Close the eyes.
Start to observe your breathing.
Observe each in-breath.
Observe each out-breath.
Observe stillness and silence growing in the mind.
Connect to stillness,
To silence,
More and more,
Through observing the breath,
Observing how the breath enters,
Leaves.
Observe the mind focusing on the breathing.
Allow the mind to come into stillness as it focuses more and more on the breathing.
Enjoy the sensation of stillness.
Crying in the mind as it concentrates,
Focuses,
Not on the distractions that the mind creates,
But on the stillness that it generates through focusing on the breath.
The thoughts lose their importance as you realise that they're simply distractions.
The true bliss,
True stillness,
True happiness,
True peace comes from simply observing the breathing.
You breathe in,
The ribcage expands,
You breathe out,
The ribcage contracts.
You keep observing the breathing.
You keep allowing stillness to grow in the mind.
You connect more and more to the breath.
Breathe in,
The ribcage expands.
Breathe out,
The ribcage contracts.
You keep allowing the mind to focus on the breath,
On the movement of the breath,
Into,
Out of the lungs.
Breathe in,
Breathe out.
Feel the thoughts drift away,
The stillness within emerging as you observe the breathing.
Breathe in,
The ribcage expands.
Breathe out,
The ribcage contracts.
Continue to feel stillness within as you focus on the breath.
And then as you do,
Just in your mind's eye,
You observe how your life has been up until now.
How you've been searching,
Looking for something in the outside world to bring you permanent,
Constant happiness.
How you've found things that have brought you happiness.
The happiness has lasted for a while,
But the mind continues to search.
Sometimes the mind looks for happiness in the outside world and the object you look for you never find.
This simply leads to distress.
Sometimes you look,
You find it and the object of what you thought would bring you happiness brings you sadness.
And you realise that the reason that you haven't found happiness in the outside world is that you're far from home.
You need to find your way back home to yourself to find this true happiness.
And you decide now,
That from now on,
Every time the mind tricks you into convincing that happiness lies in the outside world,
Makes you run,
Chase.
You yourself will decide instead of running and chasing.
Things that can sometimes bring you happiness,
Sometimes turn around and turn the happiness into sadness.
And sometimes just keep leaving you running,
Chasing,
Never finding the happiness in a constant state,
Trying to achieve a goal or running after something unattainable.
Something that only brings temporary happiness.
Instead of allowing the mind to trick you and look for these things,
You'll always try and find your way home.
Your true self to the seat of true happiness that lies deep within.
And you see your true home now.
There's pure bliss,
Pure white light that emanates from the centre of your heart.
This is your true home.
This is where happiness resides.
Every time you see a glimpse of happiness in the outside world,
You're simply touching the same source of happiness that created you,
That created the universe.
The source of happiness that when it created you,
Left a part of itself inside you.
The source of true happiness you can sometimes find by searching on the outside,
But its essence is always inside you.
It created you when it created the universe.
You don't need to look or search or constantly keep running and searching in the outside world.
Just find your way home,
Back to yourself.
This is where you will find true,
Eternal,
Everlasting happiness.
Deep within yourself,
Deep within your heart,
You see the white light of yourself that represents true happiness.
You see it deep inside yourself.
You see your heart just as pure white light.
You see that this is your true home.
This is who you are,
This point of peace within.
You see that the source of all life,
All happiness,
All love in the entire universe resides within you.
It created you.
When it created you,
It left a part of itself within you.
You don't need to look or search anymore.
You're back within your true self.
You're inside your true self.
You've found your way home.
Home is inside you.
Looking,
Searching just takes you away from the contentment and the bliss that lies within you,
That is your original,
True state.
You keep looking at the white light within.
You become aware of what has taken you away from your true source of light and love.
You realize that your entire life you've been wearing a mask.
You've been playing a role,
A role of a father,
A mother,
A son,
A daughter,
A role of a certain type of work,
A certain vocation,
Many roles you play and you forget that life is a game.
You start to take the mask seriously.
You start to forget the being behind the mask,
The point of light and stillness behind the mask.
You get caught up in the role,
Forget who you are,
Think that you're the player,
The actor and you forget that life is simply a play,
A game,
A dream.
You start to take life too seriously.
The mask starts to become real and as you play the game,
As you get caught up in the role,
You forget that the source of true love is deep inside yourself.
The player starts looking to the outside world for its love,
Its happiness.
Forgetting your true home behind the mask inside yourself,
You started to look and search.
Searching for the truth in your role instead of looking behind the mask and seeing that you're just a player,
Remembering that we're all just players in the game of Leela,
The game of life,
The divine play.
None of us are the masks,
We're all the players behind the masks,
We're all points of divine light that were created by the source of love and light.
The source who in the ancient world was called Brahman,
Ishwara.
The source of divine light,
Divine love that exists within all of us.
We just need to take off our masks,
Remember who we truly are and find our way home to the love and peace that exists within our hearts.
Home is not to be found in the outside world,
The outside world is simply a play,
A game.
Divine love exists within all of us,
We just need to take off the mask,
Remember who we truly are.
Beings created by the divine order,
The divine principle of the universe.
We just need to see the light within,
The divinity within.
Remember that we're essentially love,
Unconditional love.
That the spark of light and love that created the universe has left a spark of light and love within each and every one of us.
Our home is here,
In the spark,
In the light,
In the love.
You become attached to the outside world when you wear your mask,
When you play your role.
But true happiness,
Eternal permanent happiness lies beyond the role,
Beyond the mask,
At the point of origin.
Your true home,
Your true self.
And you exist deep within,
You're the heart and the light deep within yourself.
Just for a moment now you see all of the players in the world's game,
The game of Leela,
Taking off their masks.
You see all the players for who they truly are,
Back home within the light of the self.
You see the light of the self pointing back to the source.
The source of all of us is unlimited,
Unconditional,
True love,
True light,
True peace,
True bliss.
This is our true home and the meaning of our lives is simply to return back to that source,
To return back to our true home,
A place of love and light that exists within all of us.
You feel this love and light within.
You feel and see how this light and love represents unlimited love.
This is what created the universe,
A desire for unlimited love to exist.
To see the world how it truly is,
We need to take off our masks,
See that we're simply playing roles.
These roles are part of a game,
A play,
But our reality lies beyond this.
Our true home lies deep within the heart,
Deep inside.
You see yourself as nothing but light,
Merging back the true light,
True love that created us all.
You keep seeing golden light within.
This is your true home.
You know now that the journey,
The route you need to take to come back to yourself,
To your true home.
You take off your mask one last time,
Remembering that you're simply the player.
You're here to play out your role,
But your happiness doesn't come from being the player.
You can enjoy being the player,
But the happiness doesn't come from searching within the play.
It comes from deep within.
It comes from the white light deep inside yourself.
You keep seeing the white light deep within.
You found your way home to your original true self,
To the source of light and love that exists within yourself.
You rub both palms together.
You generate warmth in the palms.
You keep the feeling of love and light within,
The awareness of your connection to the source,
To the white light within.
As you rub both palms together,
You take them over the eyes,
Bringing warmth back into the eyes,
Remembering that the source of all love,
All life,
Lies deep within yourself.
With this realization,
With taking off the mask,
You realize that you're looking for your way home to yourself.
You slowly move the hands away from the eyes.
You slowly open your eyes,
Getting them used to the light once more.
