Hello dear ones and welcome to today's meditation,
A emptiness meditation just arriving now fully into the space allowing yourself to settle and arrive in the room you are in gently closing down your eyes if that feels comfortable for you and when you are ready dear ones we shall begin allowing your body to be exactly as it is in this moment feeling the simple fact of weight the body is held by the floor,
The chair,
The earth nothing to do just become aware of your body now letting your attention widen noticing sounds as they arise sounds inside sounds outside do not follow the sounds just letting them pass through sounds coming into awareness and then disappearing rising and falling away now noticing sensations in the body tightness warmth softness numbness the subtle flow of energy that keeps you alive they appear on their own and they disappear on their own appearing and disappearing now gently turn your attention inward not toward your thoughts themselves but toward the space in which thoughts appear thoughts may come let them thoughts will go let them notice that the space in which thoughts appear does not change begin to sense the background of experience before sensation before thought before any sense of me there is a quiet openness here do not try to name it do not try to hold it just notice that it is already present now imagine very gently that everything you believe yourself to be is allowed to soften your name your history your role in the world not rejected not denied just loosened like clothing placed on the ground notice what remains when nothing is being worn there is still awareness there is still presence there is still being and just rest here this is not emptiness in the way the mind imagines it is not dark it is not blank it is not absent it is full without content alive without movement if the mind says am i doing this right just notice that thought and notice that thought appears in the same space if a sense of self returns i am meditating i am remembering i am here let that be included too the voyage does not exclude anything now sensing something subtle this space is not watching from a distance it is intimate closer than breath closer than thought it is what is hearing these words rest as that not observing it not entering it simply being it if emotion arises fear arises joy anger just let it float emptiness does not react it allows resting here in this space gently noticing that this has always been here it did not arrive it will not leave even when attention moves even when the world appears and characters resume this remains untouched you are not returning to the world the world is appearing within this space when you are ready allowing the body to move if it wants to move sounds to be heard if they want to be heard eyes to open or remain closed nothing is lost nothing is added the void was never empty it was never hidden it is simply what you are have a wonderful day dear ones
