Silent Illumination.
Establish your posture,
Posture that is dignified and comfortable.
Rouse an intention and connect with the Earth element.
Connect with Mother Earth supporting us here in this moment,
Putting aside worries and concerns about things not here,
Becoming present,
Here now,
By connecting with Earth element.
Awareness of hardness and softness,
Solidity,
Being held by Earth element.
And from that place of stability you're invited to relax your body,
To let go of tension,
Perhaps by scanning from the top of your head down,
Being aware of tension and releasing it,
Head,
Shoulders,
And perhaps even coordinating your breathing with this,
Letting the breathing be in the background and relaxing on the out breath,
Shoulders,
Arms,
Torso,
Breathing in,
Breathing out,
Present with your body,
Relaxing.
And with the next breath you're invited to shift your awareness to the place around your heart,
To your spiritual heart,
And connect with innate goodness,
That warm spaciousness,
A feeling of benevolence that's there,
It's a part of your being,
It's a part of all humans and other beings deep inside.
And let this connection grow from your heart,
And that it seems to touch every cell of your body,
Every part of your being,
Pervading you,
Soothing you,
Connecting you.
And let this quality of innate goodness,
Warm benevolence,
Expand beyond the boundaries of the divisions of our self with other,
Expand beyond the boundaries of what we normally call the self,
Out.
And let these boundaries dissolve,
Expanding out,
Almost boundlessly in all directions,
Letting the sense of internal and external completely dissolve away,
Dissolve into this universal quality,
Boundless quality,
Innate goodness.
And from that place,
Be present with experience,
With raw experience,
Knowing smells as smells,
Sights as sights,
Sounds as sounds,
Tastes as tastes,
Somatic sensations just as somatic sensations,
And thoughts,
Mental activity,
Cognizing just as cognizing.
Be present,
Bear attention to raw experience,
Not feeding into signs,
Non-conceptual,
And being present,
Inclined towards Nibbana.
The unconditioned,
The unborn,
The deathless,
Experience the deep peace and security of this realization.
