Guided Nondual Meditation by Michael Taft
Streamed on March 3, 2022
So the very first thing I would like you to do is simply keep in mind your intention. Why are you meditating? What are you doing right here? And let’s additionally simply set an intention for world peace, for peace on Earth and good will in direction of all beings. Not simply males, not simply even people, all beings, have peace on Earth; good will in direction of everybody. After which what I’d such as you to do is simply spend, let’s sink in proper right here to just a bit little bit of breath meditation, simply to form of get us going. So I would like you to, when you’ve taken your meditation posture, I would like you to breathe usually and naturally and start to simply comply with the physique sensations of the in-breath after which comply with the physique sensations of the out-breath. And if you wish to, you possibly can even use, like, a steady labeling that will help you stick with it. Like ‘inhaling, inhaling, inhaling’, ‘respiration out, respiration out, respiration out’. Or no matter, so that you’re simply naturally respiration and you might be staying with the breath. So let’s get going there and we’ll do this for a short while after which we’ll unpack the remainder of the guided meditation collectively.
Okay? Excellent. Now shifting alongside right here, what I would like you to do is proceed in the identical approach on the in-breath, ‘inhaling, inhaling, inhaling’. You are feeling the breath sensation within the physique. You observe all of it the best way to the underside of the in-breath. However then on the out-breath you’re simply dissolving out into area. You’re not monitoring something, you’re simply permitting the thoughts to simply dissolve. All of the ideas to dissolve, all of the feelings to dissolve, all of the sense of time and area to dissolve, all of the sense of being anyone in any respect to dissolve into huge, awake area. So, very regular in-breath meditation, simply monitoring that in-breath however on the out-breath we simply – it’s nearly like we’re blowing. You’re not actually blowing, however within the exhale it’s nearly such as you’re exhaling the thoughts out into area and simply permitting it to grow to be huge area on every out-breath, so let’s do this now.
Okay, good. Now let go of monitoring the in-breath and simply enable your self to relaxation as huge, spacious awakeness now, proper? We’re not making huge, spacious awakeness/huge, spacious consciousness be huge or be spacious or be awake or conscious; it already is all that. We’re simply not interrupting. We’re simply sitting again and permitting our nature as huge, spacious consciousness to acknowledge itself. So simply resting as huge, spacious consciousness, should you grow to be concerned in considering, simply drop that and allow them to dissolve. Don’t do something to them, simply let go. For those who discover your self getting concerned in something simply calm down, let go. Let consciousness simply come again to its pure spaciousness, its pure awakeness, its already current knowledge and readability.
Once more if you end up selecting up ideas, simply calm down and drop them. You’re not making an attempt to cease them or not making an attempt to push them away however neither are you participating with them. So if you end up engaged, simply drop and are available again to being area. For those who’ve, similar factor with feelings, if you end up wrapped up in emotion, simply let go. Come again to being area, the area you already are. You don’t want to visualise something. If you end up visualizing throughout this half, simply calm down. Come again to being area. There’s nothing to do. We’re simply coming again to our nature of area by merely enjoyable.
On this place there’s nothing to do, there’s nothing to vary, all the pieces is good. Simply relaxation into, relaxation as, huge, spacious consciousness. Already awake, completely clear, completely full. Nothing to do and no doer.
Good, now we’re going to do some visualization. So, into this area of vacancy, into this area of simply empty awakeness, huge area; it’s straightforward to venture visualization as a result of there’s nothing in the best way. And what we’re going to visualise tonight is, going to start out out with, we’re going to fake that this awake consciousness is centered on the high of our head, or type of in direction of the highest middle of your head. It’s after all not centered wherever in any respect however for now I would like you to think about that there’s a form of a ravishing white mild with possibly a tinge of – very, very mild tinge of – purple shining, radiating within the high, from the highest of the top, like a sphere of sunshine. And the sphere of sunshine is simply the middle of this whole acceptance, whole sense of loving presence. An actual deep, deep peace and full kindness and knowledge. So simply think about this whitish mild radiating like a ravishing white solar on the high of the top. And it’s radiating out full unconditional love, full kindness, deep, deep, deep sense of caring and compassion. And simply preserve visualizing that for now.
Simply think about that awake consciousness, the huge, spacious consciousness is like centered on the high of your head. Once more, it has no middle. However think about for now that there’s a middle there and it’s composed of a shining white mild that’s simply radiating out in all instructions. A superb, stunning white mild of affection and kindness and caring and compassion. Deep, deep, deep knowledge shining in all instructions.
