Being where we are is the greatest challenge we have,
I think.
And to be able to recognize a relationship to where we could be,
Not necessarily wanting or needing things to be different in that way,
But to notice that we exist in a thought structure and an experience and an interpretation that is ours and is in a certain location,
And that it could be quite different in a different location when the interpretations are different,
Just having that awareness is quite then being curious.
Location,
To explore these other realms.
This is where meditation provides us a landscape,
A ground in a sense,
To explore.
And it's a different type of exploration than we're used to.
We're used to moving through space and time,
Seeing things,
Feeling things in the space or in the field of meditation.
We can explore releasing,
Let go of concepts,
Ideas,
Rotations,
And as to float through other possible areas,
Move through the landscape of our inner being.
Enough,
Lucky enough,
Come to various realizations that are surprising.
And yet the techniques and the methods can be the same.
And using the breath through this landscape,
Best tool or best vehicle,
Because as we breathe,
As we change our breath,
As we acknowledge and revere our breath,
Cause the body to shift,
The physiology to change,
Causes the mental pictures and images and experience to change,
And opens up a deeper well of experience for us.
So moving the breath down into the belly,
We literally move it down,
We go deeper process.
There's all sorts of areas to acknowledge and investigate,
Especially the physicality of the breath and the tensions that restrict the breath naturally.
Consciously move that breath down into the belly and soften the belly.
So the belly comes out,
Noticing immediately the tensions,
The contours,
The whole body.
And with each breath in,
Just softening a little bit more,
Accepting and taking in breath a little bit deeper.
And that out breath,
Letting go,
Paying attention to that letting go as a vehicle for release.
Release is everything from the tension,
The physical tension,
To the mental projections and ideas,
The judgments,
Anything that we think that we know can be like a breath with the out breath opening us up to something new,
Possibility of something new.
And so deepening,
Filling the breath in,
Opening that by pushing a little more air,
Extending that out,
Shifting the body to desire,
Starting to get to know the needs.
Taking in and releasing breath just as much as you can,
Just as much as the body is the body is willing and able.
Just taking it a little bit further,
Testing the edges,
Seeing what's available.
With each breath we just go a little bit deeper,
Keeping our awareness and our attention on the breath.
Get back from thought,
Rotations,
Just the mechanics of the breath,
Allowing ourselves to go further inward into the unknown,
Into the mystery,
With the curiosity,
Without the need to know.
As we breathe and go deeper we might detect emotional spaces,
Physical sensations,
No need to interpret.
We can experience them,
Release them if necessary,
Completely with the experience.
These feelings can be difficult to figure out,
Let's get rid of it.
We can stay with the curiosity,
Act with the discomfort,
And simply be with it.
It's too necessary.
Take us somewhere we can let go of the breathing,
Allow ourselves to be breathed,
And just be a thought or a sensation,
Without needing to know relationship to any of the material.
Turning to the breath by taking in a few feet in the eyes.
