Guided Nondual Meditation by Michael W. Taft
Okay. So let’s begin our meditation. Now as usual what I’d such as you to do is take your
meditation posture and tonight I’ll just say, as a substitute of going into all the small print, I’ll just say; sit up nice and straight in a way that feels really comfortable and let the remainder of your whole body calm down. Okay. Just sit up nice and straight should you can. Don’t lean your back on the back of a chair but just sit up allowing your back to carry itself up in a way that feels very nice and permit the entire remainder of your entire body to easily calm down.
We’re going to do some prolonged rest type stuff tonight different than usual, somewhat bit different anyway. And as a substitute of claiming, “what I would love you to do–if you must–it’s okay to do that rest part lying in your back,” it’s should you try this together with your knees elevated or a pillow under your knees in order that your lower back is flat on the ground. Nevertheless you do it, you may as well do it in shavasana, from yoga or whatever. But we wish to essentially kick off this final meditation of the 12 months. We wish people to get very, very, very relaxed. And remember the opposite side of this, besides the comfort, is staying real alert. So although you’re getting real relaxed I don’t want you to get foggy or sleepy. So should you get foggy or sleepy, open your eyes and even meditate standing up since it’s very necessary that you simply don’t go right into a dream or get drowsy. Irrespective of how relaxed we get we wish to remain an actual alert.
Okay. Now that you simply are in whatever posture you’re going to take, let’s set our intention and in addition connect in with our resource. But tonight we’re going to combine connecting with the resource to the comfort we’re doing. Okay, so we’re going to try this part together. So let’s just start with the intention where you remember why you’re meditating, what’s the goal, why are you doing this in any respect. It is advisable to say, “hey, I would like to attach with my very own innermost wisdom and compassion and help to make the world a kinder place,” something like that. Who knows, but that could be one in every of your motivations a few of your intention on your meditation. So I’ll just be silent for a moment whilst you connect in together with your motivation for meditating, whatever that’s.
Okay. Good. Now what we’re gonna do is; I would like you to bring up a visualization, like we do fairly often in here, and this is an element of our resource constructing, we visualize things which can be powerful, helpful, transformative things that help us in essence get into the proper headspace to do the meditation. Tonight what I’d such as you to visualise–like we do visualize sometimes–is a gorgeous sun, right? Just like the sun within the sky. And I would like you to visualise this sun in front of you, and it’s very warm in a nice way, not too hot very, very nice and in addition extremely beautiful, the colour gold of the sunshine is sort of a ghee candle, should you’ve ever seen the flame of a ghee lamp, not a candle, it’s a ghee lamp, it burns butter, right? And clarified butter, which is ghee, the colour of that flame is that this very, very exquisite golden hue. And so this sun in front of us, this three-dimensional spherical good sun has this very, very beautiful soft golden hue. Okay, so picture that now in front of you very, very clearly.
And as usual this sun represents our own deepest Buddha nature, the proven fact that we’re all already enlightened bodhisattvas and so we’re going to tackle among the properties but we’re going to essentially dwell on particular properties. So we’re going to do that in a unique order than normal, okay? So I would like you to first see a ray of sunshine, a gorgeous ray of sunshine coming from this golden sun and hitting you within the lower belly, right? This hara region of your lower belly, the lower dantian. It’s like an energy spot you possibly can feel. It’s like a pair inches below 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 just seems like a nexus or something. And so the energy coming from the sun this beautiful golden energy is pouring into the lower belly and it’s filling you with a way of liveliness, a way of awakeness, a way of play and spontaneity, but mainly just health, and strength, and vigor, right? It’s really energetic, that is the liveliness spot and so that you’re feeling that energy pouring into your body, pouring into your body making you’re feeling energized, awake, healthy, right? Ready for anything, bushy-tailed, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed is what this spot does. Okay, so feel that now, take that in and really notice that on the in-breath that energy gets even stronger and on the out-breath it form of suffuses through your body.
