Welcome to this guided meditation.
For experiencing the body.
As awareness.
And not as physical matter.
Any position is fine for this meditation.
Although you may find it more.
Beneficial more powerful.
To do this meditation in a laying down position.
So if it's possible,
Comfortable and appropriate for you to try this in a laying down position,
You might find it.
More conducive to this form of embodied meditation.
But many people.
Don't get on with laying down in meditation.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
Go to the current experience.
Don't worry about concepts like present moment or now.
Just go to experience.
What is this experience?
What are you experiencing?
And to begin,
Don't focus on any particular element of experience.
Just the phenomena of experiencing.
Itself.
That's where the attention can begin Just experience.
What is experience?
What is experiencing?
Is there an experiencer?
Where is this experience?
Just go there and stay there.
No analysis.
No interpretation,
No concept.
But we're not trying to erase the apparent experience.
Not trying to zero out anything yet.
Just see.
What is here?
What is this current experience?
Perceive.
Reality clearly.
To perceive reality with great and profound clarity,
We must only remove the mind.
The mind is the realm of analysis.
And interpretation.
Concept,
Ideas and image.
Remove all of that.
All of that endarkens experience.
We are moving to the light.
Just lights.
Pure observation,
Pure perception,
Meaning unmixed.
Clear space.
Clear water.
Observing all the apparent elements of reality just fine,
Can all still be here.
Now.
Where is the body?
In your current experience.
Go there.
How prominent.
Is bodily sensation.
In your current experience of reality.
Go there.
And focusing attention.
Only on bodily sensation now,
Everything else can fall away.
Just bodily sensation.
You may find closing your eyes is appropriate here.
What is this bodily sensation?
And don't try to arrive at an answer.
Don't try to reach the correct answer,
The spiritually correct answer.
Forget that.
There's no need for any mind.
This is not an exam.
There is no test.
Examine the truth of being.
Through experience.
Be the truth of being through experience.
What is the experience of the bodily sensation?
No conceptual answer.
Just feel it.
Now referring to nothing.
There is no past,
There is no future.
This is the only moment.
As though you spontaneously just.
.
.
Came into existence now.
You have never been taught anything about biology,
About a brain,
About matter.
You have no idea.
What a biological organism even is.
That's an idea.
That's a belief.
Forget that.
Just go to now and just check.
In your experience the raw experience of bodily sensation.
With no mind activity added.
No labels or names.
Does biology.
Does physical matter exist inherently within the sensation?
Stay now.
Stay with the experience of now.
What are these sensations made of?
Now,
If we had no ability to analyze,
No interpretation,
No ability to name or form a visual image.
Would the bodily sensation still carry.
A feeling of denseness,
Heaviness.
Does the sensation itself inherently have that property?
Or is that something we add with the mind?
Even your aches and pains,
Old injuries,
Difficult areas.
Perhaps even places in the body that you carry in a certain way in an attempt to hide,
To shy away,
To protect yourself in certain ways.
If you go to those areas and just re-examine.
.
.
The sensation.
With its inherent nature,
Nothing added.
If we added no associations to the sensation.
Is it still a problem?
The areas of the body we don't like ordinarily or are uncomfortable physically.
But there's no interpretation now.
There's no analysis.
Are they still an issue?
There's still a problem.
Now feeling the sensations of the body.
As awareness.
Meaning.
Recognize that all of the bodily sensations,
The felt sense,
Of being a body.
Is made out of consciousness.
It's not possible to have an experience of a sensation without consciousness.
So consciousness.
Is the substance out of which these bodily sensations are made.
Just as ice is made of water.
Bodily sensations are made of consciousness.
And we have already explored consciousness is always peaceful.
Always serene.
Always comfortable.
It's always allowing and accepting of everything.
So just allow yourself to feel.
The bodily sensation.
As consciousness.
As though you've fallen asleep,
Started dreaming,
And dreamed a body into existence.
The body is not really there.
It is a dreamed body.
You have dreamed this body into existence.
This body is made out of the same substance as the rest of the dream.
Now is it possible?
To take the entirety of the bodily sensations which we ordinarily split into body parts.
And areas that are comfortable or uncomfortable.
And just bring into a singular.
Experience just one sensation.
And just coalesce everything into a singular sense.
As though it were the sixth of the senses,
The sort of internal sense of being a body.
Don't divide anything up.
No categories.
And be the awareness that is aware of that single sense.
Recognize that sense is actually made out of the awareness by which you're observing it.
And begin to withdraw.
Attention from that bodily sense.
Just being the awareness.
Withdraw the attention,
So the awareness can just be pure,
Unmixed,
Unmanifested.
And allow the bodily sense to evaporate.
Bodily sense.
Evaporating into the same space that imagination,
Words and thoughts,
Emotions,
Abide.
Same space.
Let the body go.
You were never the body.
You may wish to spend a little longer just in that contemplation.
Goes no further than that.
Just allow that singular bodily sense.
To become the same.
Dreamlike experience as your imagination.
And just.
Not allowing the body to fall back,
To hide within that old belief structure.
Gotta keep flushing it out of that area.
Bring it back to awareness.
Just observe if things begin to change.
Thank you for doing this meditation with me today.
Take care.
Stay present.
