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A Drop And The Ocean

by The Drunken Monk

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A beautiful guided meditation to bring the listener into a profound place of stillness by merging with the moment. Peters gentle guidance is weaved together with a soothing sound scape, enhanced with Binaural technology. Best of all, the session is lifted by an exquisite quote from Khalil Gibran that will guide you into a deep peace, an ideal moment to fall into a restful and nourishing sleep, or to move into a creative activity where the mind is perfectly still and your heart open.

MeditationStillnessBinaural TechnologySleepCreativityMoment AwarenessBody SofteningEnergy ExpansionLetting GoHeart OpeningLoving KindnessEmotional DissolutionPoetryKhalil Gibran

Transcript

Let's start by merging with the moment.

How do you do that?

What's your way to merge the feeling of expanding into the moment where the body softens as you breathe out,

Energy expands and your awareness increases.

As if that's the case in your experience,

Letting go,

Letting go is another word for the same thing.

Another way of approaching it is being open,

Body opens like a flower to the sun,

The heart opens as a more direct connection to the experience of this moment.

Notice how you're feeling as you do that.

For some people it's easier to focus on listening,

For others feeling,

For others following a breath,

Whatever path you choose is arriving at the same place,

A drop merging with the ocean and being open and allowing,

Allowing your nature,

Your well-being to arise.

There's no effort for that,

It's like unclenching a fist,

Just allow your hand to open,

Giving space and in that space,

The freshness of the moment starts to flow and it feels nice.

With each moment,

A new freshness and another moment and each moment dropping in a little more and a little more.

As we go deeper into the moment,

When we let go and merge,

It's natural that things float to the surface that have been held back,

Pushed down and held in place by that tightness,

Attention.

What we do in our practice is to create an environment that when parts that have been held back start to float up,

They enter an environment where they're embraced with loving kindness,

Awareness and peace.

It makes it impossible for fear to exist,

The environment is too bright.

And this aspect of the practice is beautifully described in a poem by Khalil Gibran.

I'm going to read it to you.

It is said that before entering the sea,

A river trembles with fear.

She looks back at the path she has traveled from the peaks of the mountains to the long winding road crossing forests and villages.

In front of her,

She sees an ocean so vast that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.

But there is no other way.

The river cannot go back.

Nobody can go back.

It's impossible in existence.

The river has to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear.

Because that's where the river will know it's not about disappearing in the ocean.

But of becoming the ocean itself.

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Recent Reviews

Melanie

December 22, 2025

Your meditations are just something else and they resonate so very much with my heart. I am blessed to have found you or the meditations have found meπŸ™many blessings to you

Julia

November 18, 2025

I found this very soothing. Many thanks Peter πŸ™β€οΈπŸ’«

Kendall

September 13, 2025

Absolutely deepening and so relaxing. I truly was able to touch the living spirit in that meditation. Namaste.

Renee

September 12, 2025

Beautiful meditation and the poem at the end was magical, thank you πŸ™πŸ»

Tatyana

August 12, 2025

Love, love this meditation . Much love and gratitude for your soft and loving guidance β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈπŸ™πŸ™πŸ™

Don

February 23, 2025

This meditation created a beautiful image for me of becoming one with the whole. Very pleasant πŸ™

Karen

January 27, 2025

Great balance of useful verbal guidance with quiet for reflection. Thank you.

Faye

January 26, 2025

This is amazing, I just let go, I wish it was an hour long. Thank you 🧑

Kaitlyn

December 15, 2024

Beautiful and peaceful! I really loved this and will add it to my favorites. Thank you πŸ™πŸ»

Dave

November 25, 2024

Another interesting meditation. Thank you, Can you tell me why your Flowing into Stillness was removed? I listened to that meditation many times over the past years and now all of a sudden I can no longer find it.

Rebecca

August 22, 2024

What a beautiful way to begin my day. I found that incredibly moving. Thank you πŸ™πŸΌ

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