Guided Nondual Meditation by Michael W. Taft
Streamed reside on Dec 30, 2021
Okay. So let’s start our meditation. Now as ordinary what I’d such as you to do is take your
meditation posture and tonight I’ll simply say, as an alternative of going into all the small print, I’ll simply say; sit up good and straight in a manner that feels actually comfy and let the remainder of your entire physique calm down. Okay. Simply sit up good and straight when you can. Don’t lean your again on the again of a chair however simply sit up permitting your again to carry itself up in a manner that feels very nice and permit the entire remainder of your complete physique to easily calm down.
We’re going to do some prolonged rest sort stuff tonight totally different than ordinary, a bit bit totally different anyway. And as an alternative of claiming, “what I would really like you to do–if you wish to–it’s okay to do that rest half mendacity in your again,” it’s greatest when you do this together with your knees elevated or a pillow underneath your knees in order that your decrease again is flat on the ground. Nevertheless you do it, you may also do it in shavasana, you understand corpse pose from yoga or no matter. However we wish to actually kick off this ultimate meditation of the 12 months. We wish individuals to get very, very, very relaxed. And keep in mind the opposite facet of this, apart from the relief, is staying actual alert. So regardless that you’re getting actual relaxed I don’t need you to get foggy or sleepy. So when you get foggy or sleepy, open your eyes and even meditate standing up as a result of it’s crucial that you just don’t go right into a dream or get drowsy. Irrespective of how relaxed we get we wish to keep an actual alert.
Okay. Now that you’re in no matter posture you’re going to take, let’s set our intention and likewise join in with our useful resource. However tonight we’re going to combine connecting with the useful resource to the relief we’re doing. Okay, so we’re going to try this half collectively. So let’s simply begin with the intention the place you keep in mind why you’re meditating, what’s the purpose, why are you doing this in any respect. You would possibly wish to say, “hey, I wish to join with my very own innermost knowledge and compassion and assist to make the world a kinder place,” one thing like that. Who is aware of, however that is perhaps certainly one of your motivations a few of your intention on your meditation. So I’ll simply be silent for a second whilst you join in together with your motivation for meditating, no matter that’s.
Okay. Good. Now what we’re gonna do is; I would like you to convey up a visualization, like we do fairly often in right here, and that is a part of our useful resource constructing, we visualize issues which are highly effective, useful, transformative issues that assist us in essence get into the suitable headspace to do the meditation. Tonight what I’d such as you to visualise–like we do visualize generally–is an attractive solar, proper? Just like the solar within the sky. And I would like you to visualise this solar in entrance of you, and it’s very heat in a pleasing manner, not too sizzling very, very nice and likewise extraordinarily lovely, the colour gold of the sunshine is sort of a ghee candle, when you’ve ever seen the flame of a ghee lamp, not a candle, it’s a ghee lamp, it burns butter, proper? And clarified butter, which is ghee, the colour of that flame is that this very, very beautiful golden hue. And so this solar in entrance of us, this three-dimensional spherical good solar has this very, very lovely tender golden hue. Okay, so image that now in entrance of you very, very clearly.
And as ordinary this solar represents our personal deepest Buddha nature, the truth that we’re all already enlightened bodhisattvas and so we’re going to tackle a few of the properties however we’re going to essentially dwell on specific properties. So we’re going to do that in a special order than regular, okay? So I would like you to first see a ray of sunshine, an attractive ray of sunshine coming from this golden solar and hitting you within the decrease stomach, proper? This hara area of your decrease stomach, the decrease dantian. It’s like an power spot you possibly can really feel. It’s like a pair inches beneath your navel and it’s a pair inches inside. It’s very easy to note when you get the sense of–there’s a spot in there that simply seems like a nexus or one thing. And so the power coming from the solar this lovely golden power is pouring into the decrease stomach and it’s filling you with a way of liveliness, a way of awakeness, a way of play and spontaneity, however primarily simply well being, and energy, and vigor, proper? It’s actually full of life, that is the liveliness spot and so that you’re feeling that power pouring into your physique, pouring into your physique making you’re feeling energized, awake, wholesome, genki, proper? Prepared for something, bushy-tailed, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed is what this spot does. Okay, so really feel that now, take that in and actually discover that on the in-breath that power will get even stronger and on the out-breath it sort of suffuses by your physique.
