

That it is our continued practice of presence to stay with an intimate engagement of what's going on in the moment.

So even as we begin to speak,

As I begin to speak and you listen or as you speak,

That this sense of engagement and contact can continue.

Not so much be maintained,

But that it just continues of its own momentum,

Its own power,

Its own force.

If you see this as something that you need to continue doing and making an effort for,

It'll feel like hard work.

But with the simplest sense of contact and the intimate engagement with your experience,

It's not work at all.

So when you hear the bell,

It'll just be a transition.

You are welcome to just keep your eyes closed and focusing in the way that you are now,

And you'll also be welcome to open your eyes and move around or engage in a new way.

Bell Bell Bell

Reviews

I’ve just started following you. You keep it simple, light, interesting and pique my curiosity. Love to Sit…To Be..Thankyou.🙏🌟

Great pace

Excellent

Excellent 🙏🏽 especially appreciated the spaciousness between words.

Thank you for your presence, felt like fluzzy energy, unease in some ways but there was not much thoughts 😊

Guided me to a very deep place, long after the final bells, where I experienced subtle/profound embodied healing. Thank you!!!

Masterful mindfulness meditation. Reinforcing “Heart” enhances practice considerably for me. Thank you!

Beautiful. Lovely. Thank you.

Wow! My body begins to do its own thing after about 15 minutes in. Very cool! Thank you!

Thank was amazing! I’m so grateful to have been led to Adi. Thank you so much for sharing what you have discovered about Life!! 💕

Such spacious guidance. Was interesting to begin with just allowing what is rather then breath work or directed thoughts. Thank you.

My most favorite yet

Thank you! I adore this. Being present is so important to me and my well-being💖

Beautifully done♥️

Opening up to perceive myself as life.

Powerful and spacious. Thank you.🙏

A Very Good And Powerful Practice, Loved That The Instructor Left Space And Pauses For Reflection. Thank You 🙏🏾🙏🏾

Thank you. This is a powerful, yet gentle practice of presence and awareness.

Wonderful message.

Love the idea of being taken on a journey. Wonder whether we can ever see through our personal and cultural fantasies, defences and delusions.