Guided meditation by Michael Taft
After the one-hour guided meditation, there’s a dharma talk and Q&A.
About this meditation. Many individuals feel that they’ve a “center of awareness,” which is the place that it looks like all consciousness is coming from. Where “I” am. For many Westerners, this place is often around or behind the eyes. We’ll call this the “felt center of awareness.”
The thing about awareness is that—if we have a look at it subjectively—it’s not coming from anywhere in any respect. It’s just form of in all places around us. We are usually not intentionally generating it or making it occur. Awareness just is, and it doesn’t even have a middle. So the “felt center of awareness” is a construction; something we’re making up. In fact, there are actual body sensations there, equivalent to the sensation of the eyes, or the muscles across the eyes. But we’re simply “assigning” the source of awareness to those sensations.
When you notice that fact, it becomes easy to maneuver the “felt center of awareness” across the body to any spot you want. In case you are aware of a spot (i.e. you’re feeling it) you then can assign those feelings to develop into the brand new felt center of awareness. We move it around to 3 centers of awareness on this meditation. This seems to be really fun and interesting. And it also results in the further realization that awareness isn’t actually centered anywhere, isn’t generated anywhere. Awareness just is.
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