And settling into your meditation posture,
Something that's comfortable with an erect spine,
An awake posture.
And as we start to formally meditate,
It's a kind of a transition point.
It's drawing your awareness down into the lower part of the belly.
Bring attention to the breath,
Into the lower part of the belly.
Just feeling into it.
Bring attention to the breath,
This kind of non-conceptual anchor.
And drawing us out of the abstract,
Out of the narrative of the mind into something concrete.
And in the present moment,
Just the breath breathing into the belly.
Just allowing attention to descend from the mind into the belly.
Perhaps noticing what happens when you rest attention in the belly.
Noticing how bringing attention to the belly,
How it might affect the body and the mind.
You're not trying to change anything in your experience,
Simply noticing the breath in the belly as it breathes naturally.
And just noticing what's present,
How there's this interconnection between the breath in the belly and the entirety of your inner experience in body and mind.
And to recognize that everything in your experience is interconnected.
It's whole.
I'm just sensing into this deeply.
Being very receptive to the natural unfolding of experience of the breath,
The body,
Mind and heart.
And sensing into how the quality of the breath is a direct reflection of the quality of the mind and the heart.
When the breath is easy and soft,
You may notice that the mind is easy and soft.
That's not grasping or pushing away or struggling or controlling with your moment to moment experience.
It's all interconnected.
Part of the practice of meditation,
Part of the insight,
Especially in meditation,
Is seeing this complex of interconnected interactions in the mind,
Body,
Heart.
Again,
Not trying to change it.
So it's not like we're trying to make it a particular way.
Just noticing how everything interconnects as a whole.
Sensing into the wholeness.
Yeah.
Now noticing the space around the breath and resting awareness in that area.
It's kind of the still,
Quiet space that exists around the breath.
Seeing the entirety of your experience from the place of this silent,
Still awareness.
Seeing the present moment,
What arises in the present moment,
As an interdependent totality or whole,
Not as a duality.
Seeing that everything that arises as natural,
Interdependent natural processes,
Simply nature unfolding.
The body and mind is not so different from the unfolding of weather patterns or the unfolding of any other natural process.
Seeing that any aspect of our experience,
Whether it be a thought,
An emotion,
Body sensation,
It's just arising,
Happening,
And ceasing based on causes and conditions.
From your place of still awareness,
That space around the breath,
Simply allowing all the interdependent activity to play out,
To unfold without any interference.
And at the same time serving the interrelationship of all these processes.
Just watching,
Watching the unfolding,
Without judging,
Just noticing and seeing.
Okay.
Perfect.
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