Guided Nondual Meditation by Michael Taft
Streamed on March 3, 2022
So the very first thing I would like you to do is simply keep in mind your intention. Why are you meditating? What are you doing right here? And let’s additionally simply set an intention for world peace, for peace on Earth and good will in direction of all beings. Not simply males, not simply even people, all beings, have peace on Earth; good will in direction of everybody. After which what I’d such as you to do is simply spend, let’s sink in proper right here to just a bit little bit of breath meditation, simply to type of get us going. So I would like you to, when you’ve taken your meditation posture, I would like you to breathe usually and naturally and start to simply observe the physique sensations of the in-breath after which observe the physique sensations of the out-breath. And if you wish to, you’ll be able to even use, like, a steady labeling that will help you stick with it. Like ‘inhaling, inhaling, inhaling’, ‘respiration out, respiration out, respiration out’. Or no matter, so that you’re simply naturally respiration and you might be staying with the breath. So let’s get going there and we’ll do this for a short while after which we’ll unpack the remainder of the guided meditation collectively.
Okay? Excellent. Now transferring alongside right here, what I would like you to do is proceed in the identical method on the in-breath, ‘inhaling, inhaling, inhaling’. You are feeling the breath sensation within the physique. You monitor all of it the way in which to the underside of the in-breath. However then on the out-breath you’re simply dissolving out into area. You’re not monitoring something, you’re simply permitting the thoughts to simply dissolve. All of the ideas to dissolve, all of the feelings to dissolve, all of the sense of time and area to dissolve, all of the sense of being anyone in any respect to dissolve into huge, awake area. So, very regular in-breath meditation, simply monitoring that in-breath however on the out-breath we simply – it’s virtually like we’re blowing. You’re not actually blowing, however within the exhale it’s virtually such as you’re exhaling the thoughts out into area and simply permitting it to grow to be huge area on every out-breath, so let’s do this now.
Okay, good. Now let go of monitoring the in-breath and simply enable your self to relaxation as huge, spacious awakeness now, proper? We’re not making huge, spacious awakeness/huge, spacious consciousness be huge or be spacious or be awake or conscious; it already is all that. We’re simply not interrupting. We’re simply sitting again and permitting our nature as huge, spacious consciousness to acknowledge itself. So simply resting as huge, spacious consciousness, for those who grow to be concerned in pondering, simply drop that and allow them to dissolve. Don’t do something to them, simply let go. If you happen to discover your self getting concerned in something simply loosen up, let go. Let consciousness simply come again to its pure spaciousness, its pure awakeness, its already present knowledge and readability.
Once more if you end up selecting up ideas, simply loosen up and drop them. You’re not making an attempt to cease them or not making an attempt to push them away however neither are you partaking with them. So if you end up engaged, simply drop and are available again to being area. If you happen to’ve, identical factor with feelings, if you end up wrapped up in emotion, simply let go. Come again to being area, the area you already are. You don’t want to visualise something. If you end up visualizing throughout this half, simply loosen up. Come again to being area. There’s nothing to do. We’re simply coming again to our nature of area by merely enjoyable.
On this place there’s nothing to do, there’s nothing to vary, every part is good. Simply relaxation into, relaxation as, huge, spacious consciousness. Already awake, completely clear, completely full. Nothing to do and no doer.
Good, now we’re going to do some visualization. So, into this area of vacancy, into this area of simply empty awakeness, huge area; it’s simple to mission visualization as a result of there’s nothing in the way in which. And what we’re going to visualise tonight is, going to begin out with, we’re going to fake that this awake consciousness is centered on the prime of our head, or kind of in direction of the highest heart of your head. It’s after all not centered anyplace in any respect however for now I would like you to think about that there’s a type of a wonderful white mild with possibly a tinge of – very, very mild tinge of – purple shining, radiating within the prime, from the highest of the top, like a sphere of sunshine. And the sphere of sunshine is simply the middle of this whole acceptance, whole sense of loving presence. An actual deep, deep peace and full kindness and knowledge. So simply think about this whitish mild radiating like a wonderful white solar on the prime of the top. And it’s radiating out full unconditional love, full kindness, deep, deep, deep sense of caring and compassion. And simply maintain visualizing that for now.
Simply think about that awake consciousness, the huge, spacious consciousness is like centered on the prime of your head. Once more, it has no heart. However think about for now that there’s a heart there and it’s composed of a shining white mild that’s simply radiating out in all instructions. A superb, stunning white mild of affection and kindness and caring and compassion. Deep, deep, deep knowledge shining in all instructions.