Good. Now while that continues to occur, that beam of that ray of sunshine from the sun keeps pouring into your lower belly, one other beam comes into your brow and you are feeling this ray of sunshine bringing wisdom, and clarity, and confidence, right? It’s bringing wisdom, and clarity, and confidence and you are feeling this very strongly, very deeply. It’s quite clear. It’s quite clear, you possibly can see that tremendously clearly, and you are feeling the wisdom, you’re feeling the boldness. And again the entire field of the mind brightens, and clarifies, right? So your deepest, wisest, most intelligent mind comes forward beaming from the sun, the sun of our own already existing enlightened wisdom. And again we’re feeling that are available in on the in-breath after which suffuse through the entire body the entire being on the out-breath.
Good. Now that is the part we’re going to essentially deal with tonight; a 3rd ray of sunshine comes, the opposite two are still going, but a 3rd ray of sunshine comes into your heart and it touches you in essentially the most sensitive, private, deepest a part of your heart, right? The guts of hearts as we sometimes say, right? In your heart of hearts. And you actually feel that ray of sunshine from the sun touching you deeply. It’s not hitting the front of your chest in an armored way and also you’re form of guarding against it, no, you’re wide, wide, wide open and the ray of sunshine comes into your chest and begins to fill your heart with kindness, and caring, and compassion, and love and you are feeling very deeply that this sun of enlightened wisdom in front of you is beaming a form of complete unconditional acceptance to you, right? It loves you. It wants the very best for you. It sees your highest qualities, your best qualities, your highest aspirations. It sees only the very best in you, only the great in you. And it’s really the sunshine from this ray–it’s really highlighting all of the best things inside you. And you actually feel that love and that acceptance and it’s allowing you to form of glow with a sense of being loved, and being cared for, and being accepted, and being mothered.
On the in-breath you’re feeling yourself taking more of that in. That is like perfect mothering, right? It’s not like, whatever–regardless of how good our human mother has been, they may at all times have their flaws. But this is ideal mothering. That is Buddha mothering all the things good, all the things unconditional, all the things nearly kindness, nearly caring, nearly protection, nearly wanting the very best for you and seeing who you actually are, seeing what you really want and just filling you up with that sense of being seen, and cared for, and loved and on each out-breath that just suffuses your whole being, not only your whole body but your whole mind, and your whole being, right? You actually feel that sense of being tremendously cared for, tremendously seen, totally understood. So feel that now.
Okay. Good. Now continuing to permit these three beams of sunshine to return into your body, into your mind, into your being. Let’s begin doing our shamatha with an object. We’re going to be meditating on rest so we’re not–often we meditate on respiration while allowing the body to calm down–tonight we’re going to meditate on the comfort itself and the respiration is an element of it but our principal focus is the comfort.
Okay, so what I would like you to note here is that the three beams now converge into one beam, only a beam from the sun of enlightened wisdom that’s still shining in front of you. And this beam of gold and yellow light into the center and that incorporates all of the wisdom stuff from the mind and all of the healing energy stuff from the belly, however it’s mainly the love, and the kindness, and the caring in the center. And so it’s one big beam into the center. Okay and this beam now’s–since it feels so good to feel so cared for, you possibly can begin to calm down.
And so I would like you to permit this radiant light that’s glowing in your heart now to start to fill your face and head. So the muscles of the brow calm down, and the eyes calm down, and feel them suffusing with this energy of being cared for, energy of kindness, energy of affection, energy of being understood. Your cheeks, your lips, your chin, your tongue, your scalp, the entire head–even on the within–your whole brain, your whole nasal passages, all the things in the top is suffusing with this golden yellow light of being loved, and being cared for and it’s similar to causing all the things in the top to calm down, and to let go, and to feel ease, and peace.
And I would like you to not deal with the things that aren’t letting go, deal with the things which can be letting go, things that do feel good, the things that feel nice, that feel relaxed. And the stress just drains away more, and more, and more, and more, and more as you notice clearly that areas of the face and head are feeling more gentle, more relaxed, more open, more comfy, and in addition more awake. And on the in-breath you’re feeling more of that golden yellow light filling the top and causing peace, and ease, and openness, and acceptance, and kindness, and like to fill the complete face and head. After which on the on the out-breath, you’re feeling that growing stronger, right? On the out-breath the comfort, the relief, the openness, the kindness, the love grows even stronger. So let’s just try this with the top now for a moment or two.
