Guided Nondual Meditation by Michael W. Taft
Streamed dwell on Dec 30, 2021
Okay. So let’s start our meditation. Now as regular what I’d such as you to do is take your
meditation posture and tonight I’ll simply say, as an alternative of going into all the main points, I’ll simply say; sit up good and straight in a approach that feels actually comfy and let the remainder of your complete physique calm down. Okay. Simply sit up good and straight when you can. Don’t lean your again on the again of a chair however simply sit up permitting your again to carry itself up in a approach that feels very nice and permit the entire remainder of your complete physique to easily calm down.
We’re going to do some prolonged leisure sort stuff tonight completely different than regular, slightly bit completely different anyway. And as an alternative of claiming, “what I would love you to do–if you wish to–it’s okay to do that leisure half mendacity in your again,” it’s finest when you do this together with your knees elevated or a pillow beneath your knees in order that your decrease again is flat on the ground. Nonetheless you do it, you can even do it in shavasana, you realize corpse pose from yoga or no matter. However we wish to actually kick off this closing meditation of the 12 months. We wish individuals to get very, very, very relaxed. And keep in mind the opposite facet of this, moreover the relief, is staying actual alert. So despite the fact that you’re getting actual relaxed I don’t need you to get foggy or sleepy. So when you get foggy or sleepy, open your eyes and even meditate standing up as a result of it’s crucial that you just don’t go right into a dream or get drowsy. Regardless of how relaxed we get we wish to keep an actual alert.
Okay. Now that you’re in no matter posture you’re going to take, let’s set our intention and likewise join in with our useful resource. However tonight we’re going to combine connecting with the useful resource to the relief we’re doing. Okay, so we’re going to try this half collectively. So let’s simply begin with the intention the place you keep in mind why you’re meditating, what’s the purpose, why are you doing this in any respect. You may wish to say, “hey, I wish to join with my very own innermost knowledge and compassion and assist to make the world a kinder place,” one thing like that. Who is aware of, however that may be one among your motivations a few of your intention on your meditation. So I’ll simply be silent for a second whilst you join in together with your motivation for meditating, no matter that’s.
Okay. Good. Now what we’re gonna do is; I need you to deliver up a visualization, like we do fairly often in right here, and that is a part of our useful resource constructing, we visualize issues which can be highly effective, useful, transformative issues that assist us in essence get into the appropriate headspace to do the meditation. Tonight what I’d such as you to visualise–like we do visualize typically–is a wonderful solar, proper? Just like the solar within the sky. And I need you to visualise this solar in entrance of you, and it’s very heat in a pleasing approach, not too scorching very, very nice and likewise extraordinarily lovely, the colour gold of the sunshine is sort of a ghee candle, when you’ve ever seen the flame of a ghee lamp, not a candle, it’s a ghee lamp, it burns butter, proper? And clarified butter, which is ghee, the colour of that flame is that this very, very beautiful golden hue. And so this solar in entrance of us, this three-dimensional spherical sensible solar has this very, very lovely mushy golden hue. Okay, so image that now in entrance of you very, very clearly.
And as regular this solar represents our personal deepest Buddha nature, the truth that we’re all already enlightened bodhisattvas and so we’re going to tackle among the properties however we’re going to actually dwell on explicit properties. So we’re going to do that in a distinct order than regular, okay? So I need you to first see a ray of sunshine, a wonderful ray of sunshine coming from this golden solar and hitting you within the decrease stomach, proper? This hara area of your decrease stomach, the decrease dantian. It’s like an vitality spot you possibly can really feel. It’s like a pair inches beneath your navel and it’s a pair inches inside. It’s very easy to note when you get the sense of–there’s a spot in there that simply looks like a nexus or one thing. And so the vitality coming from the solar this lovely golden vitality is pouring into the decrease stomach and it’s filling you with a way of liveliness, a way of awakeness, a way of play and spontaneity, however primarily simply well being, and power, and vigor, proper? It’s actually vigorous, that is the liveliness spot and so that you’re feeling that vitality pouring into your physique, pouring into your physique making you’re feeling energized, awake, wholesome, genki, proper? Prepared for something, bushy-tailed, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed is what this spot does. Okay, so really feel that now, take that in and actually discover that on the in-breath that vitality will get even stronger and on the out-breath it type of suffuses via your physique.
