Hello and welcome to the Daily Insight.
My name is Seda and in today's meditation we will explore what happens when we let go of the meditator.
I invite you to find a comfortable position on which allows your body to fully relax and let go.
Close your eyes and begin by breathing completely out through your mouth until you've exhaled every last drop of breath.
Now breathe in through your nose for 4 seconds.
Hold your breath for 7 seconds.
And breathe out through your mouth for 8 seconds.
While it may sound bewildering to a mind that is programmed to seek,
Our goal today is to let go of doing.
We will not be practicing any technique but endeavoring to discover the peace that is here before we go looking for it.
We are returning to our natural,
Uncontrived state.
When we let go of the meditator,
We give ourselves permission to reconnect with the body.
What happens when we surrender fully to reality as it is?
What happens when we let go of effort,
Focus and striving and simply rest in being?
Take a moment now to check in for yourself.
Am I surrendering fully to this moment?
Allow your body to melt into this experience.
Rest your bones.
Rest your heart.
Rest your mind.
Give your body permission to fully uncoil and unwind.
Give the seeking mind a break.
As you let go of more and more effort,
You may discover points of tension,
Points of energetic holding and resistance.
This is perfectly natural.
Feel into them and ask,
Can I let this experience simply be without trying to alter it?
Can I allow this too to be a part of my reality?
No need to change it or force it to flow.
Can I give up my fight with reality?
Can I give up my resistance to this moment?
And as you let go,
You may discover that surrender opens up further and further.
You may discover deeper layers of holding.
Allow these to be as well.
Let go deeper and deeper.
As you let go of more effort and control,
You are creating the space to discover a natural openness,
A spacious awareness.
Notice how this field of awake presence is always available,
Asking nothing of you.
It does not ask for striving or effort.
You do not have to attain it.
You only need to look here now with an open innocence.
What do you find?
Pure effortless peace.
Notice how effortlessly this space arises.
This gift is grace.
And the nature of grace is that we do not have to earn it.
It is our birthright as human beings.
The only requirement is our willingness to open and receive it fully.
When the mind comes in to ask questions,
Notice that too.
But keep watching.
What happens when we let go of control,
Of striving,
Of the meditator?
Listen with your whole body to the answer.
Notice that this space exists without strain and without effort.
We are naturally awake.
This silence that we are has no argument with reality.
It simply witnesses.
The mind can't understand it or make sense of it.
It may chime in and ask how it can help.
Let the mind know that it's not needed here.
We are making just enough effort to let go of effort.
And our movement is always in the direction of less and less effort.
Into the peace which surpasses all understanding.
If your mind wanders,
Come back to this present moment.
Notice what it feels like to be the space in which everything arises.
What does it feel like to be the peace in which the body breathes?
What happens when we rest here,
Simply being?
Open,
Innocent and free.
What happens when instead of seeking to create and earn what we are,
We allow ourselves to remember it?
Allow yourself to be caught by a hunter of this magnitude.
To become a wave turning to the headwaters of its source.
Let yourself be lovingly held.
It may be a revelation to discover that all which the meditator is seeking,
The peace,
Presence and joy of being is right here,
Already.
Your uncontrived natural state.
I wish you a beautiful day full of the peace that you are.
