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Meditation 10 Emptiness vibrating in emptiness.
In the last meditation,
Our first yoga meditation.
We began to explore the felt sense of the body.
In relation to our new understanding.
We will continue with that exploration now.
Be knowingly the vast,
Spacious,
Luminous presence of awareness.
Understand.
And feel yourself as the aware,
Unfocused openness in which all experience is arising.
Close your eyes.
And imagine yourself.
As a newborn infant.
Without a past.
Without a name.
Without any prior knowledge that limits you in any way.
Now allow the breath to come to your attention.
But immediately drop the label breath.
The newborn infant knows nothing of breath.
It's just a gentle,
Transparent sensation or vibration.
Now visualize and feel.
That the breath is initiated in the space in front of the body.
Feel that the space in front of the sensation is doing the breathing.
Breathe slowly and deeply like a sleeping baby.
With each inhale.
Feel that the breath originates in the space in front of the face.
And inhale through the surface of the face.
Feel that the face is not something solid.
Dense and heavy.
It is a transparent,
Weightless,
Empty vibration.
And the breath seeps into it.
All over its porous front surface.
And as you exhale.
Exhale into the space behind the head.
And allow the next inhale.
To start from the space behind the head.
It seeps into the tingling,
Amorphous vibration of the head.
All over its porous back surface.
And then pours out into the space in front.
From where the next breath is initiated.
Long,
Slow,
Deep breaths,
Back and forth.
From the space in front.
Through the head.
Out into the space behind the head.
From where the next breath is initiated.
All there is to our experience of the face and head.
Is a porous,
Transparent vibration.
Which offers no resistance to the transparency of the breath.
Space permeating space.
Emptiness flowing through emptiness.
The head is one of the main locations of the apparently separate self.
This is where we locate Eye the Seer.
I the hearer.
Either smeller,
Either taster.
I the thinker.
Feel all the little tensions and contractions in the face and the back of the head.
Being gradually permeated and softened as the empty loving substance of the breath.
Flows back and forth through them.
Feel the sensation of the throat and neck.
Feel any tensions or contractions there?
Visualize and feel that the breath is initiated in the space in front of the throat and neck.
Breathe this empty loving substance through the permeable surface of the neck.
Out into the space behind.
From where the next breath is initiated.
Don't impose the belief in a dead,
Inert material called air that you are breathing.
We are breathing the loving,
Transparent emptiness of awareness back and forth through the head.
Allowing the sensation to be completely permeated by it.
Allow the sensation of the chest and heart area to come to your attention.
The heart is the other main residence of the separate self.
This is where we find I.
The one who has been repeatedly hurt,
I the one who feels ashamed,
Guilty,
Fearful,
Unlovable,
Lonely or sad.
Visualize and feel that this sensation is suspended weightlessly.
In the open,
Empty,
Loving space of awareness.
Breathing this loving substance all over the entire porous surface of the sensation.
Allowing the chest area to fill up on the inhale.
And then the breath seeps out into the space behind on the exhale.
From where the next inhale is initiated.
With each inhale.
Allow the density of the vibration.
To be gradually permeated by the emptiness of the breath.
Before it seeps out into the space behind.
Allow the sensation of the belly to come to your attention.
Breathe this empty loving substance back and forth through it.
Allow the pelvic area and your legs to come to your attention.
Feel that the sensation is suspended weightlessly in this open,
Empty,
Loving presence.
Breathe this loving substance in and out all over its entire porous surface.
Now feel the body as one whole amorphous tingling vibration.
No longer compartmentalize it.
The sensation is suspended weightlessly in a cocoon of transparent,
Empty loving awareness.
Breathe this loving,
Empty substance in and out,
No longer from front to back.
But all over the entire porous surface of the body.
And with each inhale feel that the sensation fills up with this loving emptiness and expands slightly.
And feel that as it expands,
Its density begins to thin out,
Like a cloud evaporating in all directions into the sky.
And as the sensation expands in all directions.
It becomes less and less dense.
As the density of the sensation flows out in all directions into the empty space.
And as the loving transparent space of awareness percolates into the sensation.
Their two substances are mixing more and more intimately with one another.
Like a cloud thinning out into the emptiness of the sky.
Visualize and feel that the sensation is expanded several meters in all directions.
Visualize and feel that you can no longer distinguish the loving space,
The breath.
And the sensation.
The cloud of sensation.
Has completely evaporated into the sky of awareness.
One seamless,
Intimate,
Indivisible whole.
A tingling amorphous.
Borderless vibration.
Appearing in.
And made of.
For loving.
Empty presence of awareness.
Emptiness.
Vibrating in emptiness.
That is your true body.
