Nice and deep.
With the heart open.
We're going to practice.
Loving kindness and connection.
As we deep dive deep into the heart space and soul a powerful seed.
Which will manifest in this coming week.
This coming season.
And your life overall.
If you haven't already done so,
I invite you to go ahead and downshift your gaze or close your eyes.
Arms rested.
Whether you're lying down or seated.
I ask that you Maintain a straight line between your head,
Your neck and your spine.
So I'm going to start off this practice with the famous Quote from the Metta Sutta.
Who does?
Discourse and loving-kindness.
This is from over.
Two and a half thousand years ago.
Buddha said,
Even as a mother protects with her life her child.
Our only child.
So with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.
25 centuries ago,
The sages taught us the love for the whole world.
As if it was our only child.
Today we can reach the whole wide world in a single second and yet And yet we often struggle to reach the person.
Sitting right next to us.
This is the irony.
That we're going to sit with today.
The distance between the hearts was never measured in miles.
It's measured.
In love.
So as we dive deep into this practice,
I want your body to become still.
Still like a lake at dawn.
Let the world outside slowly fade.
The way a room grows quiet.
After the guests have gone home.
There's nothing more important to do.
Nowhere to go.
Nothing to fix.
And no one to impress.
You're here.
You have arrived.
At the only address where love ever lived.
Within.
I want you to please bring your attention to the center of your chest.
Quiet.
Chamber of your heart.
Physical beating heart.
Before you learned your name.
Before you learn to compare.
To compete.
To protect yourself.
You are simply this.
A spark.
A glowing light.
That light is something that never gets extinguished.
Sometimes gets covered by layers.
Layer over layer of fear.
Perhaps hurt.
All of this too.
God.
The heart.
That today's practice is about.
Not needing to create love.
We only want to uncover it.
And that Romance.
That journey of love starts with loving the self.
Now see yourself as you truly are.
Not measured by achievement or mistakes.
A soul.
The Quiet Observer The Eternal Traveler.
Look upon the soul the way a mother looks upon her sleeping child.
With tenderness.
With patience.
With no conditions at all.
And silently say to yourself.
May I be at peace.
May I be free.
May I know that I am loved.
As you're saying this,
Notice if there is any resistance.
Are some part the same.
I have not earned this.
Dear one,
Love was never a wage to be earned.
It's your original nature.
The rose.
Does not earn its fragrance.
Now let's extend that to someone we hold dear.
Let a dear one appear.
And that there be a light in the heart shining on that.
It could be a parent,
A friend.
A teacher.
Or a companion.
On your journey.
See their face.
I want you to see the soul behind their eyes.
Carrying its own quiet burdens.
And its own hidden hopes.
Send them this light of your heart.
In this light of compassion.
May you be at peace.
May you be free.
May you know.
That you are loved.
Feel how this love does not leave.
You emptier.
But somehow it makes you feel it has multiplied.
The truth is that love is the only wealth that grows by being given away.
Now I want you to bring to mind someone you barely know.
Perhaps a neighbor you not do.
A cashier at the grocery store.
Somebody that you pass by on the street.
Last 24 hours.
Just somebody.
They too woke up this morning wanting to be happy.
They too may have wept alone.
They too long to be seen.
From this.
I will see you in the next one.
This light.
May you be at peace.
May you be free.
May you know that you are loved.
There are no strangers.
Only souls we have not yet met.
Understood.
Now let's go.
Do a little bit more advanced practice.
I want you to gently let someone appear.
What has been difficult with you.
Someone who has hurt you or someone who is close to you.
Your heart do.
You've completely shut out.
You do not need to agree with them.
I'm not asking you to invite them back into your life.
I want you to simply see the soul.
Behind the behavior.
A soul that forgot its own light.
And so could not see yours.
And if you can.
I urge you to offer a single ray of light.
May you be at peace.
May you be free.
May you know that you are loved.
Forgiveness is not a gift.
That you give them.
That's a door you open for yourself.
Now let's see if we can take it to another level.
I want you to let this light expand beyond the walls of wherever you're living.
Take it beyond the city.
So it could take it beyond every border that was drawn by mankind.
Let it touch every soul.
That may be feeling alone today or tonight.
That elderly woman by her window.
That young guy scrolling.
Endlessly at midnight.
Surrounded by voices.
But not really hearing any of them.
See if your light can touch every creature that breathes.
Every tree.
Every river.
And every star.
We are not separate,
Dear one.
We are wave searching for the ocean.
And we are that ocean.
When we can remember.
I want you to just drop this practice and rest.
Rest in that.
Field of Light.
That light that pervades.
Everyone and everything.
You are never as alone.
As you have believed.
There are invisible threads that run from your heart to every heart.
In the circle.
It's not something that.
You had to find.
Disconnection.
Something that You only had to remember.
So I want to end this practice with this one question.
If love is my true nature,
What am I still protecting myself from?
If love is my true nature,
What am I still protecting myself from?
As we bring this practice to a close,
I want you to please bring your palms together in prayer position at your heart center.
Anjani Muthra.
Gently tuck your chin towards your heart space in a posture of gratitude.
Gratitude for this experience.
I want you to gently rub your palms against each other.
The palms are an energy vortex.
And as you rub your palms,
You're activating the chi,
The life force,
Prana.
And you feel a brisk warmth glow welling up between your palms.
I want you to then take that and bless yourself,
Covering each of your eyes with one palm.
Close your eyes and Say,
I'm grateful.
I'm lucky.
I'm truly blessed.
I attract amazing people into my life.
I attract wealth.
Attract great ideas.
I attract amazing opportunities.
Attract health.
I am guided by love.
I give everywhere I go.
Even if it's only a smile.
My abundance overflows to those around me.
I love my life.
I am the M in magic.
I'm unstoppable.
I attract wealth at the intersection of light and darkness.
And matter.
I welcome wealth into my life as a manifestation of truth,
Goodness and beauty in this world.
I welcome wealth as life-giving life and life-sustaining life.
Now please bring your palms back together in prayer position at the heart centre.
Thank you.
For joining me in this practice today.
Aum Shanti Shanti.
Shantih.