Good. Now whereas that continues to occur, that beam of that ray of sunshine from the solar retains pouring into your decrease stomach, one other beam comes into your brow and you’re feeling this ray of sunshine bringing knowledge, and readability, and confidence, proper? It’s bringing knowledge, and readability, and confidence and you’re feeling this very strongly, very deeply. It’s fairly clear. It’s fairly clear, you possibly can see that tremendously clearly, and you’re feeling the knowledge, you’re feeling the boldness. And once more the entire subject of the thoughts brightens, and clarifies, proper? So your deepest, wisest, most clever thoughts comes ahead beaming from the solar, the solar of our personal already present enlightened knowledge. And once more we’re feeling that are available in on the in-breath after which suffuse via the entire physique the entire being on the out-breath.
Good. Now that is the half we’re going to actually deal with tonight; a 3rd ray of sunshine comes, the opposite two are nonetheless going, however a 3rd ray of sunshine comes into your coronary heart and it touches you in essentially the most delicate, personal, deepest a part of your coronary heart, proper? The center of hearts as we typically say, proper? In your coronary heart of hearts. And you actually really feel that ray of sunshine from the solar touching you deeply. It’s not hitting the entrance of your chest in an armored approach and also you’re type of guarding towards it, no, you’re huge, huge, huge open and the ray of sunshine comes into your chest and begins to fill your coronary heart with kindness, and caring, and compassion, and love and you’re feeling very deeply that this solar of enlightened knowledge in entrance of you is beaming a type of full unconditional acceptance to you, proper? It loves you. It needs the most effective for you. It sees your highest qualities, your finest qualities, your highest aspirations. It sees solely the most effective in you, solely the great in you. And it’s actually the sunshine from this ray–it’s actually highlighting all the easiest issues inside you. And you actually really feel that love and that acceptance and it’s permitting you to type of glow with a sense of being cherished, and being cared for, and being accepted, and being mothered.
On the in-breath you’re feeling your self taking extra of that in. That is like excellent mothering, proper? It’s not like, no matter–regardless of how good our human mom has been, they’ll all the time have their flaws. However that is excellent mothering. That is Buddha mothering the whole lot good, the whole lot unconditional, the whole lot nearly kindness, nearly caring, nearly safety, nearly wanting the most effective for you and seeing who you actually are, seeing what you really want and simply filling you up with that sense of being seen, and cared for, and cherished and on every out-breath that simply suffuses your complete being, not solely your complete physique however your complete thoughts, and your complete being, proper? You actually really feel that sense of being tremendously cared for, tremendously seen, completely understood. So really feel that now.
Okay. Good. Now persevering with to permit these three beams of sunshine to come back into your physique, into your thoughts, into your being. Let’s start doing our shamatha with an object. We’re going to be meditating on leisure so we’re not–normally we meditate on respiration whereas permitting the physique to calm down–tonight we’re going to meditate on the relief itself and the respiration is a part of it however our essential focus is the relief.
Okay, so what I need you to note right here is that the three beams now converge into one beam, only a beam from the solar of enlightened knowledge that’s nonetheless shining in entrance of you. And this beam of gold and yellow mild into the guts and that incorporates all of the knowledge stuff from the thoughts and all of the therapeutic vitality stuff from the stomach, but it surely’s primarily the love, and the kindness, and the caring within the coronary heart. And so it’s one large beam into the guts. Okay and this beam now could be–as a result of it feels so good to really feel so cared for, you can begin to calm down.
And so I need you to permit this radiant mild that’s glowing in your coronary heart now to start to fill your face and head. So the muscle mass of the brow calm down, and the eyes calm down, and really feel them suffusing with this vitality of being cared for, vitality of kindness, vitality of affection, vitality of being understood. Your cheeks, your lips, your chin, your tongue, your scalp, the entire head–even on the within–your complete mind, your complete nasal passages, the whole lot within the head is suffusing with this golden yellow mild of being cherished, and being cared for and it’s similar to inflicting the whole lot within the head to calm down, and to let go, and to really feel ease, and peace.
And I need you to not deal with the issues that aren’t letting go, deal with the issues which can be letting go, issues that do really feel good, the issues that really feel nice, that really feel relaxed. And the stress simply drains away extra, and extra, and extra, and extra, and extra as you discover clearly that areas of the face and head are feeling extra mild, extra relaxed, extra open, extra comfy, and likewise extra awake. And on the in-breath you’re feeling extra of that golden yellow mild filling the pinnacle and inflicting peace, and ease, and openness, and acceptance, and kindness, and like to fill your complete face and head. After which on the on the out-breath, you’re feeling that rising stronger, proper? On the out-breath the relief, the aid, the openness, the kindness, the love grows even stronger. So let’s simply do this with the pinnacle now for a second or two.