Good. Now let’s simply enable that heart of awake consciousness to simply drop down into the middle of the top, okay? And now let’s image this as a golden yellow orb of radiating mild, radiating mild. Your physique, your bones, your muscle tissues; none of that’s in the way in which. The orb of radiating yellow mild is there and this mild is the sunshine of non secular knowledge. That is, if you need, you’ll be able to image all of the non secular academics of all time there. Or no matter non secular academics, particularly the good masters of the previous. They’re all positioned there, shining this mild of knowledge, of jñana, of vidya, proper? So you’ll be able to both image this yellow, glowing orb by itself or you’ll be able to embrace the presence of those tremendously highly effective non secular beings who’re wanting upon you with kindness and caring. Complete, whole acceptance of you simply the way in which you might be, and radiating, beaming knowledge. Aiming knowledge and readability and confidence into your being. So it’s each inside you but it surely’s additionally radiating into you and radiating out into the world. And it’s full of each being who you think about to be, like, an woke up non secular grasp; like a Buddha, like a bodhisattva. All of them taking a look at you with kindness and caring.
So you’ll have observed we’re doing the mandala visualization however as an alternative of putting the mandala round us horizontally in area we’re stacking the mandala up and down the central channel, the madhyanadi.
So typically we see these non secular or knowledge figures as judgmental however right here they’re completely accepting of you simply the way in which you might be. Completely in your aspect, completely cheering you on, so to talk. You recognize, supplying you with steerage that you simply require. Freely providing you all of the knowledge they’ve to provide. And serving to to awaken your spirit to make clear your thoughts, to… and you may really feel the boldness and you may really feel the competence pouring into the system and radiating out with this yellow mild throughout.
Good. Now let’s enable that fake heart of awake consciousness to drop down proper into the middle of your chest, even behind the bodily coronary heart. Deep, deep, deep in your chest on the stage of the guts. Proper within the heart, not like the guts. And I would like you to image inexperienced mild now, a inexperienced sphere of lovely, emerald inexperienced mild. A really life giving coloration. The colour that makes you’re feeling enthusiastic and impressed and full of pleasure. And that is the place of our family members. So along with this radiating inexperienced mild of affection and belonging, that feeling of friendliness and togetherness and love and caring, I would like you to image your dearest family members. Your loved ones, your mates, your animal companions; all of the beings who’re in your life whom you’re keen on and who love you. And film them there within the coronary heart, once more. Gazing at you. Gazing at one another with whole acceptance; acceptance, actual friendliness. Friendliness on this case is that need to simply join with others and be variety. And likewise you’re feeling mudita there, the sweetness, the sense that once they’re glad, you’re glad, once they smile, you smile. And I would like you to simply really feel that love pouring out from the awake consciousness heart within the coronary heart and pouring again in. Filling you with love, filling you with sweetness, filling you with friendliness. So it’s each radiating out and in addition radiating in on the identical time on this inexperienced mild on the stage of the guts.
Sustain the visualization and feeling the feelings. Don’t get misplaced in thought. Simply maintain feeling the friendliness, the sweetness, the love, the caring, the belonging, the acceptance; visualizing that radiating out and pouring again in constantly.
Good. Now once more let’s enable the obvious or imaginary heart of awake consciousness to drop down into the photo voltaic plexus area. This isn’t the stomach, the decrease dantian under the abdomen, that is above. You may actually really feel like a photo voltaic, the photo voltaic plexus power. I would like you to see this very vivid, very sharp, very fiery crimson mild there. Shiny crimson mild. Extremely important, extremely robust and in a method it’s sharp. You may even, although it’s this radiating crimson mild from a sphere, it has a pointiness or a sharpness. And that is the power of safety. That is the power preserving us and others secure. That is each us preserving others secure and others preserving us secure, and even non secular beings preserving us secure. So with this crimson, fiery, pointy, fierce, intense crimson mild; image any beings there that you simply consider as protectors. Protectors for you, protectors of the world. The world wants protectors actually unhealthy proper now. Think about the beings, they could even be the identical because the non secular beings, they could even be the identical because the love beings. They don’t need to be completely different. However the beings who’re fiercely defending the earth, fiercely defending you, fiercely defending different individuals, fiercely defending all of the beings of this earth and of this universe and who’re intensely conscious of the preciousness of every being and the dignity of every being and the the Aristocracy of every being and are devoted to preserving and defending them. So really feel that basically fiery, actually highly effective, actually stunning, variety, protecting power; the fierce, protecting power on this photo voltaic plexus space now.
Okay, excellent. And now from there let’s drop down once more. Drop down, drop down all the way in which to the perineum, proper? So to the very base of your torso. And right here I would like you to image deep blue, good deep blue, virtually indigo mild radiating out. Radiating out in all instructions from this heart of awake consciousness, all the way in which down within the perineum. Really feel it glowing. Really feel it shining. This tremendously stabilizing, grounding, deep blue mild. That is the world of assist. That is the power of useful resource and resilience and assist. That is the assist of all of the ancestors. That is the assist of the bodily world round us and the assist of the physique. Really feel this extremely structured, patterned, predictable and exquisite, soothing blue mild radiating out and in addition pouring again in, on the base of the physique. Really feel the assist, really feel the groundedness. Really feel the sanity and humility and stability. Really feel the gravity and the earth itself.
