The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the door sill where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.
The poet Rumi has given us this call to awakening.
The breeze at dawn,
The breath of life has secrets,
Has knowing,
Has wisdom.
The breath of your body has a certain knowing and wants to inform you.
Stay awake.
Don't go back to sleep on this.
You must ask for what you really want,
For what you really want,
The real you really wants.
Stay awake to this knowing.
Don't go back to sleep.
There are secrets.
There is information.
There is wisdom in what you really desire.
And yes,
People are going back and forth across the door sill where the two worlds touch.
You are going back and forth,
Back and forth between the two worlds pulsating with this essential rhythm of life that is common to the entire universe in and out,
In and out,
Back and forth between the world of spirit and the world of matter.
The door is round and open.
The door between your humanness and your divinity,
Round and open and inviting.
Stay awake to this.
Where these two worlds touch,
That is where you're meant to live your life.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.
No matter what time of day you sit to offer yourself to this meditation,
Let this be a dawning moment for you,
A fresh start.
The breeze at dawn,
This is the breath of our source,
The breath of creation's Holy Spirit moving across the things of our world.
Awakening our own body and revitalizing your own breath.
And let us now join the breath of our body with the breath of our source.
We can begin by taking a few full,
Deep cleansing breaths,
Allowing the lungs to expand a bit more than you normally would,
And letting each exhalation be a full and audible letting go.
Letting the life force,
The prana that is carried on the breath of source,
Join with your own breathing.
And let this enlivening breath that carries secrets,
That carries your knowing,
That reunites you with the source of your own being.
Let this enlivening breath just wash through your body and being right now.
Staying awake to this great dawning breeze that comes with each and every in-breath and is refreshed with each and every out-breath.
And feel the enlivening energy of a breath that is fully received,
Fully welcomed.
A breath and in-breath that we say yes to.
We welcome in fully.
And feel the relaxation of the body and the mind that accompanies an out-breath that is fully given away.
An out-breath where we give a wholehearted yes to its leaving.
Each out-breathing in this manner clearing the space for something new to enter.
Each in-breath fully received will awaken and inspire.
As each out-breath fully given circulates the pleasure of the awakening into every cell of the body and into the space surrounding the body.
Each in-breath awakens and inspires.
And each out-breath circulates the pleasure of the awakening throughout the body and into the world.
Allowing each inhalation to be long,
Slow and comfortable.
And allowing each exhalation to be more relaxed and more pleasurable than the one before.
And let your attention travel to the sanctuary of the heart.
And let your attention be full and relaxed inside this sanctuary in the center of your chest.
And beginning now to shift your breathing so that each in-breath is taken into the heart.
And each out-breath is given from the heart.
Feeling the actual sensation of breathing into and from the heart center.
Breathing into a place.
Breathing into a consciousness that has the capacity to hold you without the hint of judgment.
Breathing into that place in your heart that holds you with respect and appreciation for who you are now,
As you are now.
Feel the relaxed timelessness of this open and tender place in your heart.
Feel the rich,
Warm,
Welcoming presence of this place.
A warmth that begins to grow and extend itself to relax and soothe the solar plexus as well.
And know that you are making contact with a presence which sets your life free to reveal itself in its unique way.
A presence which sets your life free to unfold in its own time and with its deepest rhythms and integrity.
Take a moment to enjoy the sensation of residing in this great presence of heart.
