Awakening Compassion As Your True Nature

In this meditation, we explore the deep connection between compassion and wisdom, and how they are not separate paths but two expressions of the same awakened heart. Rather than something we need to attain, compassion is revealed as an innate quality of our true nature—already present, simply waiting to be remembered. Through gentle awareness and presence, we learn to sense into this inner reservoir of care and let it move through us into the world. Compassion is not a reaction; it is who we are when we are fully here.

Transcript

Just settling into your formal meditation posture.

Having a comfortable position as we begin to engage in a compassion guided meditation.

So posture that leans more towards comfort,

But is also upright if possible.

Just begin by settling into the body,

Drawing your attention from the mind and the head area and letting it descend down into the belly.

Letting attention just settle into the depth of the abdomen area.

And just breathing into that area for a few moments.

I'm not trying to control the breath,

But just feeling the breath as it goes down into the abdomen quite naturally.

Just letting the mind be as it is as we instead focus on the breath and the belly.

So this meditation is a compassion meditation that recognizes that love and compassion are inherent qualities in every human being that can be evoked or touched in particular ways.

We're allowing our attention now to expand from the breath and the belly to also include the body and seeing if we can bring stillness to the body.

Recognizing that we can't force the mind to be still.

You can simply notice the processes of thought unfold.

But we can commit to the body being still,

Just kind of setting that intention.

The body be still.

Sometimes the body might want to discharge some energy,

Adjust itself,

And that's fine.

Simply noticing that this is happening.

And recommit yourself to being still in the body.

Feeling into this quiet and stillness that's always present.

Perhaps noticing if there's any areas of tension in the body.

Simply bringing awareness,

Noticing that tension,

Letting it be.

Perhaps noticing that simple act of bringing attention to tension.

What happens?

We're not trying to make anything happen.

We're just noticing what happens.

Just taking a moment to scan the body and see if there's any areas where there's unnecessary tension or holding.

Recognizing that the attention itself is the invitation to soften in the areas of tension.

Let's focus on this region at the moment with plates.

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