Okay? Good. Now, what I would like you to do is on the in-breath, I would like you to image the breath coming in by way of the highest of your head, by way of that white mild. Shifting into the middle of your head with the yellow mild, coming down the middle of your backbone into the guts with the inexperienced mild. Into the stomach with the crimson mild and into the perineum with the blue mild. After which on the out-breath it’s going the opposite method, in by way of the perineum, up the backbone, by way of every of the facilities; blue then crimson, then inexperienced then yellow, then white and out the highest of your head.
Okay? So it’s a humorous visualization. Power coming within the prime of the top, transferring by way of every of those facilities. Re-each of the facilities, persevering with to radiate and feeling that power. After which in by way of the underside of the backbone, developing, up, up, up by way of the backbone and out the highest of the top, okay? Proceed with that visualization now and actually really feel the power at every location. Don’t pause, don’t hit your breath however simply calmly really feel the heart beat of every of these spheres of power, because the breath goes up and out after which again in and down.
Persevering with on that in-breath, the air goes by way of the highest of the top all the way in which right down to the underside of the backbone after which now all the way in which right down to the middle of the earth. After which that out-breath comes from the middle of the earth, all the way in which again out by way of the highest of the top and out to the cosmos. So the in-breath really comes from the complete cosmos, down by way of the highest of the top, all the way in which right down to the middle of the earth. Really feel the middle of the earth. After which the out-breath from the middle of the earth, swooping up all the way in which again up into the cosmos.
Okay? Good. Now let go of that and simply enable the white mild and the yellow mild to return down into the inexperienced mild on the coronary heart and collect there. So that every one three are shining now way more brightly, way more intensely. And permit the blue mild and the crimson mild to return up and collect within the coronary heart, now shining way more intently. And all these lights collectively, after all, make white mild once more. So this was an excellent, stunning, tremendously loving, tremendously clever, caring, compassionate mild. Shining within the coronary heart; mild of consciousness, mild of knowledge, mild of compassion, mild of affection, mild of whole acceptance, mild of peace and kindness, shining within the coronary heart. Really feel that very clearly. Shining within the coronary heart, radiating out in all instructions and pouring again in from all instructions too. Let this radiant love contact all beings in every single place. Let this peace contact all beings in every single place. Let this kindness contact all beings in every single place. Let this knowledge contact all beings in every single place.
Good. Now let go of all of the visualization and simply come again to resting as open, empty, spacious, clear awakeness. Awakeness that has at all times been there, that at all times is there. Complete readability and kindness that at all times is behind each expertise. This huge, spacious consciousness; simply relaxation there. No photographs in any respect, no doing in any respect. If any doing comes up, simply let go, let go, let go. Merely relaxation because the huge, spacious consciousness you’ve at all times been.
Okay? Good. Very, excellent. All proper all people let’s finish the meditation there.
Dharma Discuss
And you’ll enable your self to maneuver and shake and wiggle and stretch. And simply enable your physique to do what it must do to really feel good. Permit your self a pleasant glass of water or some tea, or no matter fits you in the meanwhile. And simply discover how you’re feeling, how you’re feeling after doing this, we’ll name it a central channel visualization; the madhyanadi, the central channel visualization. We had been stacking the visualization that we usually do as a mandala. Once more, usually the mandala is round us in area, right here it was stacked up the central channel. It’s one other solution to do it and a really highly effective solution to do it.
I wish to remind you that, you understand, awake consciousness, consciousness itself has no heart. It’s not coming from anyplace. It already is in every single place. It’s non-local, it has no heart and it has no edge. It has no circumference, it has no boundary. So once we’re doing the visualization that it’s coming from the top, or that it’s within the heart of our head or that it’s on prime of the top or in our coronary heart, or no matter. I used to be fairly cautious to say a pair occasions at the least that it’s fake or that it’s an imaginary heart. However I simply wish to re-emphasize that – that we’re picturing it as having a middle but it surely doesn’t actually have any heart. Or to place it in one other method that’s equally true, lets say it’s centered in every single place and so in every single place is the middle. That’s why we will visualize like that and have or not it’s highly effective.