Good. Now let’s think about this mild coming from the solar in entrance of us, the solar of enlightened knowledge beaming into our hearts. And now it’s radiating up and never solely filling the pinnacle but it surely’s filling the neck, and the throat, and the shoulders, that complete collar area in entrance and in again, and even all the best way inside. And all the stress there simply melts like wax melting in a candle, and all of it simply drains away, it drains out. And as an alternative, the neck, and throat, and the shoulders fill with this scrumptious glowing mild of kindness, and caring, and love, and being accepted, and being understood, and being fully seen. And so all the stress within the throat, all the stress within the neck, all the stress within the shoulders simply relaxes and drains away. And on the in-breath you’re feeling you possibly can even visualize an increasing number of of this gold and yellow mild filling the neck, filling the throat, filling the shoulders all the best way inside. And the whole lot stress-free an increasing number of deeply. After which on the out-breath, it lets go much more fully.
With every out-breath it relaxes extra completely, it relaxes extra totally, it relaxes extra fully in order that not solely your face and head however now your throat and neck and shoulder area is glowing and releasing within the mild of this large kindness, love, caring and nurturing.
Good. Now on the following in-breath the sunshine begins to fill the arms, and fingers, and fingers. They’re stuffed, they turn into yellow radiant daylight. They’re glowing with a radiant peace. All the stress drains away. They turn into limp like moist noodles and so they fill with golden mild and all the stress drains away and so they start to really feel leisure. All of the knots in your arms, all of the tightness within the wrists and the fingers, all that simply drains away. And as an alternative, your arms and fingers and fingers really feel that very touching presence of kindness, of caring, of being seen in a constructive mild, being nurtured, being cared for. You actually really feel that mothering vitality simply loving up your face, your head, your neck and throat, your shoulders, your arms and your fingers. And on the in-breath, much more mild is available in, and you’re feeling extra leisure spreading via the physique, and on the out-breath it will get even stronger in a really nice approach.
This solar of our personal enlightened knowledge is simply beaming this vitality into the guts after which the vitality suffusing the physique, this vitality of affection, this vitality of kindness, this vitality of leisure, and launch, and letting go. Identical to you’re a child within the arms of this bodhisattva mommy, this Buddha mommy, who’s holding you and caring for you as deeply and fully and completely because it’s doable to be cared for. So simply let go into that now and see the way it’s doable to only merely drop now right into a a lot deeper place, a a lot deeper leisure, a extra complete letting go, layers of letting go, deeper, proper? Once you simply open up.
And the beam from that radiant solar of knowledge and love comes extra fully into your coronary heart. After which on the following in-breath you discover your complete chest area, your complete higher again, even your stomach, and your decrease again area, the entire trunk and torso is suffused with this radiant mild, this golden mild of affection and kindness, and all the stress drains away. And you’re feeling, on the out-breath, this type of large letting go of rigidity within the physique. You are feeling an incredible sense of affection filling your coronary heart. It’s variety love, it’s actually candy, it’s actually caring, it actually sees you, it actually understands you, it actually needs solely the most effective for you, and it’s nurturing each little neatest thing about you in each doable approach and the whole lot else simply drains away. And you’re feeling the entire trunk of your physique simply releasing and opening, and releasing and opening, and releasing and opening, experiencing a type of mom Buddha love that you just’ve by no means skilled in your complete life earlier than, it’s deeper, and purer, and extra complete, and it permits your complete torso, your arms and fingers, your neck, your higher physique, the entire higher physique and the pinnacle to only launch and open, and be crammed with this radiant mild of affection and kindness, to be crammed with this golden glow of well being and pleasure and compassion.
And once more it’s so candy, and so actual, and deep, and type, and open that it permits you to simply drop much more deeply now, to only drop now into like a really, very open place the place you’re simply nearly like merely a ray, a physique of golden mild and an increasing number of of this golden daylight fills your complete pelvic area, and your legs, and your toes, and your toes. And you’re feeling all rigidity, all tightness, all discomfort draining out of your legs and toes and toes. And on the in-breath much more daylight of golden love comes into your legs and toes and toes and on the out-breath they turn into an increasing number of suffused with this kindness, infused with love, infused with caring, infused with a way the physique is accepted precisely as it’s. The complete physique is accepted precisely as it’s. The complete emotional physique is accepted precisely as it’s. The complete thoughts is accepted and cherished precisely as it’s. The entire, your complete being is cherished and accepted and cared for and even cherished, totally cherished precisely as it’s.
