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The Great Gesture

by Thomas McConkie

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Life is full of second chances. The Dharma is all about second chances. Just now, if you didn’t meet the last moment with full presence and full awareness, life will offer you the next moment to get it right. It’s as if Reality itself is not content until you fully receive the “Great Gesture”, right now. Always right now.

Second ChancesDharmaPresenceAwarenessRealityImpermanenceNonconceptualSelfCreativitySensory AwarenessNaked AwarenessNew SelfCreative ProjectsNonconceptual Experiences

Transcript

Notice this moment.

Notice the fullness of sensory experience in this moment.

Allow awareness to illuminate the field of physical sensation.

Feel the tingling,

Buzzing transparency throughout the field of physical sensation.

Let go of any names you have for anything.

Let go of any stories for the moment about what experience means.

As if you were just born,

You've just given birth to a new self.

A self so new,

You know nothing of a body.

Body is just a concept.

You know nothing of past,

Of future.

You don't even know of a present.

Present is just another mental label we put on this unbroken stream of sensory experience flowing through awareness.

Notice where sensory experience lights up,

Tingles,

Vibrates,

Buzzes.

Every moment rising,

Every moment passing.

Nothing stays,

Nothing remains the same.

As soon as the buzzing,

The tingling rises,

It's already passing.

And in this moment,

And in this moment,

Sensory experience fluctuates.

It changes,

It's impermanent.

In attending to the change of things,

You also come into contact with the changeless.

Naked awareness.

Luminous presence.

This space,

A wide open space through which experience passes.

Whoever you thought you were a moment ago is already gone.

And now a new arising.

The great gesture presents itself as the fullness of reality in this moment.

And you are none other than this fullness.

You are none other than this great gesture.

It all just keeps flowing like a river.

The creative movement of the source bringing entire worlds into being.

Gathering them back up.

Notice what was here just one moment ago leaves no trace.

Is already gone.

Already gone,

Already making room for a new arising.

Notice you don't manage the change,

You don't make the change happen,

It all just happens.

It's all just happening.

And you,

This timeless,

Spaceless awareness,

Are just totally present to it all.

Watching it all take shape,

Becoming,

Unbecoming,

Drawn back up,

Back into the void,

From nothing to nothing.

And in this moment too,

The great gesture,

A new gesture,

A new birth.

Meet your Teacher

Thomas McConkieBoston, MA, USA

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