Meditation: Role A

Meditation: The Wholeness of Non-Meditation (25 MINUTES)

CONDITION A: SIMPLE (OPENNESS)

Searching the Self

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

Feeling the simple sense of “me.”
Bringing that sense into awareness
as if introducing it to the field of practice.

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 (a) & (b):

Bringing clear 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, all around, within…
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 the 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.

One Taste(c):

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.

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

Recognizing each moment as open—
open as the intelligence of Love–Wisdom.

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

If anything feels dull or heavy,
brightening your curiosity…
seeing again through beauty and joy
until openness reveals itself.

Including now the subtler layers—
background habits, minimized windows,
old beliefs moving in the depths.

Letting even confusion, reactivity,
and the faintest movement of selfing
be known as openness,
Love–Wisdom intelligent within itself.

Everything melting into open awareness
like snowflakes melting in warm water.

CONDITION B: IMMEDIACY (LUCIDLY AWAKE AWARENESS)

Settling the body deeper now…
bringing yourself fully into this instant.

No past.
No future.
Just the clear, clean mirror of awareness
directly reflecting whatever appears.

Feeling each sound, each sensation,
each flicker of movement
known before any story arises—
fresh, naked, direct.

Allowing awareness to meet each moment
with sharp immediacy.
Each perception known exactly as it arises—
nothing in between.

Feeling the brilliance of immediacy itself—
awake, vivid, alive.

Shifting the emphasis now
to the knowing.

Feeling the brightness of awareness—
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 naked knowing.

Gently opening the eyes again
into a soft 360° gaze…
seeing everything in the same clarity—
bright, open, immediate.

Including sound now…
hearing each sound as light—
reflections in this mirror of awareness.

Letting hearing and seeing
remain connected to the heart.

Closing the eyes again…
resting as an ocean of spacious, liquid light—
brilliantly awake, tender, open.
No boundary between knowing and feeling.

Letting the brightness of awareness
clear any subtle contraction.

Feeling the heart, brain, 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—
the whole appearing visually.

Resting into the open stability of the ground
beneath and within you—
the body settling like a mountain
resting into the earth.

Feeling this grounded stability
as an expression of the whole.

Opening awareness to the field of tenderness
within and around you—
the warmth of the heart
glowing as the whole.

Listening into the full sphere of sound—
the silence within it,
the silence beneath it.
Hearing the auditory field
as boundariless and whole.

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…
complete contentment.

Allowing awareness to become
simple…
innocent…
whole…

Seeing, hearing, sensing, feeling
everything at once
as one undivided field.

Relaxing as the whole.

Opening into the innocence of infant consciousness—
the way an infant abides in the Mother’s presence,
with no inside or outside,
no separation,
only tender completeness.

Recognizing this open, lucid awareness
as Mother Consciousness itself—
holding everything
and expressing everything.

Resting as this wholeness—
innocent, tender, whole.

CONDITION D: UNFOLDING

Softening now
into the unfolding field…

Allowing innocent wholeness
to attune tenderly
to the entire field of experience.

Recognizing how the whole field unfolds
continuously—
a flower-mandala opening
to itself,
by itself.

Resting as the whole—
stable and open—
noticing how experience
gives birth to itself
moment by moment.

Feeling this unfolding
like lava from a volcano—
unbounded and open.

Stable as a mountain…
innocent and open…
continuously blossoming.

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

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

Inhabiting both at once:
tender, vulnerable, absorbing…
and steady, embracing, all-holding.

Finding the sweet spot—
stable and wide open,
innocent and tender—
the whole attuning to itself.

Recognizing yourself
as Buddha-nature
and bodhisattva
simultaneously.

Buddha-nature nourishing.
Bodhisattva unfolding.

Feeling experience unfold
stable as earth
yet flowing like water.

Absorbing the attunement
of the whole.

Wide open.
Wide awake.
Bright.

Sensing the field
as stable, unfolding, bright—
intelligent,
unfolding itself
by itself
to itself.

Trusting the stability of the ground…
trusting matter…
trusting the body.

Relaxing into the ground beneath
and the body within—
allowing the bio-lotus
to blossom
by itself,
to itself.

As any subtle pattern arises,
enfolding it
in the molten lava of awakening—
opened, dissolved, burned through.

Remaining stable,
lucid,
contented,
innocent.

Resting awareness in the heart now…
feeling the heart blaze forward…
compassion fueling the unfolding.

The sun radiant in the chest.
The fire-lotus burning karma.
The deep purring of a great lion—
stable, open, whole, awake.

Continuously releasing…
feeling wholeness expanding…

Unfolding like a widening mandala…
like a boundaryless sphere…
like the sun radiant in the heart.

The eternal blossoming
of the heart
by itself
to itself.

Feeling the heart
growing confident
it can digest whatever arises.

Greater confidence…
greater radiance…
greater dynamism.

The blazing heart
and the unfolding experience…
each illuminating the other.

Stable.
Open.
Whole.
Awake.

The eternal blossoming
of the radiant fire-lotus…
burning through whatever arises…
and shining
without limit.