And the impression of feeling a lot caring, and a lot connectedness, and a lot understanding and a lot kindness simply modifications your complete being, your complete physique, your thoughts, your feelings, the whole lot right into a physique of radiant golden mild. And on the in-breath extra golden mild fills the physique after which the out-breath it grows even stronger and you’re feeling any final vestiges of rigidity simply draining out of the physique and the entire physique feels prefer it’s made of sunshine. It feels good. It feels energized. It feels relaxed. It looks like the whole lot is simply excellent within the physique, simply that fantastic feeling of the whole lot being good, and cherished, cared for, variety.
And as you replenish your fuel tank of affection and kindness and caring, you start to note that your physique of radiant golden mild is beginning to glow even brighter, beginning to glow even brighter, and on the in-breath it takes in additional mild, after which on the out-breath it glows brighter, after which on the in-breath it takes in much more mild from the solar of radiant knowledge in entrance of you, after which within the out breath it glows even brighter. And now, on the following in-breath, the solar of the radiant knowledge in entrance of us really enters us, it is available in and fills our complete physique in order that our radiant physique of golden mild and this radiant solar of golden mild are only one golden mild. So let’s simply breathe with that now for some time collectively, letting this radiant mild fill our physique after which really radiate out farther from us. Now feeling that love, basking in that kindness, steeping within the caring and loving.
Okay. Good. Now what I need you to do is discover that this radiant physique of golden mild centered within the coronary heart is simply effortlessly glowing and spreading this sense of Buddha mom love, kindness, caring, connection out in all instructions. Okay, and I need you to start to radiate this love and kindness in the direction of–we’re going to start with the individuals proper round us, the individuals in your life closest to you, the people who find themselves your family members, your loved ones, the animals who’re your family members and household, people who find themselves in your internal circle. And I need you to only image this radiant golden sweetness and kindness beaming out from you in all instructions and individually see every individual and/or animal or no matter type of being they’re, see them touched by this golden mild of Buddha love, mom Buddha love, kindness and caring and it makes them tremendously pleased. See their faces pleased or their tails wagging or no matter. See them as radiant, joyous, wholesome, pleased, crammed with peace and pleasure.
Okay, so this radiant love of the Buddha coronary heart inside you, the mom Buddha kindness love coronary heart inside you–see it affecting all of the individuals round you and simply maintain feeling it in your self. Don’t let this get fraught or tough in any approach, simply see it as simply pure you, simply need the most effective for them. You simply need them to be pleased and wholesome. You simply wish to assist them to thrive. Something that makes them joyous, that’s wholesome and pleased, makes you joyous. After which the enjoyment of that radiant love and kindness simply grows and grows, so see all of the family members round you individually turning into totally impacted, totally cherished by this radiant mild now. Now this radiant scrumptious golden mild of affection and kindness and caring is so overjoyed at our family members additionally feeling pleasure, feeling love, feeling caring and seeing them pleased, seeing/excited about them doing nicely, that we glow even brighter much more golden much more loving much more fully caring and type, wanting what’s finest for everybody, wanting what’s finest for every being on the earth, seeing them doing their finest and rejoicing in that. And truly taking motion to deal with them, to assist them to do even higher.
In order that our complete physique now just isn’t physique formed. It’s like a sphere or a globe of yellow mild centered on the guts, tremendously massive and now we’re the solar of yellow mild, proper? We’re the solar of this mom Buddha love. And let the solar radiate out now to your complete neighborhood, everybody in your quick neighborhood, all of the animals, all of the beings in your neighborhood. Simply image even all of the vegetation, even all of the bugs, the whole lot, even the water, and the air, the whole lot turns into more healthy, happier. The radiant kindness of your mom Buddha love fills them with pleasure, fills them with a way of being seen, fills them with a way of kindness and caring, fills them with a way that they’re appreciated for being simply precisely who and what they’re. Simply permit this mild of your coronary heart, this mild of the solar, this golden mild of caring and kindness simply radiate much more brightly, much more powerfully, much more fantastically. And permit it to only soften your thoughts, permit it to only soften any confusion, any battle within the thoughts.
And your complete thoughts simply additionally turns to radiant mild so that every one that’s filling the thoughts is pictures of beings turning into pleased and wholesome crammed with peace and love and simply stuffed as much as the brim with this sense of nurturing and kindness and caring.