Good. Now whereas that continues to occur, that beam of that ray of sunshine from the solar retains pouring into your decrease stomach, one other beam comes into your brow and you are feeling this ray of sunshine bringing knowledge, and readability, and confidence, proper? It’s bringing knowledge, and readability, and confidence and you are feeling this very strongly, very deeply. It’s fairly clear. It’s fairly clear, you possibly can see that tremendously clearly, and you are feeling the knowledge, you’re feeling the arrogance. And once more the entire subject of the thoughts brightens, and clarifies, proper? So your deepest, wisest, most clever thoughts comes ahead beaming from the solar, the solar of our personal already current enlightened knowledge. And once more we’re feeling that are available in on the in-breath after which suffuse by the entire physique the entire being on the out-breath.
Good. Now that is the half we’re going to essentially deal with tonight; a 3rd ray of sunshine comes, the opposite two are nonetheless going, however a 3rd ray of sunshine comes into your coronary heart and it touches you in probably the most delicate, non-public, deepest a part of your coronary heart, proper? The guts of hearts as we generally say, proper? In your coronary heart of hearts. And you actually really feel that ray of sunshine from the solar touching you deeply. It’s not hitting the entrance of your chest in an armored manner and also you’re sort of guarding towards it, no, you’re vast, vast, vast open and the ray of sunshine comes into your chest and begins to fill your coronary heart with kindness, and caring, and compassion, and love and you are feeling very deeply that this solar of enlightened knowledge in entrance of you is beaming a sort of full unconditional acceptance to you, proper? It loves you. It desires the perfect for you. It sees your highest qualities, your greatest qualities, your highest aspirations. It sees solely the perfect in you, solely the great in you. And it’s actually the sunshine from this ray–it’s actually highlighting all the perfect issues inside you. And you actually really feel that love and that acceptance and it’s permitting you to sort of glow with a sense of being liked, and being cared for, and being accepted, and being mothered.
On the in-breath you’re feeling your self taking extra of that in. That is like good mothering, proper? It’s not like, no matter–regardless of how good our human mom has been, they may all the time have their flaws. However that is good mothering. That is Buddha mothering the whole lot good, the whole lot unconditional, the whole lot nearly kindness, nearly caring, nearly safety, nearly wanting the perfect for you and seeing who you actually are, seeing what you really want and simply filling you up with that sense of being seen, and cared for, and liked and on every out-breath that simply suffuses your entire being, not solely your entire physique however your entire thoughts, and your entire being, proper? You actually really feel that sense of being tremendously cared for, tremendously seen, completely understood. So really feel that now.
Okay. Good. Now persevering with to permit these three beams of sunshine to return into your physique, into your thoughts, into your being. Let’s start doing our shamatha with an object. We’re going to be meditating on rest so we’re not–often we meditate on respiration whereas permitting the physique to calm down–tonight we’re going to meditate on the relief itself and the respiration is a part of it however our major focus is the relief.
Okay, so what I would like you to note right here is that the three beams now converge into one beam, only a beam from the solar of enlightened knowledge that’s nonetheless shining in entrance of you. And this beam of gold and yellow gentle into the center and that accommodates all of the knowledge stuff from the thoughts and all of the therapeutic power stuff from the stomach, however it’s primarily the love, and the kindness, and the caring within the coronary heart. And so it’s one massive beam into the center. Okay and this beam now’s–as a result of it feels so good to really feel so cared for, you can begin to calm down.
And so I would like you to permit this radiant gentle that’s glowing in your coronary heart now to start to fill your face and head. So the muscle tissues of the brow calm down, and the eyes calm down, and really feel them suffusing with this power of being cared for, power of kindness, power of affection, power of being understood. Your cheeks, your lips, your chin, your tongue, your scalp, the entire head–even on the within–your entire mind, your entire nasal passages, the whole lot within the head is suffusing with this golden yellow gentle of being liked, and being cared for and it’s similar to inflicting the whole lot within the head to calm down, and to let go, and to really feel ease, and peace.
And I would like you to not deal with the issues that aren’t letting go, deal with the issues which are letting go, issues that do really feel good, the issues that really feel nice, that really feel relaxed. And the stress simply drains away extra, and extra, and extra, and extra, and extra as you discover clearly that areas of the face and head are feeling extra light, extra relaxed, extra open, extra comfy, and likewise extra awake. And on the in-breath you’re feeling extra of that golden yellow gentle filling the top and inflicting peace, and ease, and openness, and acceptance, and kindness, and like to fill the whole face and head. After which on the on the out-breath, you’re feeling that rising stronger, proper? On the out-breath the relief, the reduction, the openness, the kindness, the love grows even stronger. So let’s simply do this with the top now for a second or two.
