Good morning everybody.
I hope you slept well whenever your slumber has ended,
That was just a few minutes ago,
Or a few hours ago.
So this meditation is one for the morning.
It's one to wake up to.
I want to acknowledge that there might be some sounds of motorbikes driving by in the background and I just want to encourage you to deepen into this advanced version of meditation because meditation is always happening.
I think we like to think of meditation as sitting in this nice quiet room and that's like intro to meditation when everything's perfect.
But the real meditation happens when we're at the bus stop and we're waiting for our bus and it's late and the cars are honking.
That's the real ashram.
So I'll try to edit out the sounds but I invite you to experience the sounds fully and invite them into the meditation whether it's the crickets in the background or the symphony of life that's happening.
So let's begin.
Whether you want to be seated or moving,
Let's just say that you're in the middle of a meditation.
Let's use this as a meditation to wake up the body.
There's a man hanging from his teeth on this tree branch.
Hanging on for dear life,
Squeezing on the tree branch,
Knowing that if he lets go he'll fall to his death.
His jaw is getting tired.
He's squeezing and squeezing and all of a sudden this Zen monk walks by below him.
Zen monk smiles and yells up to the man,
Say the one word that will save your life.
Say the one word that will save your life.
Today we are going to be falling into grace as we move through our journey in the day,
As we start to awaken the body and embody the soul.
We're going to say yes.
We're going to start to experience the air filling our lungs and start to recognize that if there was no air there's no us.
That as we see this oxygen inviting into the body,
Our entire body responds.
We are connected to everything.
If there was no oxygen,
No human.
If there was no cosmos,
There would be no human.
If there was no universe,
There would be no humans.
We are interconnected.
There was no universe,
There would be no humans.
We are interconnected with everything.
Can you feel it?
Can you feel the oxygen around your body supporting you,
Hugging you?
Can you feel the earth beneath you?
Can you feel our deep interwovenness?
And again,
Wherever you are,
If it feels good for you,
Start to roll the spine,
Start to move the head,
The shoulders,
And see if you can do it for yourself.
And see if you can do it from a space not of the mind but of the body wanting to move.
This intuitive force within us asking you to do something you may have never done before.
Moving your body in a way that has never moved.
What wants to happen?
What wants to happen?
Let your intuition,
Let that soft voice within you move you.
A beautiful teacher,
Ajay Shanti,
Says our life does not belong to us.
It belongs to consciousness.
And consciousness just wants to wake up to itself.
That's its only desire.
It wants to wake up through it.
It wants to wake up to itself.
That's its only desire.
It wants to wake up through you.
And it's going to give you the life that it needs to wake up through you.
So guess what?
The more you resist,
The harder it's going to get because it's going to wake up whether you like it or not.
This life,
Next life,
10 lives.
But the more we can start to say yes to everything,
It wakes up.
It doesn't need to push as hard.
Does that mean you're going to have an easier life?
Maybe,
Maybe not.
But as you can feel the body moving you,
That's the consciousness.
That's it's bigger than us.
It's the big eye,
Not the little eye.
So what happens when I say yes to the big eye?
What happens when I say yes to the thing that the little eye doesn't want?
Oh,
I don't want to have that conversation.
Let's do it.
I know that it is here to wake the big eye up.
What happens then?
Starting to find stillness in the body and start to recognize the movement of sensation and energy and breath within the body.
Notice within our stillness how much motion occurs.
Notice within our stillness how much motion occurs.
Still in motion.
It's like when you shake a snow globe.
You shake it and you shake it and then you stop and all the snow comes down.
Notice the dust settle.
Notice everything start to settle.
And just for one moment start to recognize that if you hold your thoughts just for one moment you can feel that there's still something there.
That there is this bigger self that is always witnessing.
And that our thoughts happen within that space.
Within this great silence.
Meditation is the art of acknowledging what is already there.
You're already there.
Everything's already here.
No need to seek.
Just to acknowledge.
Is it true that the peace and the love that I have been seeking is not already present within me?
Is it true that the peace and the love that I have been seeking is not already present within me?
Be in the now.
Be here now.
There's nowhere else to be.
There's nowhere else you can be.
You can try.
But there's nowhere else you can be.
That's what it means to say yes.
That's what it means to say yes.
Taking just a few more moments to settle into this energetic body.
This form and formless body that we are.
We are spirit.
We are form.
We are nature.
We're part of everything.
We are interconnected.
You cannot have one without the other.
You cannot have a tree without the earth beneath it,
Without the sun above it.
What happens when you give your life back to consciousness?
What happens when you let life live you?
We can place our hands on our heart.
And feel the heart pumping.
You can feel the light.
Say the one word that will save your life.
The enlightened in me sees and honors the enlightened in you.
Namaste.
Thank you.
Thank you.