Okay. Good, and now we’re going to go actually huge. I need you to note that this sense of affection and kindness and pleasure and feeling cared for that you just’re bathing in and likewise radiating out now spreads to embody the entire world. So each human on the earth, each animal on the earth, each being on the earth, even vegetation and bushes, even the air and water, even the earth, even the sky, permit this radiant love, this kindness, this caring, the sense of actually seeing how tremendously indescribably priceless every being is, how indescribably valuable every being is and radiating out the sense of caring for them, loving them, actually seeing them for who they are surely and permitting the entire world to only bask on this radiant kindness of Buddha love. And keep in mind you’re a being on the earth too so that you’re persevering with to only open an increasing number of deeply, to be suffused with this love, and your thoughts is simply melted, it’s simply completely melted into radiant glowing yellow mild of compassion and kindness and caring.
Good. And now let this loving kindness and caring and exquisite golden mild unfold out to fill your complete universe and all universes in every single place, bringing kindness caring love compassion to all beings in every single place.
Good. Now discover that within the mild of this mom Buddha love there’s no boundary anyplace, proper? This radiant mild of mom Buddha love pervades all house. Nothing can block it. It radiates in every single place. After which additionally discover that this radiant golden mild of Buddha love, Buddha compassion, Buddha caring has been right here since beginningless time and might be right here without end. It didn’t begin anyplace. It’ll by no means finish. It’s merely eternally current and current in every single place.
Good. After which discover that this mild of Buddha kindness is current in every single place and due to this fact doesn’t actually have a middle, despite the fact that it felt prefer it’s radiating from our coronary heart, it’s really situated in every single place and radiating via your complete universe and so it doesn’t actually actually have a middle, or lets say in every single place together with our coronary heart is the middle.
Good. And see that your thoughts is melted and opened into golden mild. All ideas, all imaginings, all feelings, all sense of character, even the sense of doing something is simply dissolved into golden mild. And this golden mild could be very mushy, very mild and see that this golden mild is current in every single place and on the identical time a single level of it’s glowing extremely brightly within the middle of your being, a single level of sunshine glowing in an enormous house of consciousness. This mild is pristine, this mild is ideal, this mild is gorgeous, it’s variety, it’s loving, it’s caring, it’s smart, it’s clear, it’s crammed with life, it’s crammed with vitality, it’s crammed with playfulness and spontaneity.
Simply be with that mild now, be that mild now. And now noticing that even that mild itself is in some methods empty and but there. Identical to ideas and emotions are empty however there. Persona, the physique, it’s empty however there. Time and house, the world round you, individuals, beings empty however there. There’s an actual sense of connectedness with the whole lot. No boundary between ourselves and the rest, an actual sense of the the Aristocracy and dignity of each being, nearly indescribable preciousness of each being and even of the world itself, of water, air, sky, of mountains and bushes, of the land. Actually really feel that now and on the identical time really feel its dreamlike high quality, its large ephemerality as we deliver this closing meditation of the 12 months to an in depth.
Let’s simply spend a second dedicating ourselves to appreciating our life, appreciating all the opposite beings in our life, appreciating the world, the very fact that there’s a world to be in. Appreciating all of the beings, appreciating all that we’ve and actually feeling that now. After which we are able to deliver the meditation to an in depth very gently, nonetheless feeling relaxed, nonetheless feeling open, feeling suffused with love and kindness and caring and permitting your physique to maneuver and stretch and really feel good. The physique likes to maneuver. Permit the physique to maneuver. Perhaps have a drink of water.
Dharma Speak
And so what I’d love to do tonight is as an alternative of—the meditation was its personal educating—as an alternative of simply repeating the whole lot I mentioned within the meditation or having you ask questions, as an alternative what I’d love to do tonight is have everybody who’s nonetheless with us, all 32 of you on this expertise tonight I’d such as you within the chat window to bless everybody, simply discuss your love and your kindness and caring for everybody on the earth. So every individual as a result of if we might do it and go round separately in a room we might say please you realize converse of your love and your pleasure and your blessing for the world however as an alternative I’d similar to you to sort it within the chat window every one among you. After which we’ll all simply learn these collectively. Okay so please go forward. And it doesn’t must be lengthy. It simply needs to be heartfelt. This isn’t about being articulate or being poetic it’s merely about talking from the guts, talking fact from the guts and when you’re watching this video doing this guided meditation later, even years later please within the remark window make a remark about kindness and caring for different beings, all the opposite beings within the meditation, all the opposite beings on the earth, the world itself. Simply share with us some heartfelt blessing now.
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