The Great Maitreya

"This is a very rooted way of knowing oneself, an important experience in the body is to feel settled and what that opens up is a place that all is well, it's really the only refuge that is, that's constant this deep resting is the real refuge through everything, all experiences, and then it continues on when the body drops away. That's when the fear of death drops away."

Transcript

This is a very rooted way of knowing oneself.

It's very rooted.

And so you sense that in your body the tailbone just drops and there's like a line that just goes,

It just dives.

And if you find a place that it wants to pop back,

You know,

Which is quite common,

Or you can't go below the neck or the waist,

Just rest in that place that it is kind of,

That gate's closed.

And the only reason it's closed is,

You know,

It's either habit or there's been a great deal of trauma in the body.

So it isn't like you,

You know,

Like force it.

It's just rest in that place,

But rest in a very settled and kind of expansive way.

So wherever you find that lock,

Just rest there for a little while with your attention and that sense of stillness and nourishment and,

You know,

The potentiality,

The ground is the potentiality,

The pregnant quality of all things.

And if this is,

This channel is really quite open,

Consciously open for you,

Wonderful.

Just,

But don't find a place that you're familiar or comfortable with.

Go a bit beyond what you are familiar with.

And as we were exploring the other day,

It isn't like a long thin dive.

It's like as it descends,

It also extends.

And it's a spontaneous movement.

And then there's like a sense of like resting and,

You know,

The oceanic metaphor is really perfect.

It's like you're resting in sort of in this ocean of dark,

Rich,

Moral-like,

Nourishing,

Still,

Unfathomably peaceful,

Suchness.

So the paradox is it's very,

Very settled.

But at the same time,

It's unfathomably settled.

In fact,

The beautiful Lama calls it the deep holding.

So it's deep and it never really finds a place of ending.

But the paradox is it's very stable.

There's a profound holding or stability.

I love living near mountains because it has that sense of,

You know,

That the iron mountain.

And yet it continually falls away.

There is no end to that depth.

And the body knows this.

The mind really doesn't,

But the body knows it's home.

And so you begin to trust the body knowing itself as this stillness,

Rootedness.

And the mind,

When it wants to chatter and talk,

You know,

It's okay.

It's just it's kind of like a child,

You know,

That likes to take walks with you and the dog and the child just chatters.

And the parent goes,

Mm-hmm,

Yeah,

Mm-hmm,

Yeah,

Yeah,

Sort of like that.

And eventually then the child runs off and interested in a rock or a flower.

And so the mind's sort of like that.

You don't have to fight it.

But there's nobody there that's identified or tuning into it.

And as it just becomes more and more still and deeper and deeper and more expansive and more settled.

And that's a very important familiar experience in the body is to feel settled.

Like you can,

You know,

Again like a child settling in the mother's lap.

Or you'll feel like a kitten or a cat,

You know,

Or a dog.

They'll kind of come in and settle in.

And what that opens up is is a place of all is well.

There may be all hell breaking loose in your mind or family or something around you,

The world,

And yet one can rest in this refuge.

It's really the only refuge there is that's constant.

We look for it in family and money and children and jobs and a healthy body and all of that.

But all of that's temporary.

It's very very temporary.

But this deep resting is the real refuge through everything,

All experiences,

And then it continues on.

When the body drops away that's when the fear of death drops away.

And then sense,

It isn't like you kind of imagine or make it up.

It's more like a sensing.

It's a palpable quality.

And you just sense that the air around you that seems,

You know,

Like there's nothing there.

It's air.

But when you open in a more of a inclusive way you sense it that it's very alive.

It's quite vibrant.

And so you sense it all the way through the body,

You know,

The top of the head,

The neck,

Down into the torso,

Down into the belly and below,

And the legs down through the feet.

And you just sense that what is within is without.

You know,

The boundary in a certain way,

Though it still exists,

In a way it all disappears.

And there's just this one being,

Alive,

Vibrant presence.

And for some,

You know,

There's an experience and it changes here at least,

But for some it's an experience of a very deep,

Almost velvety black.

And for others it has like,

You know,

Kind of like wavelets of light that flows through it.

Almost like,

It's like the clear light.

It hasn't come into luminosity.

And then for others perhaps they experience,

I think with the full moon we're experiencing a little more luminosity because it's pouring into the earth.

It's such a vibrancy and so the dark is filled with this kind of a light that can be white,

Like a luminous quality.

And there's moments that it becomes brilliant and,

You know,

The light becomes so bright that it consumes everything.

But you still sense all the way through it and behind it and below it is that sense of stillness.

Stillness in the brilliance.

That's the natural state.

But each moment perhaps brings a little bit different configuration.

Sometimes it's very,

Very deep and still.

Absolute nothing.

No thing.

And then other times it's very full and vibrant and and perhaps those that work like a painter or there's a lot of color,

You know,

That also comes out of the white light,

Right?

It's prismatic.

And then something gets up off the cushion and walks around and it talks and interacts and acts like it's a individual.

And then that stimulus stops and and then it kind of just goes back to the home ground.

So those controls of it should be this way or it should look this way or it should be experienced that way.

