So this week we've been speaking about how do we come into the experience of love.
I think of my beloved teacher,
Joan Sival,
And I experience love.
I look towards a blue sky and I experience love.
I hear the sweet serenade of a bird and I experience love.
Through some process of cognition facilitated by the mind.
Cognizing specific things.
With specific characteristics.
Associations.
This is how I love.
This is how I come into the experience of love.
Then there is the experience of love that comes about when the mind is quiet.
When we're not cognizing this or that.
Not even in thought are we cognizing this or that.
An open awareness that quite mysteriously in its non-selectiveness emerges effulgent.
Radiant.
Beaming.
And whatsoever falls into the vector of this open awareness is love.
And loved.
Both subject and object.
It happens quite mysteriously.
And this is the love that the great spiritual masters speak of.
The love that is of no mind.
Find a comfortable seat.
We'll begin by chanting Aum three times.
Exhale all the air out.
Inhale a breath.
Aum.
Aum.
Make any final adjustments in your seat.
And then allow yourself to settle in and settle down.
Allowing your sit bones to descend.
Feeling a spreading through the legs.
An expansion of your seat.
An expansion of the invitation to sit with yourself.
Allow yourself to become a passenger of your breath.
For some that means meeting the breath,
Perhaps at the opening of the nostrils.
And traveling up the nasal pathways with the breath.
For others,
Meeting the breath at any or every opening of the skin.
Feeling through every pore of the skin.
Observing the porous nature of this very body.
This container,
We'd like to believe,
Separates the self from the other.
Rather observe how deeply connected,
How intimately connected our inner and outer realities are.
The false veil of separation.
Your body pulsating.
Infused with this vitality.
This quality of illumination.
Give light to that which is making itself known through you.
Instead directing a flashlight to unseen parts of the self.
Feel the breath providing that light.
That opening to breathe into.
What is fear?
Allowing for the body's natural breath.
Not practicing any form of breathing.
Not practicing at all.
Giving up all practices.
Intended to hide.
To cover up.
Just push down.
Give up all practices.
And with the body's natural breath,
See this occasion of meditation.
As an allowing of what is here.
And give permission for that open awareness.
And aside from that,
Do nothing else.
Just watch.
In that open awareness,
Just watch.
And allow.
Without engaging in a back and forth.
Be a witness.
Understanding what needs to be felt.
The full depth of it.
What needs to be heard.
The full range of it.
Allow the feeling to exhaust itself.
Express itself fully.
Do absolutely nothing.
Just allow.
Endless body's exercise.
Giving into deeper and deeper layers of allowing.
Izzz of open awareness.
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When we give permission for existence to enter.
Uninterrupted by thought.
Fully giving in to the flow of existence.
Feel your electromagnetic body.
Savor it.
Savor it.
Savor it.
Without being in a rush.
Fold the arms to the torso.
Fold the arms to the torso.
Bend one leg then the other.
Roll to your right side.
Come to sit up.
A lot of palms to join.
We'll end by chanting all at once.
Inhale a breath.
Ooooooooh.
Namaste.