You discover earlier than we began we did a type of, we did awake consciousness or huge, spacious consciousness; vacancy meditation, proper? Simply dropping every part. Simply letting every part be. Simply letting awake consciousness, letting consciousness relaxation in itself. After which we did our entire visualization after which on the finish we got here again to simply permitting consciousness to relaxation in itself with no visualization in any respect. And in order that’s how we do this. We type of like, it’s virtually like metaphorically we’re simply erasing the blackboard, you understand? I don’t learn about you however I went to high school when there have been actual blackboards that wrote with an precise chalk and you understand we had these kinda material erasers, eraser blocks. And so you understand earlier than you’re going to jot down one thing on the board you simply erase every part that’s there and type of return to that clean slate, the tabula rasa. And in a method consciousness itself is the final word tabula rasa. It’s type of the primordial, uncreated supply of all creations. So we return to that earlier than we start, proper? I had you do some stabilizing breath meditation first. However then we go into huge, spacious consciousness and basically wipe the blackboard clear, we erase the blackboard. And that offers us a wonderful palette, or what’s the proper phrase? The canvas, a wonderful canvas upon which to – now I’m going to vary from the blackboard metaphor as a result of we’re utilizing colours. A gorgeous canvas upon which to color our visualization of those varied energies.
So in case you wish to go over that once more, we had been doing first—power of simply unconditional kindness, unconditional caring, love and so forth. And that’s simply consciousness itself. That was the white mild on the prime of the top.
Then within the head it was gold and yellow mild. And that was the knowledge, particularly the knowledge power of all of the non secular academics.
After which we went to the guts which was inexperienced power. Inexperienced power of affection, of friendship, of group, of connectedness. In order that was the inexperienced.
After which we went right down to the photo voltaic plexus, type of the higher stomach. That actual radiant, intense, crimson protecting power. A number of individuals report that once they do the mandala visualization, or on this case the central channel, one of many central channel visualizations, that crimson power looks like the one which’s probably the most lacking or the toughest to get in contact with. And the concept there’s – a part of the kindness, a part of the caring that we’re discussing is taking care; taking good care of different beings like simply how you’d shield a tiny animal otherwise you would shield just a little child, or no matter. That type of fierce safety, “hey I’m not gonna let any person hurt this being.” Effectively, in the identical method we now have non secular protectors who really feel that method about us. We’ve got energetic or, or imaginary, archetypal protectors who really feel that method about all beings or the entire earth or the entire universe. That type of like, “hey, we’re going to maintain this factor and we’re going to really use our power to guard it.” In order that’s that crimson protecting power and if that feels weak for you or it was arduous to get in contact with then, that’s telling you one thing, proper? That’s, and actually this entire method of visualizing will be considered type of a, too robust a phrase is analysis, but it surely simply type of exhibits you the place possibly issues are just a little weak. And so for those who, like many individuals, weren’t in a position to tune into that protecting power so simply or it was not as accessible, then I would like you to spend further time interested by what symbolizes safety; like ‘fierce, mama bear safety of the cubs’ type of power for you. And to have the ability to image that and to really feel that, okay?
After which taking place all the way in which to the perineum, all the way in which to the bottom of the backbone. All the way in which to the type of like, fundament of the physique. We’ve got that blue power and that’s the power of the muse, the groundedness. The type of physicality of our being itself. It’s a beautiful indigo blue; deep, deep, blue mild. And you are feeling that type of structuring precept, the patterning precept, we even really feel the ancestors. So there’s an entire reference to demise there. And that one goes all the way in which down. We may consider it as going all the way in which down into the core of the earth. Similar to we will image the higher one, the type of like, formless knowledge one, increasing out to contact the complete universe.
And so you’ll be able to consider this visualization nevertheless you need. It may be type of a Jungian psychological, a Jungian-esque psychological device. Or you understand, relying by yourself private method of regarding issues, you’ll be able to consider these as actual energies and actual refined beings and with Buddhas and bodhisattvas and varied deities concerned. So it’s, you’ll be able to take it nevertheless you wish to take it. However you’ll discover after doing the visualization that you simply really feel extra centered, extra alive. Issues are extra vibrant, extra 3D. And likewise there’s a type of readability and your coronary heart is open. It’s very, very, crucial. Once more, I mentioned this throughout the meditation, however if you’re picturing these knowledge beings, no matter, whoever they could be. I don’t need you to ever consider them as being judgmental or like ‘oh, you’re a sinner or oh, you’re doing it incorrect, or no matter’. They’re by no means like that. That’s, that isn’t the power of a knowledge being. The power is – they’re in your aspect. They actually love you and care about you and so they wish to make it easier to to develop in a very optimistic method. They actually simply need the perfect for you. They need you, they need you to develop and so they need the perfect for everybody else, too. So it’s not like a zero-sum sport. It’s not like, ‘oh, they need you to develop on the expense of the remainder of the world’. They need you to develop along with all different beings. So these are the type of energies that I would like you to image. When, particularly for the knowledge beings, the non secular beings, the guides within the yellow mild within the head – we may have put it proper within the third eye if we wished to – a solution to image them is actually in your aspect. Not someway judging you or discovering you falling quick, okay? In order that’s just a little bit about that, just a little bit about this visualization. Let me know the way that went for you.
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