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Flat Mirror, Flat Body

by Gyoki Hoji Chris Alder

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4
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guided
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Meditation
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Experienced
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This is an eyes-open non-dual meditation that invites you to merge the sense of self with the visual field and examine the space between these two separate senses as a way to drop into a sense of oneness.

RelaxationAwarenessMindfulnessPerceptionSomaticExperienceVibrancyOnenessEyes OpenFacial RelaxationVisual AwarenessSomatic ExperiencingNon Judgmental AwarenessSpatial AwarenessDepth Perception ShiftsMindful GazingMultidimensional ExperiencesNon DualitySensesSensory Experiences

Transcript

So Start by relaxing the face.

Starting with the cheekbones.

Noticing all the tension in the cheekbones.

Notice how when you relax the cheekbones,

The eyes start to relax.

Holding your eyes open in a soft gaze.

Not looking at anything in particular.

Just taking in the shapes and colours.

Noticing how when you relax the eyes,

You try not to focus on anything in particular.

Your vision really opens up in all directions.

Noticing the more and more the eyes relax.

The more and more they are able to let in.

No effort at all.

Just letting all the shapes and colours come to you.

No effort needed at all.

Notice how you just start to relax the whole body once the face relaxes and the eyes relax.

When you realise experience is just coming to you,

Nothing you have to do to engage,

To feel more fully your experience.

You can just relax the whole body as well as the eyes.

Let the somatic experience come to you as well.

All of your bodily sensations.

Just let them be.

You don't have to engage with them in any way.

The more you do that,

The more the body relaxes.

You notice the more the body relaxes,

The more you're able to hold that sensation.

Just a body.

It's not pleasant,

It's not unpleasant.

It's just a collection of sensations that you label body.

Notice what happens in the visual field when you're able to just allow your bodily sensation to come to you.

Where you can just hold it as one sensation called body.

While at the same time really relaxing the eyes.

Letting visual experience come to you.

Notice what happens when you're able to just hold it as one sensation.

Everything gets a little more visual experience to try and comprehend it,

Pin it down into something.

It starts to seem like it's constantly moving but it's not really.

There is just vibrancy and movement to your whole visual field every single moment.

It normally gets missed when you try to pin down the so called objects in your experience.

Categorise and name.

Like this one you can just hold your body and hold the visual field in this way.

Everything looks alive.

In life you just keep missing by trying to pin everything down.

Notice within that vibrancy as well the usual depth perception you would add into that judgement of each object in your awareness.

It also starts to drop away as you declassify these items as you no longer go towards them and label them.

Or pin them down in any way.

Everything just starts to flatten out.

You almost take back a piece of your consciousness which is nearly always out in front of you making things 3D.

You realise it was actually you that was making them 3D.

Taking a piece of your awareness that you call mind and projecting it outside of yourself.

So you could create a sense of spaciousness in your awareness.

You start to realise it was actually you that created the idea of a 3D world in front of you.

It was just an idea.

A way to hold your mind to try and perceive what was going on.

And you suddenly count down.

You can see the difference in the depth perception.

It's just a clear perfectly reflective mirror right in front of you.

As long as the visual field is flattening it almost feels like a perceived sense of self is flattening.

As I start to merge the physical sensation and the somatic experience of body into the visual field.

Perfect reflective round mirror.

Notice how close they are together.

See if you can notice any space between that flat sense of self that feels now two dimensional and the flat two dimensional mirror in front of me.

Pay attention to the space between those two things in your awareness.

Really draw a sense into how far are these things apart.

Notice the confusion it brings up in the mind.

You start to ask yourself the question could these two things be the same thing.

Is that possible?

Really sincerely ask yourself that question.

Pay attention to your bodily somatic experience when you do ask yourself that question.

Don't try and think your way to the answer.

Experience your way into the answer.

Allow your sensory experience to feel so different to your daily interpretation of what's happening.

Notice how the whole sense of time and space just seems to melt into one.

Just seems to melt into one.

Just seems to melt into one.

Just seems to melt into one.

Just seems to melt into one.

Just seems to melt into one.

Just seems to melt into one.

Just seems to melt into one.

Just seems to melt into one.

Notice even your depth perception of sound shifted and is also a two-dimensional experience.

And within that two-dimensional experience of sound,

There's the odd little noise here and there.

You get to hear.

But as you hold the whole thing as a two-dimensional sensation,

The emptiness and the stillness is the majority of what's here.

So much past emptiness.

It gets missed by looking at the things and not the space.

But it's how much space you can be aware of.

So much space.

So much space.

So much space.

So much space.

So much space.

So much space.

So much space.

So much space.

Meet your Teacher

Gyoki Hoji Chris AlderEdinburgh

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