Good. Now let’s imagine this light coming from the sun in front of us, the sun of enlightened wisdom beaming into our hearts. And now it’s radiating up and never only filling the top however it’s filling the neck, and the throat, and the shoulders, that whole collar region in front and in back, and even all the best way inside. And all the stress there just melts like wax melting in a candle, and all of it just drains away, it drains out. And as a substitute, the neck, and throat, and the shoulders fill with this delicious glowing light of kindness, and caring, and love, and being accepted, and being understood, and being completely seen. And so all the stress within the throat, all the stress within the neck, all the stress within the shoulders just relaxes and drains away. And on the in-breath you’re feeling you possibly can even visualize an increasing number of of this gold and yellow light filling the neck, filling the throat, filling the shoulders all the best way inside. And all the things relaxing an increasing number of deeply. After which on the out-breath, it lets go much more completely.
With each out-breath it relaxes more totally, it relaxes more fully, it relaxes more completely in order that not only your face and head but now your throat and neck and shoulder region is glowing and releasing in the sunshine of this tremendous kindness, love, caring and nurturing.
Good. Now on the following in-breath the sunshine begins to fill the arms, and hands, and fingers. They’re filled, they change into yellow radiant sunlight. They’re glowing with a radiant peace. All the stress drains away. They change into limp like wet noodles they usually fill with golden light and all the stress drains away they usually begin to feel rest. All of the knots in your arms, all of the tightness within the wrists and the hands, all that just drains away. And as a substitute, your arms and hands and fingers feel that very touching presence of kindness, of caring, of being seen in a positive light, being nurtured, being cared for. You actually feel that mothering energy just loving up your face, your head, your neck and throat, your shoulders, your arms and your hands. And on the in-breath, much more light is available in, and you are feeling more rest spreading through the body, and on the out-breath it gets even stronger in a really nice way.
This sun of our own enlightened wisdom is just beaming this energy into the center after which the energy suffusing the body, this energy of affection, this energy of kindness, this energy of rest, and release, and letting go. Similar to you’re a baby within the arms of this bodhisattva mommy, this Buddha mommy, who’s holding you and caring for you as deeply and completely and totally because it’s possible to be cared for. So just let go into that now and see the way it’s possible to simply simply drop now right into a much deeper place, a much deeper rest, a more total letting go, layers of letting go, deeper, right? If you just open up.
And the beam from that radiant sun of wisdom and love comes more completely into your heart. After which on the following in-breath you notice your whole chest region, your whole upper back, even your belly, and your lower back region, the entire trunk and torso is suffused with this radiant light, this golden light of affection and kindness, and all the stress drains away. And you are feeling, on the out-breath, this type of tremendous letting go of tension within the body. You are feeling an incredible sense of affection filling your heart. It’s kind love, it’s really sweet, it’s really caring, it really sees you, it really understands you, it really wants only the very best for you, and it’s nurturing every little smartest thing about you in every possible way and all the things else just drains away. And you are feeling the entire trunk of your body just releasing and opening, and releasing and opening, and releasing and opening, experiencing a form of mother Buddha love that you simply’ve never experienced in your entire life before, it’s deeper, and purer, and more total, and it allows your whole torso, your arms and hands, your neck, your upper body, the entire upper body and the top to simply release and open, and be full of this radiant light of affection and kindness, to be full of this golden glow of health and joy and compassion.
And again it’s so sweet, and so real, and deep, and sort, and open that it means that you can just drop much more deeply now, to simply drop now into like a really, very open place where you’re just almost like simply a ray, a body of golden light and an increasing number of of this golden sunlight fills your whole pelvic region, and your legs, and your feet, and your toes. And you are feeling all tension, all tightness, all discomfort draining out of your legs and feet and toes. And on the in-breath much more sunlight of golden love comes into your legs and feet and toes and on the out-breath they change into an increasing number of suffused with this kindness, infused with love, infused with caring, infused with a way the body is accepted exactly because it is. Your complete body is accepted exactly because it is. Your complete emotional body is accepted exactly because it is. Your complete mind is accepted and loved exactly because it is. The entire, your whole being is loved and accepted and cared for and even cherished, utterly cherished exactly because it is.
