Meditation: The Wholeness of Non-Meditation

(Condensed Closing Version with Extended Dedication — Approximately 25 Minutes)

CONDITION A: SIMPLE OPENNESS

Searching the Self

Settling the body now…
letting the breath soften…
allowing yourself to arrive fully in this moment.

Feeling the simple sense of “me.”
Bringing that sense gently into awareness.

Gently searching through sensations…
through sounds…
through thoughts and images…
looking for the solid self.

Moment by moment, noticing
that this “me” cannot actually be found—
not located, not graspable.

And as this becomes clear,
resting as the awareness that remains:
still… open… lucid… non-reactive.

Resting into this openness
like space pouring into space.

One Taste

Bringing loving awareness
to the field of sound now.

Listening into the silence behind each sound…
beneath each sound…
around each sound…

Recognizing silence as open, unbounded, without edge.

Letting the boundary between inside-silence
and outside-silence dissolve.

Sensing next the field of tenderness
around and within the body…

The heart’s natural warmth.

Feeling how this tenderness is also unbounded…
the whole expressing itself as warmth and attunement.

Softening into it
like water joining water.

Feeling the field of sensation now—
movement, vibration, pulsing…

And behind, within, all around…
stillness.

Letting yourself rest into this stillness
the way a mountain rests into the earth.

Sensing how sensations arise and dissolve
like mist dissolving into space.

Gently opening the eyes…

Seeing forms and space together…

Noticing spaciousness within everything
and around everything.

Allowing awareness to expand in all directions—
no boundary, no limit.

Silence… tenderness… stillness… spaciousness…
revealing themselves as one single field—
the ocean of loving awareness.

Closing the eyes
without losing this view.

Resting as this ocean now.

Sounds arising as waves in silence.
Sensations as waves in stillness.
Thoughts, feelings, images—
waves shimmering in this same ocean…
arising… glowing… dissolving.

No inside.
No outside.

The wave is the ocean in motion.

Immediate Knowing

Feeling the warmth of awareness gathered here…

Bringing a fresh intention of immediacy.

Letting each arising—
sensation… emotion… sound… perception—
be known the moment it appears.

Recognizing how whatever appears
is instantly known
within a field that is naturally open.

Feeling how each experience is empty of solidity
yet radiant and alive
within this field of loving knowing.

If anything feels dull or contracted,
brightening curiosity gently…

Seeing again through beauty and openness.

Including now even subtle layers—
old beliefs… background moods…
reactivity… self-protection…

Letting even these
be known within openness itself.

Everything melting into awareness
like snowflakes dissolving in warm water.

CONDITION B: IMMEDIACY & LUCID AWARENESS

Settling the body deeper now…

No past.
No future.

Just the clear mirror of awareness
directly reflecting whatever appears.

Feeling each sound…
each sensation…
each flicker of movement…
known before any story forms around it.

Awareness meeting experience immediately—
fresh… direct… alive.

Feeling the brightness of awareness itself.

Illuminating space…
illuminating silence…
illuminating itself.

Resting in this immediacy—
clear… awake… timeless.

Feeling awareness glowing in the heart—
radiant, loving, precise.

A mirror-like wisdom
shining from the heart itself.

Sensing awareness in all directions—
left, right, above, below…

No inside.
No outside.

Just one bright field of knowing.

Gently opening the eyes again
into a soft 360-degree gaze…

Seeing everything in the same clarity—
bright, open, immediate.

Hearing and seeing together
within the same field of awareness.

Closing the eyes again…

Resting as an ocean of spacious, liquid light—
brilliantly awake… tender… open.

Feeling heart, mind, and body
settle into one coherent field.

Breathing in…
and softening deeper.

CONDITION C: WHOLENESS & INNOCENT AWARENESS

Opening the eyes now
into the whole visual field.

Taking everything in at once
as a single continuous openness.

Feeling the stable ground beneath and within you—
the body resting like a mountain into the earth.

Opening awareness to tenderness…
the warmth of the heart glowing quietly.

Listening into the full sphere of sound—
the silence within it… beneath it…

Vision open as the whole.
Sensation grounded as the whole.
Tenderness glowing as the whole.
Sound resonating as the whole.

Everything revealing itself
as one great open field.

Feeling held by the wholeness…
and resting as that same wholeness.

Simple.
Open.
Complete.

Allowing awareness to become innocent…
whole…
undivided.

Seeing… hearing… sensing… feeling…
everything together
as one continuous field.

Relaxing into the innocence of infant consciousness—
resting in the presence of the Mother.

No inside.
No outside.
Only tender completeness.

Recognizing this open awareness
as Mother Consciousness itself—
holding everything…
expressing everything.

Resting as this wholeness—
innocent… tender… whole.

CONDITION D: UNFOLDING

Softening now
into the unfolding field…

Recognizing how experience unfolds continuously—
moment by moment—
like a flower opening to itself.

Resting as the whole—
stable and open—
while experience blossoms naturally.

Stable as a mountain…
open as the sky…
alive as flowing water.

Taking now the perspective
of the infant
being attuned to by Mother Consciousness…

and at the same time
Mother Consciousness
attuning to the infant.

Inhabiting both at once:

tender and vulnerable…
steady and all-holding.

Finding the sweet spot—
stable… innocent… open…

the whole attuning to itself.

Recognizing yourself
as Buddha-nature
and bodhisattva simultaneously.

Awareness nourishing.
Compassion unfolding.

Trusting the stability of the ground…
trusting the body…
trusting the unfolding process itself.

As any subtle pattern arises,
allowing it to soften and dissolve
within the warmth of awakening.

Remaining stable…
lucid…
contented…
whole.

Resting awareness in the heart now…

Feeling the heart blaze gently forward—
compassion fueling the unfolding.

The radiant fire-lotus of the heart…
steady… open… awake.

The eternal blossoming
of the heart
by itself…
to itself.

DEDICATION

And now, resting together in this field of awareness…
this field of tenderness…
this field of unfolding…

we take a few moments to consciously dedicate the goodness of this practice.

First, we dedicate this practice to one another.

To everyone in this circle.

To all those who have practiced together through this year…
through sincerity…
through struggle…
through courage…
through openness…
through care.

May the goodness cultivated here support each person’s healing, flourishing, awakening, and unfolding.

May we continue nourishing what is deepest and most beautiful within one another.

(Pause)

And we dedicate this practice
to all those throughout the world
who are sincerely working to alleviate suffering in its many forms.

To the caregivers…
teachers…
parents…
healers…
protectors…
artists…
wisdom keepers…
and quiet bodhisattvas everywhere…

known and unknown.

May all those serving the good be supported.

May wisdom, compassion, and courage continue unfolding through humanity.

(Pause)

And we dedicate this practice
to all the elders, ancestors, practitioners, and bodhisattvas
who have carried forward the streams of goodness, truth, beauty, wisdom, and awakening across generations.

All those who preserved the light through difficult times.

All those whose care, sacrifice, and devotion
made these teachings and practices available to us now.

May we honor them not only in memory,
but through how we live.

(Pause)

And finally, we dedicate this practice
to all beings in all realms…
in all directions…
through all times.

May whatever goodness has emerged here
ripple outward through the interconnected field of life.

May suffering be lessened.

May confusion soften.

May fear give way to wisdom.

May compassion deepen.

May the seeds cultivated together
flourish into greater peace…
greater care…
greater sanity…
greater love…
within humanity and within this living planet.

(Pause)

And may all beings, everywhere,
gradually awaken
into the fullness of their true nature.

Resting together now…
in gratitude…
in openness…
and in the vast field of the heart.