So start again with some belly breaths,
Letting yourself settle into this moment.
Feel yourself in your seat.
Feel your contact with the floor and the building you're in.
Really,
Really let yourself feel the holding and the support.
Sense Mother Earth beneath,
Holding each of us in this moment,
Offering us nourishment in terms of air,
Food and water.
Some people feel the contact with Mother Earth as a kind of energetic tingling,
Either on the soles of their feet and or the backs of their calves.
If you're having that tingling feeling,
That's probably what's happening.
Start by bringing awareness to the hara.
Let me ring the bell.
Breathe into the hara,
Letting your awareness and consciousness deeply settle and land.
Let go of any need to do.
Just be landed in the hara,
Breathing in and out of the hara,
Being as fully present to your experience as is possible.
Using your in-breath,
Invite awareness into the heart area,
Making contact with your innate goodness,
The goodness that we don't create or fabricate.
It is not a goodness of comparison,
Good versus bad.
This is a goodness that's present,
Even if we were to act in a way we consider to be bad,
As this is a quality,
An unconditioned quality of the absolute.
We don't need to earn it.
And we can't do anything to lose it.
You may notice it from its light buoyancy,
The kind of uplifting support,
Or a radiant warm flow,
A kind of movement,
Like a summer breeze on a cool day.
Relax awareness into innate goodness,
Feeling the support,
The holding.
Innate goodness affords us.
Let go of any planning about the future,
Any remorse or remembering about the past.
Let yourself be fully in this moment.
This one breath is the only moment that exists.
So be fully here in deepening contact with your innate goodness.
Using your in-breath,
Bring awareness to the center of your forehead,
To the wisdom eye.
You might feel a slight bit of pressure,
Or even a quality like the fluttering of eyelids,
Of an eye trying to open.
Or you may feel nothing at all.
Any of those is fine.
Let go of expecting any result or any development.
I have to stay with a curiosity and an I don't know perspective.
Using your in-breath,
Invite awareness to the crown chakra,
Breathing in and out,
Letting the crown chakra open,
Allowing the flow.
Notice the vast blackness that's present before us,
Like deep outer space with no planets or stars,
Vast unending blackness in every direction.
Let your awareness move a little deeper into the blackness,
Smooth,
Zinky blackness,
Feeling the quality of home,
Kind of a sense I belong.
I know who I am when I'm here.
Feel that quality of peace,
The relaxation,
The ease.
Letting the peace touch any part of you that's present,
Soothing,
Relaxing,
Unwinding.
Open a little more fully,
Relax any sense of doing.
Let go of any urge to get anywhere but here.
Open your awareness to the deep peace,
The vast luminous blackness of the absolute.
Feel that sense of belonging.
Everything is right here.
Some level,
I get it.
The absence is a comfort.
Notice the deep peace that's here,
Smoothing,
Unbinding whatever it meets.
Be willing to soften any identity that's here,
Unclenching that muscle of identity,
Letting go of any doing or need to get anywhere.
Feel that deep stillness that's here.
It's so still,
There's almost a kind of noise to the stillness,
A vibration of no noise.
Open more fully to receive,
Letting yourself be penetrated by this deep peace and profound stillness.
As we journey a little deeper into the absence,
Open to the peace,
Letting it be received as fully as possible.
Follow the stillness like a lighted path,
Deeper and deeper still.
Relax any tension or holding,
Relax any whisper of identity.
It's not needed here.
You're fine just as you are.
Let the stillness draw awareness deeper,
Deeper into this vastness.
A little deeper still.
You might be sensing a little sense of a pull,
Kind of inner tractor beam,
Very subtle.
I can feel a little pull,
An invitation.
This is the portal of cessation.
This is the source of all power,
All peace,
All stillness.
I'm going to abide here for about 30 minutes and then I'll ring the bell.