All of that really falls away because it's constantly being each moment draws forth or it lets go,

Surrenders to the silent ground.

So in this vibrancy that is all around and all the way through,

Then just open it up.

It's like the contraction is held as a it's a habit in the in the muscles and it's most contracted around the eyeballs and it's most contracted in the center of the forehead because we're such a mental culture.

So it's just very helpful to like it just extend that contracted attention and just extend it and extend it and extend it and extend it and extend it until there's it's impossible to to think or identify because it's only possible to think separately or identify with contraction.

So expansion,

Space,

Sort of opens all that up and and there you are.

It isn't like you know you need to be a perfect spiritual person in order for this to be intimately experienced.

You just open up and then it becomes an open attention.

It's very bright and vital.

So many experiences in meditation kind of adrift and a dull and you know spacey but that's just the mind's sort of interpretation.

The reality is no matter how extended the open attention is,

It's always equally bright and vital.

And really sense that that brightness and it's very vibrant and it's vibrant below and all around and to the left and to the right and to the above and all the way through.

It's one field of being,

One fabric of being,

The great interconnectedness.

All that have looked have discovered the same interconnectedness.

There's no exception.

They may describe it different according to culture and gender and history and language but it's always the same.

And the more you open in that kind of that horizontal extension you may notice that the the shift in the interior light also changes.

It may become more luminous,

More vibrant,

Maybe a little bit of you know color.

All systems are wired up quite uniquely.

And in this we're going to work a little bit you know though we're quite stable and there's a deep rootedness and the essence and the central channel is quite awake and you know it's continual and it's vibrant.

But at this point it's to then bring the attention.

It's still very spacious and quite open but just slightly it's just a slight movement of attention.

You bring it and it comes out of the interior of the skull and it goes to this great ascent.

And it comes up out of the the deepest silent root and it pours up through the interior of the central channel and it pours out of the crown and it continually pours forth and comes back in and it arises and it pours forth in these beautiful brilliant streams of golden light.

And it's the fountain that never runs dry.

In truth each time it arises and comes back for itself up through the central channel it becomes more.

It becomes greater.

Now there can be this very subtle shift and that very subtle shift is instead of the central channel simply being just within this human individual construct that very subtle shift now it becomes the cosmic central channel.

And instead of and it includes of course this individual but it becomes the great ox's moon day of the earth.

And again it's the same channel it's the same fundamental subtle anatomy of all things.

You know you think of a redwood tree it has that same central channel as the human spine.

And it comes up out of the emptiness out of the vast nothingness nothing and arises and it bursts forth in a myriad of streams and radiant expressions of itself.

And then the body and the earth one root one central channel one central arising of the vast love the Christ did.

And once again it flows back unto itself it arises now into the cosmic channel that flows through the human body and it flows through the earth and it flows through the great being all one.

As it arises bursts and flows forth in these great rays and streams the Maya trea is at the very peak of it all.

And it's the Maya trea of the individuation it's the Maya trea of the earth and it's the Maya trea the cosmic universal being of love and compassion.

Ever flowing ever expanding ever growing ever more.

It's not some sweet spiritual idealism it's the actuality in truth it's more of the actuality than the thoughts that we hold in our head that says this or that.

We just simply haven't opened to it and this great being this great golden radiant being that is the overriding blessing of it all is a part of us as well.

And this life receives that blessing continuously it's really a matter of opening to it.

And it's not going to make you not be able to deal with your life in truth you will be it's like a fountain that's constantly nourishing your life your life with your children with your partner with your garden with your animal companions with the actions that happen upon the earth to love and support and to touch the earth and her creation in a good way.

In a kind way in an informed way of what we are and what all of this is.

It's one of the great tragedies of the human species is that we've kept that away we've sort of blocked that off from our lives we try to separate it all out.

We either want to like fly up to the heaven and hang out with the maya traya or we want to like deny all of that and try to live our lives cut off from that.

They're both just not how it is.

It's the great spiral or circle of stepping out of time and space and the linear structure into the great being.

That's what stepping out of the karmic wheel is.

But at the same time this is sort of this golden radiance that pours forth and fills itself up with this golden light.

It permeates then the karmic wheel.

It permeates life as it is.

It doesn't abandon it.

It isn't either or.

It's just now the experience and the vision and the view is coming from the timeless the great being and then it comes in and permeates and transmutes and resolves itself in this field of radiance.

The living waters.

So in your own beautifully perfect unique way open up and experience what you are and what the maya traya actually is.

And the pouring forth and the radiant fountain that pours forth and fills back up and pours forth and fills back off even greater and greater and greater and greater and greater.

Receive the wholeness of what you are and let it permeate the humanness as well as the great vast awake space of what you are.

It's not to.

It cannot be.

There's no one left out of this.

And all of those that have awoken to the to the Christ,

This is the Christ,

Knows that and knows that no one can be left out of it.

That's the fabric of love.

And then whatever arises that wants to liberate to be redeemed,

There's almost a,

I don't know,

Like a jubilation of this too,

This too,

This too.

I get to love this back home.

And this heart and the universal heart is one thing.

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