Meditation Review

Meditation: Ocean and Waves (25 MINUTES) :

Please take time to review the meditation, practice delivering it aloud to yourself. Get a sense of the timing. Be sensitive for the need to set the meditation up such as Settling with the Hero’s Journey or just Searching for the Self, you could also do a minute of Calm/Staying, Openness of the Body. It’s your offering. Make it your own. You will need to practice it so you are not rushed and you can make the instructions your own.

Settling with the Hero’s Journey
Take your meditation posture, sitting upright. Allow the eyes to close. Reflect on the heroic journey of your life in this moment, noticing the challenges and the places where there is grab. Recognize the sense of self that is caught there. See it clearly — the patterns, the behavior, the familiar way of getting stuck.

Searching the Self
Bring that sense of self into your practice. Now search through the field of experience: sensations, sounds, thoughts, and images. Moment by moment, look for the solid self. As you search, the self becomes unfindable, unlocatable. When this recognition dawns, affirm awareness that is still, open, non-reactive, and lucidly clear.

Listening
Listening to the silence behind, beneath, and within every sound. Recognize this silence is unbounded and silent, loving, heart-knowing. Rest into this unbounded field of silence.

Now, become curious: where does this open field end and where does it begin inside? On the left side, look to see where the open field of silence around you ends, and where the silence within begins. Where is the boundary? Now, look again: where is the boundary between the silence on the left and the silence on the right? Between the silence inside on the right and the silence outside on the right?

Just recognize there is an unbounded field of open silence. No left, no right, no inside, no outside. No knower separate from the field of silent knowing. Recognize that the field of sound is a field of non-dual perception. Notice too the lucid clarity of awareness that knows this silence — bright, mirror-like, awake.

Grounding
Feel the stability of the ground beneath you. Release into it, letting the body rest like a mountain into the earth. Recognize the open ground as unbounded, timeless, eternal — no inside, no outside. The ground and the body are not two.

Now look closely: where does the stability of the open ground end and awareness begin? Where does the body end and loving awareness begin? Search for the boundary. None can be found.

Recognize again: the open ground is unbounded, timeless, eternal — no inside, no outside. The open ground and the body are not two. The open ground, the body, and the knowing of them are a single field. Sense also the clarity, the mirror-like wisdom that pervades this recognition, awareness lucidly knowing the openness of ground and body.

Depth of the Body
Allow the heart-mind to feel into the open depth of the body — vast and unbounded, like a deep ocean. From this depth, feel through the boundaries of the body until they dissolve. Recognize the body as an unbounded body, inseparable from the open ocean around it.

Recognize the warmth, spaciousness, and openness of the buddhic heart-mind — an ocean that is stable, spacious, eternal, unending. Sense how the body is open to the ocean around it: no boundary, the open ocean is the body.

Now become curious: where does the inside of this ocean end and the outside begin? Where is the boundary between the open warmth of the ocean and the heart-knowingness of that warmth? None can be found. Recognize: no inside, no outside. Non-dual feeling. The warmth of the ocean and the knowing of it are not two. Rest also in the clarity that knows this — luminous awareness suffusing the field.

Vision
Now open your eyes. Rest your gaze into the visual field. See into space as though releasing into gravity. Like a mountain resting into the earth, let your gaze rest into the vast field of openness. Notice the visual field as unbounded awareness — clear, spacious, loving.

Now, become curious: where does the outside field end and the inside field begin? Where is the boundary between the space you see outside and the spaciousness you sense inside? On the left side, look to see where the spacious field outside ends and where the spaciousness within begins. Where is the boundary between the space on the left and the space on the right? Between the space inside on the right and the space outside on the right?

Recognize there is no boundary — no inside, no outside. Non-dual vision. Allow the open spacious field of heart-knowing to pour in through the eyes, and to pour out through the eyes. Seeing and knowing as one field. Let the clarity of vision be bright and mirror-like, awareness radiant in its knowing.

Unifying the Senses
With eyes open, begin to notice the senses together. Where does seeing end and hearing begin? Search carefully: where is the boundary between vision and sound? Where does hearing end and feeling begin? Where is the line between sensing the ground, feeling its warmth, and seeing the open field?

Look for the boundaries between the senses — between touch and sound, between sight and sensation, between hearing and feeling. None can be found. Each pours into the other.

Recognize: there are no divisions. The senses interpenetrate, flowing as one unbounded sphere. All are luminous expressions of the same radiant, non-dual heart-mind. Rest in the lucid clarity that knows this unification, bright and awake.

Integration
Release into the open, unbounded sphere of awareness, resting as the radiant tender  ocean of open awareness…..knowing whatever arises, arises within this ocean of radiant tender open awareness like a wave arising within the ocean.