Field Of Care (March 2025)

This meditation guides us to imagine, remember, or call upon a moment of receiving care, kindness, and/or love. This can be a moment with a person, animal, in nature, or spiritual teacher(s). The meditation has us open to and connect with this Field of Care, which is always here and available. This is a short meditation that can be adapted to busy schedules and practiced throughout the day. This recording was made at the Attachment Healing retreat in March 2025.

These SCT meditations are inspired by the teachings of Lama John Makransky and adapted from Tibetan Buddhist traditions (especially Dzogchen and Mahāmudrā).

Transcript

Letting your attention drop out of the thinking mind. Coming into the body. And taking some of those deeper breaths. Feeling the breath moving in the body. You might feel your belly rising and falling. Chest. Feeling your seat on the couch. On the chair or the cushion. And then bring to mind your. . . Field of care. Benefactor, Benefactor moment. Spiritual being. So bring them to mind. As if they were here now, Present with us in the room. Freshly imagining these beings. Places, Moments. So really having the image and the felt sense. And getting a sense of their care. Receiving this. Kind care. Every part of you held in this warm and positive regard. If every part of you was loved in its very being. Every part of you loved in this very being. Every emotion, Every thought, Every distraction. Every doubt. All of it included and just receiving. The warmth and care and attention. Whenever you lose track or get distracted. Just freshly recalling. The field of care here now with us present. And being held in that spacious warmth. Every part left and it's being just as it is. And for the last part of this practice. And just. . . Let go of all effort. Just let your mind be, Just trust into this spacious space. Quality. Letting your body be, Letting your breath be. Letting the mind just fall open. Into the spacious warmth letting all thoughts and feelings just be metabolized, Metabolize themselves. Within the spacious warmth. Of this awareness.