Good. Now let’s simply enable that middle of awake consciousness to simply drop down into the middle of the top, okay? And now let’s image this as a golden yellow orb of radiating mild, radiating mild. Your physique, your bones, your muscle tissues; none of that’s in the best way. The orb of radiating yellow mild is there and this mild is the sunshine of religious knowledge. That is, in order for you, you possibly can image all of the religious lecturers of all time there. Or no matter religious lecturers, particularly the good masters of the previous. They’re all positioned there, shining this mild of knowledge, of jñana, of vidya, proper? So you possibly can both image this yellow, glowing orb by itself or you possibly can embody the presence of those tremendously highly effective religious beings who’re trying upon you with kindness and caring. Complete, whole acceptance of you simply the best way you might be, and radiating, beaming knowledge. Aiming knowledge and readability and confidence into your being. So it’s each inside you however it’s additionally radiating into you and radiating out into the world. And it’s stuffed with each being who you take into account to be, like, an woke up religious grasp; like a Buddha, like a bodhisattva. All of them taking a look at you with kindness and caring.
So you will have observed we’re doing the mandala visualization however as an alternative of inserting the mandala round us horizontally in area we’re stacking the mandala up and down the central channel, the madhyanadi.
So typically we see these religious or knowledge figures as judgmental however right here they’re completely accepting of you simply the best way you might be. Totally in your aspect, completely cheering you on, so to talk. You realize, providing you with steering that you just require. Freely providing you all of the knowledge they’ve to offer. And serving to to awaken your spirit to make clear your thoughts, to… and you may really feel the arrogance and you may really feel the competence pouring into the system and radiating out with this yellow mild throughout.
Good. Now let’s enable that faux middle of awake consciousness to drop down proper into the middle of your chest, even behind the bodily coronary heart. Deep, deep, deep in your chest on the degree of the guts. Proper within the middle, not like the guts. And I would like you to image inexperienced mild now, a inexperienced sphere of lovely, emerald inexperienced mild. A really life giving shade. The colour that makes you are feeling enthusiastic and impressed and stuffed with pleasure. And that is the place of our family members. So along with this radiating inexperienced mild of affection and belonging, that feeling of friendliness and togetherness and love and caring, I would like you to image your dearest family members. Your loved ones, your mates, your animal companions; all of the beings who’re in your life whom you’re keen on and who love you. And movie them there within the coronary heart, once more. Gazing at you. Gazing at one another with whole acceptance; acceptance, actual friendliness. Friendliness on this case is that need to simply join with others and be sort. And in addition you are feeling mudita there, the sweetness, the sense that after they’re blissful, you’re blissful, after they smile, you smile. And I would like you to simply really feel that love pouring out from the awake consciousness middle within the coronary heart and pouring again in. Filling you with love, filling you with sweetness, filling you with friendliness. So it’s each radiating out and in addition radiating in on the similar time on this inexperienced mild on the degree of the guts.
Sustain the visualization and feeling the feelings. Don’t get misplaced in thought. Simply preserve feeling the friendliness, the sweetness, the love, the caring, the belonging, the acceptance; visualizing that radiating out and pouring again in repeatedly.
Good. Now once more let’s enable the obvious or imaginary middle of awake consciousness to drop down into the photo voltaic plexus area. This isn’t the stomach, the decrease dantian under the abdomen, that is above. You’ll be able to actually really feel like a photo voltaic, the photo voltaic plexus vitality. I would like you to see this very shiny, very sharp, very fiery crimson mild there. Vivid crimson mild. Extremely important, extremely sturdy and in a approach it’s sharp. You’ll be able to even, although it’s this radiating crimson mild from a sphere, it has a pointiness or a sharpness. And that is the vitality of safety. That is the vitality maintaining us and others secure. That is each us maintaining others secure and others maintaining us secure, and even religious beings maintaining us secure. So with this crimson, fiery, pointy, fierce, intense crimson mild; image any beings there that you just consider as protectors. Protectors for you, protectors of the world. The world wants protectors actually unhealthy proper now. Think about the beings, they could even be the identical because the religious beings, they could even be the identical because the love beings. They don’t should be completely different. However the beings who’re fiercely defending the earth, fiercely defending you, fiercely defending different folks, fiercely defending all of the beings of this earth and of this universe and who’re intensely conscious of the preciousness of every being and the dignity of every being and the the Aristocracy of every being and are devoted to preserving and defending them. So really feel that actually fiery, actually highly effective, actually stunning, sort, protecting vitality; the fierce, protecting vitality on this photo voltaic plexus space now.
Okay, excellent. And now from there let’s drop down once more. Drop down, drop down all the best way to the perineum, proper? So to the very base of your torso. And right here I would like you to image deep blue, good deep blue, nearly indigo mild radiating out. Radiating out in all instructions from this middle of awake consciousness, all the best way down within the perineum. Really feel it glowing. Really feel it shining. This tremendously stabilizing, grounding, deep blue mild. That is the realm of help. That is the vitality of useful resource and resilience and help. That is the help of all of the ancestors. That is the help of the bodily world round us and the help of the physique. Really feel this extremely structured, patterned, predictable and delightful, soothing blue mild radiating out and in addition pouring again in, on the base of the physique. Really feel the help, really feel the groundedness. Really feel the sanity and humility and stability. Really feel the gravity and the earth itself.
