Awaken to compassion.
We're going to slowly scan through different experiences day by day for the first few minutes as you awake and see how everything that happens in each moment is the expression of our pure awareness.
We can experience awareness right now as a silent,
Open ocean within which your body rests,
Floating,
Immersed,
Silent,
Still and spacious.
As you breathe,
Flow with awareness down into your heart.
Breathe in and out as you settle into the heart.
Be open to the energies you receive here,
This open-hearted awareness.
Be open to the quiet,
Subtle radiance of your heart.
Be open to presence.
Be open to the power of compassion and love.
Notice and sense the already existing power of all-embracing compassion here in your core.
Offer this compassion your sweet,
Gentle attention and softest whisper of devotion.
Rest deeply in the all-embracing silence,
The sense of compassion that embraces all beings and pushes none away,
That is simply being and allowing whatever arises.
Bring to mind any challenges and obstacles you are facing in your life right now.
If you are facing struggles,
Allow them to arise within your sacred heart.
Embrace them,
See them fully,
Feel them fully with the quiet,
All-embracing presence of your heart.
Sense any struggles with the purity of the light and radiance of your heart.
With the deepest devotion,
Visualize and feel your community,
Sangha,
All beings,
All your teachers,
All your spiritual guardians surrounding you and supporting you on all sides.
Go deep in the felt flowing sense of compassion.
Breathe in the light of your community into you and breathe out the light of your heart to them.
Realize that just like you,
They are suffering and just like you,
They have a great light in their hearts with the potential to enlighten the world.
Generate great compassion for your family and friends,
Your community,
Freeing all from suffering and liberating all into recognition of their light.
Realize the incredible support you have from the beings all around you to generate this compassion.
With the deepest,
Softest,
Most powerful flow of compassion,
Gentleness and understanding,
Shine the light of your heart to the entire world.
Notice how the presence of your heart brings a deep felt sense of intimacy,
Of closeness to all of life.
Notice how vivid and alive,
How intimately connected you feel with all of life.
Rest in this feeling of closeness,
Of openness,
Of letting go.
Rest in the vast space of allowing of eternal freedom.
Let the sense of timelessness in this vast space unfold on rays of light and love and compassion.
Let yourself rest as this spacious and open,
Timeless and limitless,
Effortless space of love and compassion.
So natural,
Silent,
Clear and vast,
This ocean of love and compassion,
Awareness that clings to nothing and yet pushes nothing away.
Sense and feel this openness,
This compassion,
Allowing,
Soft,
Formless and natural,
Effortlessly present.
As you go about your day,
Rest in the felt sense of compassion for all beings.
Give your deepest attention and devotion to compassion for every challenge in every moment throughout your day.
It is your own struggles you are embracing with infinite love and compassion.
Rest within this vast ocean of still,
Silent,
Spacious awareness,
This felt sense of unconditional love and compassion.
