GONG Allowing ourselves to be here in this room.
It may be that we've been caught up in our day or we're caught up in ideas of tomorrow.
We're usually caught up in future and past.
So just letting ourselves be here,
Not trying to force ourselves to be here,
But more,
Just greet yourself with a loving allowing.
It's not pushing anything away.
Just finding a sense of yourself.
Here.
Noticing the state of your mind.
Noticing the state of your mind.
Noticing the state of your mind.
The state of your emotions.
And just acknowledging them however they are.
How they are.
What is so beautiful is that you can recognize how they are.
We also just check in with the body.
Just the feeling of energy in the body,
Whether we're tired or bright.
Likewise,
Not trying to bring any change or get to a different state.
Just seeing where we are right now.
And noticing if we are commenting on that.
If we're judging or being critical of ourselves.
And just meeting ourselves with as much love as possible.
We can feel ourselves sitting on the floor or sitting in our chairs.
Just physically.
Feel our feet on the floor.
Feel our backs.
Feel our necks.
Backs of our heads.
Our faces.
Our shoulders and our arms and our hands.
Our chests,
Our abdomens.
Our whole body.
Whole body.
And just see if over the next few breaths if you can just let yourself be a few percent more relaxed,
More comfortable.
More relaxed from the mind.
More spacious in our emotions.
Just letting go.
If there's anything important,
Shouting in our heads.
Or any kind of tight feeling or gripping feeling about things that need to be done.
Or how things could have been different if only.
Or wouldn't it be nice if.
.
.
I'm just recognising those.
And letting them have space.
Not having onto them too tightly.
Now just with the felt sense of the body.
Allow your general awareness to settle on the physical movement of your breath.
The breath moving naturally.
However it is,
Whether it's short and shallow or deep and abdominal.
Not creating breath.
But noticing the natural movement of your body with the breath.
Perhaps you can feel your chest rising.
Perhaps the abdomen rises and falls.
You just let your awareness settle on the breath.
And as for the mind.
We're not trying to push it away.
We just allow our thoughts to pass.
As if there were cars going by on the road.
We're not trying to concentrate on the breath.
Just allowing and noticing.
And it might be just quite physical.
Or it may be from somewhere deeper in consciousness.
Just the felt sense of the breath in the body.
And this is enough.
This is enough.
If the mind takes over,
Some kind of projection comes up.
Be it beautiful or wrathful.
Just allowing yourself to notice that that has occurred.
Perhaps you've got caught up with it.
And then time and time again.
Just allowing a return to the sense of the breath moving the body.
Infinite patience.
Infinite love for ourselves.
And so this is enough.
You may notice that deeper part of yourself.
That as you rest here,
You can feel yourself moving more fully into life.
And this too is not a created sense.
That you find yourself more present,
More open in the here and now.
And your thoughts begins to quieten.
And there is space from the emotional cycle.
For something truer.
For something more whole.
Perhaps we can still feel our thoughts.
Maybe we only get a brief glimpse of space from them.
Perhaps judgement or criticism against ourselves or others.
Keeps flashing into view.
Or hopes or wishes that we have.
We're not trying to change anything.
Trying to meditate or achieve any kind of state that has to be held onto.
We simply meet whatever arises with awareness.
Right now while we're sitting here,
Treat yourself as a human being.
You may notice there is space from individual thoughts and emotions.
Enough 어신저.
Just staying with the breath.
Knowing you to count the breath.
Or create the breath.
Just feeling the breath coming and going.
Perhaps noticing the space.
At the beginning and the end of each breath.
A sense of presence there.
And just bringing awareness to anything that takes us away from presence.
We have a choice.
Letting go of all effort.
All mental attempts at trying to meditate.
And just enjoying the profound beauty of your own breath.
Your own being.
Of the life that you are.
The sweetness of your own life.
The happiness of your own life.