Good. Now let’s think about this gentle coming from the solar in entrance of us, the solar of enlightened knowledge beaming into our hearts. And now it’s radiating up and never solely filling the top however it’s filling the neck, and the throat, and the shoulders, that entire collar area in entrance and in again, and even all the way in which inside. And all the stress there simply melts like wax melting in a candle, and all of it simply drains away, it drains out. And as an alternative, the neck, and throat, and the shoulders fill with this scrumptious glowing gentle of kindness, and caring, and love, and being accepted, and being understood, and being fully seen. And so all the stress within the throat, all the stress within the neck, all the stress within the shoulders simply relaxes and drains away. And on the in-breath you’re feeling you possibly can even visualize increasingly more of this gold and yellow gentle filling the neck, filling the throat, filling the shoulders all the way in which inside. And the whole lot stress-free increasingly more deeply. After which on the out-breath, it lets go much more fully.
With every out-breath it relaxes extra completely, it relaxes extra absolutely, it relaxes extra fully in order that not solely your face and head however now your throat and neck and shoulder area is glowing and releasing within the gentle of this great kindness, love, caring and nurturing.
Good. Now on the subsequent in-breath the sunshine begins to fill the arms, and arms, and fingers. They’re stuffed, they turn out to be yellow radiant daylight. They’re glowing with a radiant peace. All the stress drains away. They turn out to be limp like moist noodles they usually fill with golden gentle and all the stress drains away they usually start to really feel rest. All of the knots in your arms, all of the tightness within the wrists and the arms, all that simply drains away. And as an alternative, your arms and arms and fingers really feel that very touching presence of kindness, of caring, of being seen in a optimistic gentle, being nurtured, being cared for. You actually really feel that mothering power simply loving up your face, your head, your neck and throat, your shoulders, your arms and your arms. And on the in-breath, much more gentle is available in, and you are feeling extra rest spreading by the physique, and on the out-breath it will get even stronger in a really nice manner.
This solar of our personal enlightened knowledge is simply beaming this power into the center after which the power suffusing the physique, this power of affection, this power of kindness, this power of rest, and launch, and letting go. Identical to you’re a child within the arms of this bodhisattva mommy, this Buddha mommy, who’s holding you and caring for you as deeply and fully and completely because it’s attainable to be cared for. So simply let go into that now and see the way it’s attainable to only merely drop now right into a a lot deeper place, a a lot deeper rest, a extra whole letting go, layers of letting go, deeper, proper? Once you simply open up.
And the beam from that radiant solar of knowledge and love comes extra fully into your coronary heart. After which on the subsequent in-breath you discover your entire chest area, your entire higher again, even your stomach, and your decrease again area, the entire trunk and torso is suffused with this radiant gentle, this golden gentle of affection and kindness, and all the stress drains away. And you are feeling, on the out-breath, this sort of great letting go of rigidity within the physique. You’re feeling an incredible sense of affection filling your coronary heart. It’s form love, it’s actually candy, it’s actually caring, it actually sees you, it actually understands you, it actually desires solely the perfect for you, and it’s nurturing each little neatest thing about you in each attainable manner and the whole lot else simply drains away. And you are feeling the entire trunk of your physique simply releasing and opening, and releasing and opening, and releasing and opening, experiencing a sort of mom Buddha love that you just’ve by no means skilled in your complete life earlier than, it’s deeper, and purer, and extra whole, and it permits your entire torso, your arms and arms, your neck, your higher physique, the entire higher physique and the top to only launch and open, and be crammed with this radiant gentle of affection and kindness, to be crammed with this golden glow of well being and pleasure and compassion.
And once more it’s so candy, and so actual, and deep, and type, and open that it permits you to simply drop much more deeply now, to only drop now into like a really, very open place the place you’re simply nearly like merely a ray, a physique of golden gentle and increasingly more of this golden daylight fills your entire pelvic area, and your legs, and your ft, and your toes. And you are feeling all rigidity, all tightness, all discomfort draining out of your legs and ft and toes. And on the in-breath much more daylight of golden love comes into your legs and ft and toes and on the out-breath they turn out to be increasingly more suffused with this kindness, infused with love, infused with caring, infused with a way the physique is accepted precisely as it’s. All the physique is accepted precisely as it’s. All the emotional physique is accepted precisely as it’s. All the thoughts is accepted and liked precisely as it’s. The entire, your entire being is liked and accepted and cared for and even cherished, completely cherished precisely as it’s.
