Natural Awareness

Explore the art of natural meditation, and accessing the power of the present moment. This guided meditation was offered at the annual Winter Retreat at Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in New Hampshire.

Transcript

Settle onto your seat and get comfortable.

Starting with the body,

Arriving in the body.

Let your mind settle down into your physical form.

Feel the sensation of the seat beneath you or your cushion.

Focus your shoulders and back.

Feeling the muscles in your face relax.

And allow the breath to be natural,

Arriving with your breath.

Let breath breathe you.

Allow breath.

And arrive with the mind.

Let go of following after thoughts about the past.

And let go of the mind that anticipates the future.

It reaches into the future planning,

Worrying,

Anticipating.

Instead settle into this very present moment,

Relaxed,

Aware,

At ease with whatever arises in the field of your awareness.

Allow this very present moment of awareness to be itself.

Let go of the impulse to want to do something,

Meditate on something.

Let go of the need to tweak or improve this moment of awareness.

But just let the act of aware,

Being aware,

Be enough.

Awareness being aware,

Spontaneously and freely,

Effortlessly.

When the mind searches for an object,

Something to get involved in,

Some thought to follow after,

Or some project,

Or when the mind even searches for knowledge,

Something to know.

Just relax that energy of needing to do anything whatsoever and enter into a place of pure being,

Just being,

Spontaneous being,

Natural being.

This is awareness aware of itself.

Tree of plans and goals and needs.

This is awareness aware of itself.

This isness,

This suchness is enough.

Self-luminous,

Self-aware.

Really spacious.

Primordial wisdom awareness.

This is it.

See if you can let go into that place.

That place is primordially present.

Return to that home.

True ERH.

And if the mind becomes uncertain,

Am I seeing it?

Am I resting in it?

Am I practicing it?

And let your practice be releasing effort and coming back to that place of effortless being.

This is the natural great perfection.

The essence of mind.

The nature of mind.

Spontaneous non meditation.

Reviews

Thank you very much for your supportive prompting and guidance in this practice!

Beautiful pacing and voice.

Thank you! 😊🙏🏻

this was fantastic. i’m always looking for guided meditations on here that don’t have music and allow more room for silence than guidance. this was perfect. adding this into my bookmarked rotation!

A very pure meditation. Normally, I don't like bell sounds at the beginning and end of meditations but your bell sounds so wholesome. I brings me joy to hear it.

Expertly and calmly guided exercise in practicing to relax into, and just be in the present moment. Thank you 🌈 ♥ 🙏 🕊️

Thank you. So simple and peaceful! X

A hands off awareness meditation. Allows you to become at ease with just being and watching everything spontaneously arise.

Very effective is supporting letting go of all that I may hold onto during meditation. The breath, the thoughts, the feelings,the bodily sensations. Deeply touching.

Lovely meditation to start the week!

Having trouble with technology.

Guiding me to just be.

Liked the voice and pace but there was a bit of talking in the background near the end but still liked it.

Gratitude for wisdom and participation. Blessings while reading articles in Lion's Roar.

Wonderful guided meditation - like a mini retreat to Wonderwell - thank you Willa

Thank you, Lama Willa.

Beautifully paced. Very grounded. Thanks.

Very nice meditation in accepting the "now!" Thank you!

Wow! I asked the universe to lead me to a meditation this morning and it too me straight to this! Wonderful! Soothing voice, good content, nice pauses. If there were background noises, they were indistinguishable from those in my own environment.

Awesome...thank you! ❤