Hello everyone welcome to mindfulness with Mahip.
Today we are going to practice a different kind of meditation that incorporates Vedanta philosophy.
To begin let's take a position that's most comfortable for you.
Close your eyes if that helps you concentrate.
Keep your back straight if you are sitting feel free to take a backrest if that makes your experience more comforting.
And now take all your attention take all your focus and place it on your breathing sensations.
Take a long breath in hold for a second and breathe out.
Another breath in hold and breathe out.
One more time breathe in hold and breathe out.
Continue to breathe and let the pace of your breathing go back to its natural rhythm but maintain your concentration on to the breathing sensations.
Now that you are more grounded in your breathing now that you are slightly more focused or concentrated.
Let's set an intention for this practice.
The intention is that I will be open to whatever comes up in the awareness for the next few minutes.
Every thought,
Memory,
Sensation,
Emotion,
Sound,
Feeling or experience is welcome here non-judgmentally.
Set that intention for yourself and once you have this intention go back to your breathing and apply this openness to the experience that arises moment by moment.
We are going to use two curiosity-based questions in today's practice.
On every inhale ask the question,
Does it have a beginning?
And on every exhale ask the question,
Does it have an end?
Repeat these questions within yourself or out loud as you like.
Each time you breathe in,
Does it have a beginning?
Breathe out,
Does it have an end?
The questions are directed towards everything that arises in your experience moment by moment including your thoughts,
Emotions,
Sensations,
Sounds or anything that arises within the consciousness.
Ask,
Does it have a beginning?
And does it have an end?
For example,
If you hear a sound,
Maybe my voice,
You can simply enquire,
Does it have a beginning?
Does it have an end?
Each word or sentence is beginning at a point and is ending at a point.
So you can keep it aside,
Yes it has a beginning and an end.
Place it on the side,
Then move to the next experience.
Maybe a thought arises and then the next thought.
Maybe a memory arises.
There is a point of arrival,
There is a point at which this is arising and a point when the mind moves to something else.
So that is the end.
Or a sensation in the body arises.
The moment you notice the itchiness arise,
That is the starting point,
The beginning and the moment it stops happening is the end.
Whatever experience has a beginning and end are temporary.
Keep asking,
Keep placing them on the side in this practice.
The more you notice these temporary time-bound sensations,
Thoughts,
Emotions or experiences or sound,
The more clarity you will experience towards what is not temporary,
What is permanent,
What is that which has no beginning and no end,
That is always here ever present.
Keep asking,
Does it have a beginning,
Does it have an end,
To the experiences that unfold moment by moment.
Keep asking and keep moving deeper and deeper while placing the temporary experiences aside in search of what is not temporary,
What is beyond these experiences.
That is ever present.
Who is that?
Without a beginning and without an end,
What is that?
Keep asking,
Does it have a beginning,
Does it have an end,
Does it have a beginning,
Does it have an end,
Does it have a beginning,
Does it have an end.
Keep cultivating this practice of differentiating what is time-bound,
What is limited,
What is temporary.
Every thought,
Idea,
Sensation or experience that arises within the consciousness has a beginning and end.
The more you practice this,
The more you realize,
The impermanence of these experiences and the permanence of that which is beyond.
And on that note,
Take a long breath in,
Hold for a second and breathe out.
You can relax,
Open your eyes and come back to the space you are in.
I hope this practice was helpful and enjoyable.
Please feel free to leave questions and comments for me.
I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day and I hope to see you the next time.