And the impression of feeling a lot caring, and a lot connectedness, and a lot understanding and a lot kindness simply adjustments your complete being, your entire physique, your thoughts, your feelings, the whole lot right into a physique of radiant golden gentle. And on the in-breath extra golden gentle fills the physique after which the out-breath it grows even stronger and you are feeling any final vestiges of rigidity simply draining out of the physique and the entire physique feels prefer it’s made of sunshine. It feels good. It feels energized. It feels relaxed. It seems like the whole lot is simply good within the physique, simply that fantastic feeling of the whole lot being good, and liked, cared for, form.
And as you replenish your fuel tank of affection and kindness and caring, you start to note that your physique of radiant golden gentle is beginning to glow even brighter, beginning to glow even brighter, and on the in-breath it takes in additional gentle, after which on the out-breath it glows brighter, after which on the in-breath it takes in much more gentle from the solar of radiant knowledge in entrance of you, after which within the out breath it glows even brighter. And now, on the subsequent in-breath, the solar of the radiant knowledge in entrance of us really enters us, it is available in and fills our entire physique in order that our radiant physique of golden gentle and this radiant solar of golden gentle are only one golden gentle. So let’s simply breathe with that now for some time collectively, letting this radiant gentle fill our physique after which really radiate out farther from us. Now feeling that love, basking in that kindness, steeping within the caring and loving.
Okay. Good. Now what I would like you to do is discover that this radiant physique of golden gentle centered within the coronary heart is simply effortlessly glowing and spreading this sense of Buddha mom love, kindness, caring, connection out in all instructions. Okay, and I would like you to start to radiate this love and kindness in direction of–we’re going to start with the individuals proper round us, the individuals in your life closest to you, the people who find themselves your family members, your loved ones, the animals who’re your family members and household, people who find themselves in your inside circle. And I would like you to only image this radiant golden sweetness and kindness beaming out from you in all instructions and individually see every particular person and/or animal or no matter sort of being they’re, see them touched by this golden gentle of Buddha love, mom Buddha love, kindness and caring and it makes them tremendously pleased. See their faces pleased or their tails wagging or no matter. See them as radiant, joyous, wholesome, pleased, crammed with peace and pleasure.
Okay, so this radiant love of the Buddha coronary heart inside you, the mom Buddha kindness love coronary heart inside you–see it affecting all of the individuals round you and simply hold feeling it in your self. Don’t let this get fraught or troublesome in any manner, simply see it as simply pure you, simply need the perfect for them. You simply need them to be pleased and wholesome. You simply wish to assist them to thrive. Something that makes them joyous, that’s wholesome and pleased, makes you joyous. After which the enjoyment of that radiant love and kindness simply grows and grows, so see all of the family members round you individually turning into completely impacted, completely liked by this radiant gentle now. Now this radiant scrumptious golden gentle of affection and kindness and caring is so overjoyed at our family members additionally feeling pleasure, feeling love, feeling caring and seeing them pleased, seeing/enthusiastic about them doing nicely, that we glow even brighter much more golden much more loving much more fully caring and type, wanting what’s greatest for everybody, wanting what’s greatest for every being on the earth, seeing them doing their greatest and rejoicing in that. And really taking motion to maintain them, to assist them to do even higher.
In order that our complete physique now shouldn’t be physique formed. It’s like a sphere or a globe of yellow gentle centered on the center, tremendously giant and now we’re the solar of yellow gentle, proper? We’re the solar of this mom Buddha love. And let the solar radiate out now to your entire neighborhood, everybody in your speedy neighborhood, all of the animals, all of the beings in your neighborhood. Simply image even all of the vegetation, even all of the bugs, the whole lot, even the water, and the air, the whole lot turns into more healthy, happier. The radiant kindness of your mom Buddha love fills them with pleasure, fills them with a way of being seen, fills them with a way of kindness and caring, fills them with a way that they’re appreciated for being simply precisely who and what they’re. Simply permit this gentle of your coronary heart, this gentle of the solar, this golden gentle of caring and kindness simply radiate much more brightly, much more powerfully, much more fantastically. And permit it to only soften your thoughts, permit it to only soften any confusion, any battle within the thoughts.
And your entire thoughts simply additionally turns to radiant gentle so that each one that’s filling the thoughts is photographs of beings turning into pleased and wholesome crammed with peace and love and simply stuffed as much as the brim with this sense of nurturing and kindness and caring.