And the impact of feeling a lot caring, and a lot connectedness, and a lot understanding and a lot kindness just changes your entire being, your whole body, your mind, your emotions, all the things right into a body of radiant golden light. And on the in-breath more golden light fills the body after which the out-breath it grows even stronger and you are feeling any last vestiges of tension just draining out of the body and the entire body seems like it’s made from light. It feels good. It feels energized. It feels relaxed. It seems like all the things is just perfect within the body, just that wonderful feeling of all the things being good, and loved, cared for, kind.
And as you replenish your gas tank of affection and kindness and caring, you start to note that your body of radiant golden light is beginning to glow even brighter, beginning to glow even brighter, and on the in-breath it takes in additional light, after which on the out-breath it glows brighter, after which on the in-breath it takes in much more light from the sun of radiant wisdom in front of you, after which within the out breath it glows even brighter. And now, on the following in-breath, the sun of the radiant wisdom in front of us actually enters us, it is available in and fills our whole body in order that our radiant body of golden light and this radiant sun of golden light are only one golden light. So let’s just breathe with that now for some time together, letting this radiant light fill our body after which actually 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 notice that this radiant body of golden light centered in the center is just effortlessly glowing and spreading this sense of Buddha mother love, kindness, caring, connection out in all directions. Okay, and I would like you to start to radiate this love and kindness towards–we’re going to start with the people right around us, the people 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 family, people who find themselves in your inner circle. And I would like you to simply picture this radiant golden sweetness and kindness beaming out from you in all directions and individually see everyone and/or animal or whatever form of being they’re, see them touched by this golden light of Buddha love, mother Buddha love, kindness and caring and it makes them tremendously completely happy. See their faces completely happy or their tails wagging or whatever. See them as radiant, joyous, healthy, completely happy, full of peace and joy.
Okay, so this radiant love of the Buddha heart inside you, the mother Buddha kindness love heart inside you–see it affecting all of the people around you and just keep feeling it in yourself. Don’t let this get fraught or difficult in any way, just see it as just pure you, just want the very best for them. You only want them to be completely happy and healthy. You only need to help them to thrive. Anything that makes them joyous, that’s healthy and completely happy, makes you joyous. After which the enjoyment of that radiant love and kindness just grows and grows, so see all of the family members around you individually becoming utterly impacted, utterly loved by this radiant light now. Now this radiant delicious golden light of affection and kindness and caring is so overjoyed at our family members also feeling joy, feeling love, feeling caring and seeing them completely happy, seeing/serious about them doing well, that we glow even brighter much more golden much more loving much more completely caring and sort, wanting what’s best for everybody, wanting what’s best for every being on the planet, seeing them doing their best and rejoicing in that. And really taking motion to care for them, to assist them to do even higher.
In order that our entire body now is just not body shaped. It’s like a sphere or a globe of yellow light centered on the center, tremendously large and now we’re the sun of yellow light, right? We’re the sun of this mother Buddha love. And let the sun radiate out now to your whole neighborhood, everyone in your immediate vicinity, all of the animals, all of the beings in your neighborhood. Just picture even all of the plants, even all of the insects, all the things, even the water, and the air, all the things becomes healthier, happier. The radiant kindness of your mother Buddha love fills them with joy, 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 just exactly who and what they’re. Just allow this light of your heart, this light of the sun, this golden light of caring and kindness just radiate much more brightly, much more powerfully, much more beautifully. And permit it to simply melt your mind, allow it to simply melt any confusion, any struggle within the mind.
And your whole mind just also turns to radiant light so that each one that’s filling the mind is images of beings becoming completely happy and healthy full of peace and love and just filled as much as the brim with this sense of nurturing and kindness and caring.
