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.