Welcome to this meditation time.
Allow yourself to settle and become comfortable.
Allow your breath to settle.
Allow your brain to soften.
Let your eyes be soft and your tongue.
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Let the soles of your feet be soft.
Let the gentle pressure of your breath encourage your upper back to soften.
Let the softness from your expanding breath flow down into the area of your belly organs.
Let the softness flow down into the area of your belly organs.
Sitting here now,
Feeling the breath,
Feeling your skin and your bones,
Feeling your body sitting here and breathing.
In this moment,
This is truth.
You know that you're breathing because you feel your breath.
You know that your body is taking in nourishment because you experience it.
There's nothing to analyze,
Nothing to figure out.
We're living in a world where the foundations of truth are being stripped away.
Assumptions and beliefs,
Things that we've held to be true for a very long time,
The stability of those truths is no longer firm.
It's not just fake news and alternative facts and the manipulation of social media.
It's also the fact that many white people have felt having a black friend was enough to separate us from racism.
So many things that we have held to be true are unraveling.
But that's not because there is no truth.
It's so a deeper truth can be revealed.
So how do we find that deeper truth?
How do we know what truth is?
We don't know it with the mind.
But there is a capacity in every person to know the truth,
To sense what's true.
And of course there are deeper and deeper layers of truth.
And so we have to go deeper and deeper inside of ourselves to find the places where the deeper layers of truth resonate.
So we can feel this body breathing and know that's true.
And beneath the breathing of the body we can feel and know I am alive.
There is life animating this form.
And beneath the life we can say,
I am aware of this life in this body.
I am awareness.
This is a deep truth.
I am the light of awareness.
The light of awareness has no needs.
It doesn't depend on anything.
It's clear.
It's not afraid of anything.
It doesn't cling to anything and it doesn't hide from anything.
I am embodied awareness.
I am awareness inside of life,
Inside of matter.
I am the light of awareness.
I am the light of awareness.
I am the light of awareness.
I am the light of awareness.
I am the light of awareness.
I am the light of awareness.
I am the light of awareness.
I am the light of awareness.
I am the light of awareness.
I am the light of awareness.
I am awareness.
The radiance of embodied awareness is truth.
And so it recognizes truth through resonance.
It can feel and sense the vibration of truth.
When something is half true and half false,
Or falsehood parading as truth,
Clothing itself in half truths,
The radiant light of awareness,
Embodied awareness,
Can sense that,
Feels something's not quite right.
Thoughts are not like this.
Thoughts are easily confused,
Manipulated,
Entangled,
Run in circles.
Thoughts can't tell what's true.
But there's a discerning radiance of embodied awareness in each of us that can sense the truth.
And because that radiance is truth,
Self-evident,
Clear,
It doesn't need to argue.
It doesn't need to pressure.
It just shines.
When we speak from this place within us,
The truth that we speak is not hidden.
It's not obscured.
It's not muted.
It's clear and simple,
But it also involves no pressure,
No manipulation,
No control.
A candle flame dispels darkness just by being.
And the radiance of embodied awareness dispels falsehood just by being.
And when we live and move and speak from this place,
The falsehood in our lives is dispelled.
And there's no difference between this embodied radiant awareness and love.
Not the emotional entanglement of love that often has falsehood woven into it,
But clear,
Confident,
Simple,
A love that doesn't have a bottom,
That doesn't worry about running out,
A love that can flow freely and bless all beings.
And so we can say,
I am embodied love.
I am love and truth embodied.
I have no agenda other than to be.
Yoga is the practice of joining,
Yoking all these layers of the self so that the deepest,
Most clear is fully integrated,
Fully infused into the most surface layers so that our embodiment is true.
This is why we're here.
This is the journey that each of us is on.
It's toward greater integration of all the layers of self so that the radiance of truth and love shines out through the embodiment.
Thank you.
A corrupted and corroded structures of our life,
Of our collective life,
The structures that we've built a society on are falling away.
They're breaking down.
And in the midst of this,
We have a choice.
We can cling to them for out of fear that will be swallowed up out of fear that without any structure,
There'll be chaos.
We can cling to the false truths that have supported our individual lives,
Our livelihoods,
Our society,
Or we can release them and know that there's a deeper truth that's emerging and deeper truth that's not corrupted and corroded by falsehood.
We can seek in ourselves that deeper truth and stand with it and rise with it and let a new society be created from it.
May the blessings of the truth that is love flow through all of life and may all beings awaken to their nature as the truth that is love.
May we work together to incorporate this deeper truth into every aspect of our lives.
We're coming to the end of the meditation.
May your day be blessed.