Okay. Good, and now we’re going to go really wide. I would like you to note that this sense of affection and kindness and joy and feeling cared for that you simply’re bathing in and in addition radiating out now spreads to encompass the entire world. So every human on the planet, every animal on the planet, every being on the planet, even plants and trees, even the air and water, even the earth, even the sky, allow this radiant love, this kindness, this caring, the sense of really seeing how tremendously indescribably invaluable each being is, how indescribably precious each being is and radiating out the sense of caring for them, loving them, really seeing them for who they are surely and allowing the entire world to simply bask on this radiant kindness of Buddha love. And remember you’re a being on the planet too so that you’re continuing to simply open an increasing number of deeply, to be suffused with this love, and your mind is just melted, it’s just absolutely melted into radiant glowing yellow light of compassion and kindness and caring.
Good. And now let this loving kindness and caring and delightful golden light opened up to fill the complete universe and all universes in all places, bringing kindness caring love compassion to all beings in all places.
Good. Now notice that in the sunshine of this mother Buddha love there’s no boundary anywhere, right? This radiant light of mother Buddha love pervades all space. Nothing can block it. It radiates in all places. After which also notice that this radiant golden light of Buddha love, Buddha compassion, Buddha caring has been here since beginningless time and might be here ceaselessly. It didn’t start anywhere. It would never end. It’s simply eternally present and present in all places.
Good. After which notice that this light of Buddha kindness is present in all places and due to this fact doesn’t really have a middle, although it felt prefer it’s radiating from our heart, it’s actually situated in all places and radiating through the complete universe and so it doesn’t really also have a center, or lets say in all places including our heart is the middle.
Good. And spot that your mind is melted and opened into golden light. All thoughts, all imaginings, all emotions, all sense of personality, even the sense of doing anything is just dissolved into golden light. And this golden light may be very soft, very gentle and see that this golden light is present in all places and at the identical time a single point of it’s glowing incredibly brightly in the middle of your being, a single point of sunshine glowing in an enormous space of awareness. This light is pristine, this light is ideal, this light is gorgeous, it’s kind, it’s loving, it’s caring, it’s sensible, it’s clear, it’s full of life, it’s full of energy, it’s full of playfulness and spontaneity.
Just be with that light now, be that light now. And now noticing that even that light itself is in some ways empty and yet there. Similar to thoughts and feelings are empty but there. Personality, the body, it’s empty but there. Time and space, the world around you, people, beings empty but there. There’s an actual sense of connectedness with all the things. No boundary between ourselves and the rest, an actual sense of the nobility and dignity of each being, almost indescribable preciousness of each being and even of the world itself, of water, air, sky, of mountains and trees, of the land. Really feel that now and at the identical time feel its dreamlike quality, its tremendous ephemerality as we bring this final meditation of the 12 months to an in depth.
Let’s just spend a moment dedicating ourselves to appreciating our life, appreciating all the opposite beings in our life, appreciating the world, the proven fact that there may be a world to be in. Appreciating all of the beings, appreciating all that we’ve got and really feeling that now. After which we are able to bring the meditation to an in depth very gently, still feeling relaxed, still feeling open, feeling suffused with love and kindness and caring and allowing your body to maneuver and stretch and feel good. The body likes to maneuver. Allow the body to maneuver. Possibly have a drink of water.
Dharma Talk
And so what I’d prefer to do tonight is as a substitute of—the meditation was its own teaching—as a substitute of just repeating all the things I said within the meditation or having you ask questions, as a substitute what I’d prefer to do tonight is have everyone who’s still with us, all 32 of you on this experience tonight I’d such as you within the chat window to bless everyone, just discuss your love and your kindness and caring for everybody on the planet. So everyone because if we could do it and go around separately in a room we might say please speak of your love and your joy and your blessing for the world but as a substitute I’d similar to you to type it within the chat window each one in every of you. After which we’ll all just read those together. Okay so please go ahead. And it doesn’t need to be long. It just needs to be heartfelt. This isn’t about being articulate or being poetic it’s simply about speaking from the center, speaking truth from the center and should you’re watching this video doing this guided meditation later, even years later please within the comment window make a comment about kindness and caring for other beings, all the opposite beings within the meditation, all the opposite beings on the planet, the world itself. Just share with us some heartfelt blessing now.
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