Welcome to Jog Your Mind.
My name is Joi.
Today we are going to be reading the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching and then we're going to discuss very briefly before we enter meditation.
The Tao Te Ching,
Chapter One.
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The unnameable is the eternal real.
Naming is the origin of all particular things.
Free from desire,
You realize the mystery.
Caught in desire,
You see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.
This first chapter to me highlights the beauty of meditation.
The stillness,
The darkness,
The void is where we meet all understanding.
It is here we find peace,
The absence of desire and the embracing of no names,
No identity,
No particular things.
It is in the darkness that we realize the mystery and the letting go of ego-driven manifestations.
It is in the darkness where we allow and have faith that it is already done.
It is unnamed.
It is unexplainable.
It is the darkness.
And in meditation you are one with this darkness.
One with the stillness.
One with manifestation and mystery at the same time.
We will go there now.
Go to the source deep within and want for nothing.
And in the unnamed nothing is the true gateway to all understanding.
Close your eyes and begin to relax into this stillness.
Darkness.
Where the mystery and manifestations alike reside.
All from the same source.
Relax in the peace of this knowing as you quiet the mind more and more from outside distractions and particular things.
Go into the depths of your being.
Beyond identity.
We will meditate now into this darkness.
Continue to breathe in and out.
Slowly clearing the mind and relaxing the body.
Clear the mind.
Relax the body.
Breathing in and breathing out.
Getting more and more comfortable as you feel the lightness and freeing awareness filling you with peace and a gentle energy.
Breathing in and breathing out as you now enter the depths of silence as you relax more and more and let us go into the darkness.