Okay. Good, and now we’re going to go actually vast. I would like you to note that this sense of affection and kindness and pleasure and feeling cared for that you just’re bathing in and likewise radiating out now spreads to embody the entire world. So each human on the earth, each animal on the earth, each being on the earth, even vegetation and timber, even the air and water, even the earth, even the sky, permit this radiant love, this kindness, this caring, the sense of actually seeing how tremendously indescribably useful every being is, how indescribably treasured every being is and radiating out the sense of caring for them, loving them, actually seeing them for who they are surely and permitting the entire world to only bask on this radiant kindness of Buddha love. And keep in mind you’re a being on the earth too so that you’re persevering with to only open increasingly more deeply, to be suffused with this love, and your thoughts is simply melted, it’s simply completely melted into radiant glowing yellow gentle of compassion and kindness and caring.
Good. And now let this loving kindness and caring and exquisite golden gentle unfold out to fill the whole universe and all universes in all places, bringing kindness caring love compassion to all beings in all places.
Good. Now discover that within the gentle of this mom Buddha love there’s no boundary wherever, proper? This radiant gentle of mom Buddha love pervades all area. Nothing can block it. It radiates in all places. After which additionally discover that this radiant golden gentle of Buddha love, Buddha compassion, Buddha caring has been right here since beginningless time and shall be right here perpetually. It didn’t begin wherever. It’s going to by no means finish. It’s merely eternally current and current in all places.
Good. After which discover that this gentle of Buddha kindness is current in all places and subsequently doesn’t actually have a middle, regardless that it felt prefer it’s radiating from our coronary heart, it’s really situated in all places and radiating by the whole universe and so it doesn’t actually actually have a heart, or let’s imagine in all places together with our coronary heart is the middle.
Good. And spot that your thoughts is melted and opened into golden gentle. All ideas, all imaginings, all feelings, all sense of persona, even the sense of doing something is simply dissolved into golden gentle. And this golden gentle may be very tender, very light and see that this golden gentle is current in all places and on the similar time a single level of it’s glowing extremely brightly within the heart of your being, a single level of sunshine glowing in an enormous area of consciousness. This gentle is pristine, this gentle is ideal, this gentle is gorgeous, it’s form, it’s loving, it’s caring, it’s sensible, it’s clear, it’s crammed with life, it’s crammed with power, it’s crammed with playfulness and spontaneity.
Simply be with that gentle now, be that gentle now. And now noticing that even that gentle itself is in some methods empty and but there. Identical to ideas and emotions are empty however there. Persona, the physique, it’s empty however there. Time and area, the world round you, individuals, beings empty however there. There’s an actual sense of connectedness with the whole lot. No boundary between ourselves and anything, an actual sense of the the Aristocracy and dignity of each being, nearly indescribable preciousness of each being and even of the world itself, of water, air, sky, of mountains and timber, of the land. Actually really feel that now and on the similar time really feel its dreamlike high quality, its great ephemerality as we convey this ultimate meditation of the 12 months to a detailed.
Let’s simply spend a second dedicating ourselves to appreciating our life, appreciating all the opposite beings in our life, appreciating the world, the very fact that there’s a world to be in. Appreciating all of the beings, appreciating all that we’ve and actually feeling that now. After which we will convey the meditation to a detailed very gently, nonetheless feeling relaxed, nonetheless feeling open, feeling suffused with love and kindness and caring and permitting your physique to maneuver and stretch and really feel good. The physique likes to maneuver. Permit the physique to maneuver. Possibly have a drink of water.
Dharma Discuss
And so what I’d love to do tonight is as an alternative of—the meditation was its personal educating—as an alternative of simply repeating the whole lot I stated within the meditation or having you ask questions, as an alternative what I’d love to do tonight is have everybody who’s nonetheless with us, all 32 of you on this expertise tonight I’d such as you within the chat window to bless everybody, simply discuss your love and your kindness and caring for everybody on the earth. So every particular person as a result of if we may do it and go round one by one in a room we might say please you understand converse of your love and your pleasure and your blessing for the world however as an alternative I’d similar to you to sort it within the chat window every certainly one of you. After which we’ll all simply learn these collectively. Okay so please go forward. And it doesn’t should be lengthy. It simply needs to be heartfelt. This isn’t about being articulate or being poetic it’s merely about talking from the center, talking fact from the center and when you’re watching this video doing this guided meditation later, even years later please within the remark window make a remark about kindness and caring for different beings, all the opposite beings within the meditation, all the opposite beings on the earth, the world itself. Simply share with us some heartfelt blessing now.
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