Opening Meditation — Planetary Dharma

1 Opening the Heart Mind: 3 minutes

2 Entering the Circle: 3 minutes

Entering the circle, taking sanctuary in it.
Opening the width of your heart and mind into this network of goodness, both giving and receiving support.
Recognizing that the circle is part of a larger field of circles within circles.
Sensing the influence of our elders.

3 Grounding and Releasing: 3 minutes

Directing your awareness to the ground beneath you.
Feeling the heart networked into the circle, then releasing into the stability of the ground.
Releasing into the qualities of stability, dependability, and trust.

4 Attuning and Presence: 3 minutes

Sensing the field of attunement all around.
Allowing yourself to feel “felt”.
Becoming a good parent to yourself, actively attuning to the subtlest reactivity within.
Holding and caring for yourself, attuning to the interconnected field of all beings.
Adding just the right amount of fire, self-strength, and power. Staying present—heart open, networked, grounded, attuned, and present.

6 Increasing the Power of the Connoisseur: 2 minutes

Knowing your heart as a radiant sun, allowing your energy to build through the power of love, the power of self, and the power of enjoyment.
Intensify your heartmind to passionately enjoy being here.

7 Compassionate Exchange: 10 minutes

Coming back to the awareness of our circle. Coming to the movement of our breathing. Breathing from our hearts. Breathing through all the pores of our body. Allowing the heart to receive, allowing the heart to give.
Starting with ourselves (5 minutes). Breathing in your [fill in here]……..Breathing out [fill in here]…... .Breathing in your [fill in here]….. Breathing out [fill in here]s…. Breathing in your [fill in here]……Breathing out [fill in here]
Now expanding to our circle (5 minutes), Breathing in your [fill in here]……..Breathing out [fill in here]…... .Breathing in your [fill in here]….. Breathing out [fill in here]s…. Breathing in your [fill in here]……Breathing out [fill in here]

5 Affirming the Ocean: 5 minutes

Resting into the openness of the heartmind. Listening to its silence. Does silence have any boundary? Affirm the unbounded silence. Resting like the sky.
Resting in the openness of the heartmind. Sense its stability as the open ground beneath. Does the ground have any boundary? Affirming the unbounded open ground. Resting like a mountain.
Resting in the openness of the heart mind. Feeling into the warm depths of the body. Noticing that the warm body’s depth is completely open like an infinitely deep warm ocean. As an infinitely deep warm ocean, how wide and open are the boundaries of the body? Affirming the unbounded open body. Resting like an ocean.
Can you find any boundary between the open silent sky and the unbounded ground? Can you find any boundary between the unbounded ground and the open ocean?
No boundaries. Just opening heartmind. Always already right here.
Relaxing by just letting go. Aware of the moment-by-moment release into the ground. Continuously releasing into the stability. Trusting that there is nothing to achieve, nothing to know, nothing needs to happen other than this. There is nothing that can obscure the realization that everything is an open unfolding expression of the heartmind.
The essence of this path is to rest in the basis of all experience. Just resting into the open ground of experience. The unbounded, open basis of experience. Completely whole. Innocent. Like a child.

8 Closing