Close the eyes,
Find your comfortable seat.
Comfortable seat means wherever you can sit with the hips higher than the knees.
Closing down the eyes.
So wherever our attention goes,
The energy flows.
So let's begin by bringing our awareness to the whole physical body.
Just feel the felt sense of your body in space.
You might even be able to sense with eyes closed the furniture around you or the air on your skin.
We have this perception of that which we cannot see in the space around us.
So we allow the awareness to come right into the physical body.
So feeling the skin,
The flesh,
The joints,
The muscles,
The bones,
The blood flowing,
The organs moving,
The nervous system masterminding it all.
Just notice and observe.
This is a moment of awareness.
This is an observational meditation where we really use the power of awareness to scan the body from gross to subtle,
From matter to ether.
So we start here with the most gross being physical,
Dense,
And allowing the awareness to move one layer deeper into your pranic body,
Your energetic body,
Noticing the quality of your breath,
Flowing in,
Flowing out.
Notice the quality of the breath,
The length of the breath.
Is the breath up in the chest or down in the belly?
And allowing the awareness to move one layer more subtle to the mental and emotional bodies.
Just be where you are today.
Be present to what's here and this here and now.
So we don't name,
Shame,
Or judge anything we're observing.
We make space,
We distance ourself between the mechanism and the witness self.
From the mental and emotional bodies,
Allow the awareness to move one layer deeper to our wisdom body.
This is our intuition,
Our inner knowing.
We can say the thread between the physical and the non-physical realms,
Perhaps the angel line,
Just allowing the awareness to rest there in your wisdom body.
And the most subtle,
The most refined sheath of awareness is our bliss body,
The Anandamaya Kosha,
Where it's so refined,
So subtle,
It's not contained in the body or in any physical sense of awareness,
But if we had to place it,
It would be hovering around the crown of the head.
This is our true self,
The bliss body.
That which is aware of the body,
Aware of the thoughts,
But untouched,
Unchanged,
Unmoved by any sense of up or down,
Rise or fall,
Health or sickness,
Lost or found.
The bliss body is ever unchanging.
The bliss body is that ever-present sense of I am.
It's your sense of I am that never changes,
It always remains.
From the time you were five till now,
You always had the sense of I am.
The world we live in,
The way in which we move through the world,
We have to add on I am.
Bobby,
I am a teacher,
I am a daughter,
I am this,
I am that,
But drop away all the identification from the individual sense of I and just connect with your bliss body,
The sense I am.
I exist unchanging.
I exist ever the same.
I am that ever-present blissful being that is like the vast deep ocean,
Unaffected and yet never separate from any wave that rises or falls,
Any small bubble that rises up and thinks it's a small individual I.
But as we expand the awareness out,
We recognize,
We identify with the vast ocean of the bliss unchanging self.
The thoughts will rise and fall just as the nature of the ocean,
The waves are to rise and fall and yet the water remains unaffected.
Just as water unaffected remains in an iceberg,
The unaffected self can rise and fall,
Can move and play,
Can manifest and unmanifest,
But it itself is unaffected,
Unchanging.
You are that.
We can bring in the mantra,
I am that.
I am that unaffected,
Unchanging awareness.
I am vast like the ocean,
Unaffected from the waves.
I am free and ever-present like the sky,
Unaffected by the clouds.
When we remain identified with that sense of vastness of all permeating presence,
Then whatever thought arises,
We can allow that thought to fall away without any sense of attachment or identification.
We know it just rises from that self and returns to that self.
But who I am is that unchanging awareness,
That sakshi witness self.
Who is the one who is watching the thoughts?
Who is the one observing the body in meditation?
When the time comes,
We will pick up our hats and our identifications of name and form and play and move in time and space with this mind and body,
And the whole happening happens out of the unaffected awareness.
It all happens out of that universal bliss self.
Ever-unchanging,
Ever-perfect,
Ever-free,
Ever-vast,
Ever-present.
That sense of I is you and me one.
Whether the bliss self picks up a body and says,
I am this body,
Or whether it discards the body and says,
The body is no more,
The self remains the same.
We can call it love,
We can call it life,
But it's that flow that is unwavering,
Unending,
Unbeginning,
Unchanging.
Wherever we put our attention,
The energy goes.
So put your attention there on the vast space behind your closed eyes where you can very clearly witness the rise and fall of the thoughts.
In the same way,
In the dream state,
We watch the dream appear and disappear,
And yet why do we wake up and know it was an illusion?
And yet in the waking dream,
We take it all as fact,
But still it's the same observer,
The same witness self who watches the day begin and the day end.
It's the same witness self that's there in deep sleep when there's no mind,
There's no dreamer,
It's only space.
There's no identification,
There's no sense of duality in deep sleep.
So in our meditation practice of dipping into our true self,
Can we put our attention on that unchanging,
Unaffected,
Blissful self?
And we'll take the last couple minutes in silence to remain as the watcher,
The sakshi,
Where your attention goes,
Your energy flows.
So just keep gently guiding the awareness,
The attention back to yourself as that vast ocean unaffected,
Blissful being.
If you're inspired to remain dipped in that vast ocean,
In that blissful,
Unchanging self,
I invite you to do so.
Otherwise,
Take a moment before you open your eyes to just allow yourself to embody that felt sense of vastness,
That pause between the thoughts,
That pause between the breath so that we can bring that sense of oneness,
Of blissfulness with us into the rest of the day,
Into the rest of the life,
Really connecting,
Really knowing we can shine that light,
That brightness,
That oneness wherever we go.
You can rub the palms together,
You can cup the hands together,
You can cup the hands over the eyes if that feels available.
And then as you're ready,
Gently opening the eyes,
Coming back into your seat.
I give you the greatest,
Highest appreciation and I bow to anyone that's interested or desiring connecting with that ever-changing,
Ever-present,
True self.
So thank you for practicing with me today.
I appreciate you.
