Welcome to our practice of remembering directly what is true,
What we come from,
What we are born from,
What we return to when we drop this body.
To begin,
Choose a posture that supports you today,
Not trying to be a good meditator,
Being erect and stiff,
But listen to your body.
If your body wants to be lying down,
Let it lie down,
Let it open and balance.
If you're sitting,
Let the spine be aligned,
Connecting on the vertical plane between what is above our heads and what is below our feet.
Deliberately deepen the breath for three breaths.
Let awareness penetrate the sensation of breath,
The movement of the ribcage,
The chest,
Even the shoulders.
Feel the temperature and sensation of air moving in the nostrils.
Bring some awareness to the jaw,
The mouth and the nose.
Notice the difference in shifting into the breath,
Not as somebody doing the breathing.
And from right here,
We can take another shift directly into no thing.
Just knowing awareness from being inside the breath,
Sensations and movements,
Into what appears to be empty space.
The quantum dimensions that are full of light and information.
Full of light and also full of emptiness.
Empty space.
We can most easily,
Often,
Know contact with this,
Through coming into this area peripheral to the body,
The area immediately outside of the skin.
Try this.
Taking awareness into what appears to be empty.
Detaching,
Unhooking from attention on object.
And this is a process,
Because we are so conditioned and so habituated to put our attention on things,
On objects,
On thoughts in particular.
So unhooking.
And the mind often scrambles looking for something else to replace.
The next thing,
A sensation,
A state.
Awareness is before everything.
In our practice,
I'll offer several pointers to explore.
We are cosmic explorers excavating the eternal through the fog of forgetting.
As consciousness,
We are exploring this great adventure and experiment of taking form in a human body and forgetting that our nature,
Our truth,
Is one.
Undivided.
Undifferentiated.
Everything that appears to occur,
Whether thought,
Emotion,
Sensation,
Occurs in this.
Birth,
Death are two doorways to the one that we are.
Through every step,
We are never away,
Never separate.
Each of us is a unique pinpoint and prism of codes of consciousness and light emerging from the infinite,
Returning to the infinite.
Let your attention and awareness fall through the structures of who you take yourself to be.
Recognize that breathing continues,
This holy ally that accompanies us through these doorways.
The first inhale,
The last exhale.
Where we come from,
What we give ourselves back to.
We are born every moment,
And death walks with us every moment.
There is no future guaranteed,
There's only speculation and imagination and probabilities.
The infinite is known beyond all concept of space and time.
Recognize that breathing is happening,
This heart is beating,
And what is knowing?
What can observe?
The body,
The mind,
Sensations,
Energy fields,
The movement that we call emotions,
Energy simply shifting,
Gathering,
Dispersing.
What knows this?
Go through thought.
Soften around the skull,
Be aware of the space around the brain.
That which is,
Is around the heart,
In the heart,
In every cell,
In every atom,
And in the empty space.
That which is,
Indescribable,
Is before thought,
Before birth,
Before death,
Before someone.
Soften,
Soften,
Soften.
Let go of trying,
While being devoted to the opening of presence,
To the inquiry and the exploration that does not occur through your mind,
But occurs through a surrender of mind,
Heart,
And breath.
Through this,
The gift of this enlivened body,
That we're given for a moment.
You were born,
And you are being born,
Through the knowing of truth that never leaves.