Okay? Good. Now, what I would like you to do is on the in-breath, I would like you to image the breath coming in via the highest of your head, via that white mild. Shifting into the middle of your head with the yellow mild, coming down the middle of your backbone into the guts with the inexperienced mild. Into the stomach with the crimson mild and into the perineum with the blue mild. After which on the out-breath it’s going the opposite approach, in via the perineum, up the backbone, via every of the facilities; blue then crimson, then inexperienced then yellow, then white and out the highest of your head.
Okay? So it’s a humorous visualization. Power coming within the high of the top, shifting via every of those facilities. Re-each of the facilities, persevering with to radiate and feeling that vitality. After which in via the underside of the backbone, arising, up, up, up via the backbone and out the highest of the top, okay? Proceed with that visualization now and actually really feel the vitality at every location. Don’t pause, don’t hit your breath however simply frivolously really feel the heartbeat of every of these spheres of vitality, because the breath goes up and out after which again in and down.
Persevering with on that in-breath, the air goes via the highest of the top all the best way right down to the underside of the backbone after which now all the best way right down to the middle of the earth. After which that out-breath comes from the middle of the earth, all the best way again out via the highest of the top and out to the cosmos. So the in-breath really comes from the whole cosmos, down via the highest of the top, all the best way right down to the middle of the earth. Really feel the middle of the earth. After which the out-breath from the middle of the earth, swooping up all the best way again up into the cosmos.
Okay? Good. Now let go of that and simply enable the white mild and the yellow mild to come back down into the inexperienced mild on the coronary heart and collect there. So that each one three are shining now rather more brightly, rather more intensely. And permit the blue mild and the crimson mild to come back up and collect within the coronary heart, now shining rather more intently. And all these lights collectively, after all, make white mild once more. So this was an excellent, stunning, tremendously loving, tremendously sensible, caring, compassionate mild. Shining within the coronary heart; mild of consciousness, mild of knowledge, mild of compassion, mild of affection, mild of whole acceptance, mild of peace and kindness, shining within the coronary heart. Really feel that very clearly. Shining within the coronary heart, radiating out in all instructions and pouring again in from all instructions too. Let this radiant love contact all beings in all places. Let this peace contact all beings in all places. Let this kindness contact all beings in all places. Let this knowledge contact all beings in all places.
Good. Now let go of all of the visualization and simply come again to resting as open, empty, spacious, clear awakeness. Awakeness that has at all times been there, that at all times is there. Complete readability and kindness that at all times is behind each expertise. This huge, spacious consciousness; simply relaxation there. No pictures in any respect, no doing in any respect. If any doing comes up, simply let go, let go, let go. Merely relaxation because the huge, spacious consciousness you’ve at all times been.
Okay? Good. Very, excellent. All proper everyone let’s finish the meditation there.
Dharma Discuss
And you’ll enable your self to maneuver and shake and wiggle and stretch. And simply enable your physique to do what it must do to really feel good. Permit your self a pleasant glass of water or some tea, or no matter fits you in the mean time. And simply discover how you are feeling, how you are feeling after doing this, we’ll name it a central channel visualization; the madhyanadi, the central channel visualization. We had been stacking the visualization that we usually do as a mandala. Once more, usually the mandala is round us in area, right here it was stacked up the central channel. It’s one other approach to do it and a really highly effective approach to do it.
I wish to remind you that, , awake consciousness, consciousness itself has no middle. It’s not coming from wherever. It already is in all places. It’s non-local, it has no middle and it has no edge. It has no circumference, it has no boundary. So once we’re doing the visualization that it’s coming from the top, or that it’s within the middle of our head or that it’s on high of the top or in our coronary heart, or no matter. I used to be fairly cautious to say a pair instances at the least that it’s fake or that it’s an imaginary middle. However I simply wish to re-emphasize that – that we’re picturing it as having a middle however it doesn’t actually have any middle. Or to place it in one other approach that’s equally true, let’s imagine it’s centered in all places and so in all places is the middle. That’s why we are able to visualize like that and have or not it’s highly effective.
