Awaken to Divine Relationship.
We're going to slowly scan through different experiences day by day,
For the first few minutes before you sleep,
And see how everything that happens in each moment is the expression of our pure awareness.
We can experience awareness right now,
As a spacious and open ocean within which your body rests,
Floating,
Immersed,
Silent,
Still and spacious.
For these next few moments,
Notice what is happening in your body.
Notice any sensations that are present right now.
As you feel all of these experiences unfolding in your body,
Drop your awareness down,
Deep down into your heart.
Drop into your heart and feel the presence of the Mother,
The dream goddess,
The Dakini,
The sky dancer,
The angel in your dreams,
Protector and guardian of sacred sleep.
You can visualize her in whatever form or formlessness or light body you want.
As we develop a relationship with the dream goddess,
We connect to our own deepest nature.
We're connecting to our relationship with the Divine.
Right now and during your day,
She can be visualized in light body form,
Pure,
White,
Luminous and beautiful,
A translucent body made holy of light.
She abides in your heart center,
Radiating beautiful,
Pristine,
Boundless awareness.
Imagine yourself dissolving into her at your heart center and she into you,
Mixing your essence until it is one.
Wherever you are,
She is with you,
Residing in your heart.
Visualize yourself eating with her and offering her food.
Visualize yourself drinking with her and offering her what you drink.
See yourself talking to her and let her talk to you.
You are listening to the infinite space of presence within your heart.
Imagine her giving you teachings,
Dharma,
Guidance and wisdom.
This might be teachings you already know or teachings that are boundless.
Let your heart and let the dream goddess remind you to remain in presence,
To cut through ignorance,
To act compassionately,
To be mindful and to resist distractions.
Simply be present with this moment and this and this turned inwardly to your heart,
To the heart of the divine,
To the heart of the dream goddess.
Your teachers may not always be available,
Nor your friends or your family,
But the dakini,
The dream goddess is.
Make her this power of presence in your heart,
Your constant companion and guide of your practice.
You will find very soon this communication opens,
Becomes clear,
Real,
Embodying your own understanding and that she reflects the dharma back to you.
Again turn inwards to her presence in your heart and everything in your room seems more luminous and your mind more lucid and your heart open and clear.
She is teaching you that the luminosity and lucidity you experience is the clear light that you truly are.
Train yourself to realize that even when you feel disconnected or a negative emotion arises that this automatically reminds you of her.
Let a feeling arise now,
Just a casual everyday feeling of something you do by habit and see yourself as connecting with her in your heart.
It's as if you're brushing your teeth or eating your breakfast with her present with the qualities of compassion and wisdom alive in your heart.
Then allow a relationship with which you're struggling to arise and as you see yourself communicating with that person,
Feel the dream goddess in your heart giving you guidance to be compassionate and to remain present and open and sacredly listening.
Notice how this brings you back to awareness.
Bring a positive emotion,
Something you really love doing during your day into your awareness and feel her at the center of your heart sharing with you,
Filling yourself with presence of this beauty and richness of this present moment.
Each experience bringing you back to awareness like the bell of a sacred temple that marks the beginning of your practice again and again and again.
Just rest in this open clear purity of this divine relationship,
This effortless awareness embraced in the warm and tender care of your divine mother.
Let yourself rest as the spacious and open clear boundless mother awareness that clings to nothing and yet pushes nothing away.
Sense and feel this openness,
This clarity,
This formless luminous mother awareness so naturally and effortlessly present.
Rest in the felt sense of this divine mother within your heart,
This open all-embracing loving compassionate awareness.
