The invitation is to practice an open awareness of change.
And I will guide it,
With kindness,
With curiosity,
And just sitting with that,
With the goal of bringing ease and letting go to allow us to be more present and well and find that balance.
Because resistance creates this balance.
So I invite you now to find a comfortable position.
You can lay down.
You can sit.
You can stand in a way that you're relaxed,
Yet you are alert.
So you can be part of the meditation.
So if you tend to fall asleep,
I would say just try to sit up.
But if you don't fall asleep,
You can lay down.
So yeah,
So finding that comfortable position and taking a deep breath and inhale.
Start to lower the gaze or close the eyes.
Or you can even keep them open,
Just observing the screen in a very relaxed way.
It's about finding that comfort to be here in this sitting meditation,
This moment of pause.
And as I said,
Open awareness.
What does it mean?
It means we let go and we could become the observers of what arises and what falls,
Sounds,
Sensations.
So noticing right now,
Perhaps the body is a little stiff in the shoulders.
And I invite you to make adjustments to your shoulders.
Maybe make some movements to allow them to just be there without effort.
If the mind,
As you observe it right now,
It's moving,
Thinking,
There's nothing they need to do.
Naturally,
It will come to stillness.
Just allow it to be.
You are the observer.
So imagine this.
You are in a museum and you observe the paintings,
Sculptures.
You walk around this museum,
Taking your time in a relaxed way,
Just to observe each painting the same way,
That same attitude you bring when you are practicing open awareness.
Observing what arises in us and outside of us,
Like my voice.
And naturally,
We will try to control or just try to stay with one thing,
One thought.
How about if we let that go?
We just become that observer,
That walker in the museum,
That tourist,
That curiosity.
What happens?
What are you noticing?
You don't have to say it out loud.
Just notice.
Your thinking,
Your breathing.
Maybe you notice also a part of your body that may be tense.
It's all right.
You can move.
Meditation is not about being frozen.
It's about being aware.
So if there's a need to adjust,
You can adjust.
Just be aware.
Can you notice when my voice starts and the spaces or silence in between?
How does it feel to just trust the times it will arise,
The times the thought fade away?
You are the observer of this moment.
Are the thoughts arising?
That's OK.
No need to resist.
Allow them to be.
Just observe.
Oh,
I'm thinking about this,
About that.
So I'm going to use some words here to inspire us about change from Jung Po-ryu.
If you were simply to let go and allow yourself to move with the flow of nature,
You would still encounter challenges.
But you won't be adding any pressure about resisting the change.
Embracing change is a path to elevating and eventually eradicating our pain and our suffering.
We easily forget that changes,
Big and small,
Are always happening and always occurring.
Everything is impermanent,
No matter how good or how difficult.
Instead of resisting,
Disliking,
Or even hating change,
How about we try to understand it?
Everything in the history of the mind has a beginning.
The mind and the matter and the things has a beginning and an end.
When we live with the truth of change,
Everything that is good becomes brighter,
And everything that is hard becomes more tolerable.
Take a deep breath.
Inhale and exhale.
And now we're going to move towards a few minutes of silence together in community.
The invitation is to either continue observing with open awareness or just going to a practice that will serve you right now.
Remember,
There is power in sitting in community.
I will let you know when the time is coming to an end,
And I will play some music for us.
I'm going to let go of the practice,
But just finishing together an invitation to consider why we practice.
We practice for our own well-being,
For the well-being of our loved ones,
The well-being of those who are suffering,
Sick,
Or in pain.
And today,
We may pause for something or someone,
And I'll give you some space to say that in silence to yourself.
Thank you for being here.