You discover earlier than we began we did a form of, we did awake consciousness or huge, spacious consciousness; vacancy meditation, proper? Simply dropping all the pieces. Simply letting all the pieces be. Simply letting awake consciousness, letting consciousness relaxation in itself. After which we did our entire visualization after which on the finish we got here again to simply permitting consciousness to relaxation in itself with no visualization in any respect. And in order that’s how we do this. We form of like, it’s nearly like metaphorically we’re simply erasing the blackboard, ? I don’t find out about you however I went to high school when there have been actual blackboards that wrote with an precise chalk and we had these kinda fabric erasers, eraser blocks. And so earlier than you’re going to jot down one thing on the board you simply erase all the pieces that’s there and form of return to that clean slate, the tabula rasa. And in a approach consciousness itself is the final word tabula rasa. It’s form of the primordial, uncreated supply of all creations. So we return to that earlier than we start, proper? I had you do some stabilizing breath meditation first. However then we go into huge, spacious consciousness and basically wipe the blackboard clear, we erase the blackboard. And that offers us a ravishing palette, or what’s the proper phrase? The canvas, a ravishing canvas upon which to – now I’m going to vary from the blackboard metaphor as a result of we’re utilizing colours. A stupendous canvas upon which to color our visualization of those varied energies.
So in case you wish to go over that once more, we had been doing first—vitality of simply unconditional kindness, unconditional caring, love and so forth. And that’s simply consciousness itself. That was the white mild on the high of the top.
Then within the head it was gold and yellow mild. And that was the knowledge, particularly the knowledge vitality of all of the religious lecturers.
After which we went to the guts which was inexperienced vitality. Inexperienced vitality of affection, of friendship, of group, of connectedness. In order that was the inexperienced.
After which we went right down to the photo voltaic plexus, form of the higher stomach. That actual radiant, intense, crimson protecting vitality. A lot of folks report that after they do the mandala visualization, or on this case the central channel, one of many central channel visualizations, that crimson vitality looks like the one which’s probably the most lacking or the toughest to get in contact with. And the concept there’s – a part of the kindness, a part of the caring that we’re discussing is taking care; caring for different beings like simply how you’d shield a tiny animal otherwise you would shield a bit of child, or no matter. That form of fierce safety, “hey I’m not gonna let anyone hurt this being.” Nicely, in the identical approach we now have religious protectors who really feel that approach about us. We have now energetic or, or imaginary, archetypal protectors who really feel that approach about all beings or the entire earth or the entire universe. That form of like, “hey, we’re going to maintain this factor and we’re going to really use our vitality to guard it.” In order that’s that crimson protecting vitality and if that feels weak for you or it was exhausting to get in contact with then, that’s telling you one thing, proper? That’s, and in reality this entire approach of visualizing may be considered form of a, too sturdy a phrase is prognosis, however it simply form of reveals you the place possibly issues are a bit of weak. And so should you, like many individuals, weren’t capable of tune into that protecting vitality so simply or it was not as out there, then I would like you to spend further time serious about what symbolizes safety; like ‘fierce, mama bear safety of the cubs’ form of vitality for you. And to have the ability to image that and to really feel that, okay?
After which taking place all the best way to the perineum, all the best way to the bottom of the backbone. All the best way to the form of like, fundament of the physique. We have now that blue vitality and that’s the vitality of the muse, the groundedness. The form of physicality of our being itself. It’s a beautiful indigo blue; deep, deep, blue mild. And you are feeling that form of structuring precept, the patterning precept, we even really feel the ancestors. So there’s an entire reference to dying there. And that one goes all the best way down. We may consider it as going all the best way down into the core of the earth. Identical to we are able to image the higher one, the form of like, formless knowledge one, increasing out to contact the whole universe.
And so you possibly can consider this visualization nevertheless you need. It may be form of a Jungian psychological, a Jungian-esque psychological device. Or , relying by yourself private approach of referring to issues, you possibly can consider these as actual energies and actual delicate beings and with Buddhas and bodhisattvas and varied deities concerned. So it’s, you possibly can take it nevertheless you wish to take it. However you’ll discover after doing the visualization that you just really feel extra centered, extra alive. Issues are extra vibrant, extra 3D. And in addition there’s a form of readability and your coronary heart is open. It’s very, very, essential. Once more, I mentioned this throughout the meditation, however if you’re picturing these knowledge beings, no matter, whoever they could be. I don’t need you to ever consider them as being judgmental or like ‘oh, you’re a sinner or oh, you’re doing it unsuitable, or no matter’. They’re by no means like that. That’s, that isn’t the vitality of a knowledge being. The vitality is – they’re in your aspect. They actually love you and care about you they usually wish to allow you to to develop in a extremely optimistic approach. They actually simply need the very best for you. They need you, they need you to develop they usually need the very best for everybody else, too. So it’s not like a zero-sum sport. It’s not like, ‘oh, they need you to develop on the expense of the remainder of the world’. They need you to develop along with all different beings. So these are the form of energies that I would like you to image. When, particularly for the knowledge beings, the religious beings, the guides within the yellow mild within the head – we may have put it proper within the third eye if we needed to – a approach to image them is admittedly in your aspect. Not in some way judging you or discovering you falling quick, okay? In order that’s a bit of bit about that, a bit of bit about this visualization. Let me know the way that went for you.
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