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Meditation
Let’s start, as we all the time do, with checking in with what it’s wish to be you proper now. Simply go inside, and simply really feel the way you’re doing, how’s your physique feeling? How’s your feelings doing? What’s your thought realm like? and so forth. Tune in, and see, what it’s wish to be you proper now? The trick right here is to each be as clear and sincere as attainable, whereas on the similar time simply letting or not it’s that means. Nevertheless it’s, is simply how it’s. So, for now, simply tune in and see what that’s like.
Good. Discover the urge to vary it, the urge to regulate it, the urge to disclaim, the urge to attempt to hold on to it, perhaps the urge to, not directly, management management management, and see in case you can, even when that urge is there, simply not take any motion. As an alternative, enable no matter you’re feeling wish to be that means. Letting go, if just for a short time, of the elemental aggression in opposition to the way in which it’s.
Good. Now let’s do some mild breath work, just by on the in-breath, respiratory naturally, however on the in-breath, feeling the sense of awakeness and readability and power coming into the stomach. Really feel power coming into the stomach, filling the stomach as you breathe, brightness, openness, readability. Then, on the out-breath, it radiates by means of the entire physique and out into area, in order that there’s a sort of letting go into area on the out-breath. You’re constructing power and readability on the in-breath, feeling that within the stomach, after which on the out-breath it radiates out into spaciousness. Every in-breath bringing far more brightness and readability awakeness to expertise, and every out-breath that simply dissolves into area, bringing large openness, rest, launch, boundlessness. You may simply breathe naturally, however if you wish to make it slightly extra highly effective, simply let that out-breath go on for slightly longer than you usually would, after all remaining comfy and with out pressure. With every out-breath, as you dissolve into area, noticing that any rigidity within the face relaxes, tightness and gripping within the shoulders releases, the stomach turns into mushy and open. The entire physique simply sinks now into a way more grounded and relaxed place.
Persevering with to really feel the power and spaciousness rising, and, for a few of you, you might discover on the finish of that lengthy out-breath, it simply stays there for some time with out you intending for it to remain there. It can typically simply sort of hold there earlier than starting the in-breath, and spot on the out-breath, as you dissolve into area, any reference to the thoughts with pondering, with making an attempt to do one thing, simply is totally launched. The thoughts itself simply dissolves into area simply utterly let’s go. In order that even when loads of pondering is occurring, we’re not partaking in any respect with thought. We’re being the huge open area, an enormous clear vibrant awakeness. Discover that that huge awakeness is there with out you doing something in any respect. It’s not in some way one thing you can also make occur or intrude with, it’s simply conscious of its personal accord and its personal power.
If you wish to, you’ll be able to let go of any engagement with the respiratory approach, and easily relaxation because the conscious openness, and see if it turns into obvious that this conscious openness may be very secure. It’s not one thing you’re doing, and it’s not a sort of consideration as a result of doing and a spotlight are unstable. Spacious awakeness is tremendously secure, and so we relaxation as spacious awakeness itself. Spacious awakeness isn’t one thing you do together with your thoughts. The thoughts is one thing that the spacious awakeness does. Pondering and doing and feeling are all downstream of this wide-awake openness.
Now, let this awakeness pay attention to all of physique sensation, simply feeling the entire physique, not solely the breath sensations, however all of the sensations, with out bearing down, simply permitting the sensations to come up in consciousness and spot the vibratory high quality of the sensations. A few of it’s very apparent: it’s buzzy or tingly or rhythmic not directly. Different issues could at first appear extra strong, however as you enable consciousness to note them extra clearly, their vibratory nature turns into apparent as effectively. Our picture of the physique may be very secure, our psychological picture of the physique sees it as levers and pulleys and pumps and electrical wires — all these metaphors. However once we simply tune into what the physique looks like, to the physique, it’s a bunch of vibration, a bunch of buzzy tingly vibratory stuff. So simply discover that now. In the event you solely discover it in a single little space, then simply discover that. Finally, you’ll see it’s each sensation, and it’s tremendously enjoyable and opening and releasing and nice for the physique to be seen because it sees itself — on this vibratory energetic means. It’s alive, it’s supple, it’s fluid, it’s flowing, it’s transferring, it’s fabricated from power. As you calm down even additional, and settle into this awakeness much more completely, the readability and brightness of awakeness. You’ll discover that the all of the buzzy, tingly, energetic high quality of the physique resolves into nothing aside from awake spaciousness. That could be a idea, however is one thing that the attention straight “awares”. The physique itself is awake area, stuffed with power. See that clearly, not as an creativeness, not within the thoughts, however as one thing we’re straight conscious of.
Excellent. Now, in the identical means, look into the exercise of pondering. Not into the content material of the pondering, however the exercise of the pondering. Discover that it, too, is just a sort of vibratory motion. In the event you’re fairly relaxed, you’ll discover that as an alternative of 1 stream of thought there’s often many occurring, all collectively as sort of a broad spectrum of exercise. There’s simply loads of vibration there, it’s simply stream of thought power. We don’t need to attempt to interrupt this stream, or change the stream, or fear concerning the content material of the stream, or attempt to change the content material or something like that. We merely tune into this power, this vibratory power of pondering. The extra this awakeness tunes into the vibratory power of pondering, the extra apparent it’s that, on a really refined stage, this stream of thought power is nothing aside from awake area. It’s simply huge, boundless, awake area, vibrating as thought power. Again and again, discover this power of thought as merely vibrating awake area.
Now, you’ll be able to both stick with that, or if you wish to, you’ll be able to go along with me to one thing slightly extra intense. However it’s going to be intense, so in case you’re feeling not up for that, unresourced or no matter, simply stick with doing what we’re doing now. If, however, you need to dive into some emotional stuff, then, what I would like you to do is to carry up the sensation that you simply’re actually making an attempt to keep away from on a regular basis. Regardless of the very worst feeling, emotionally, is, whether or not that’s disgrace or rage or despair, or no matter — I would like you to carry that up on function now. Keep in mind, you don’t have to do that. Solely do that in case you determine to go along with me right here. Carry it up on function, simply stop resisting, and let it come up, and permit no matter ideas and pictures are required to make it actually come up strongly. That factor that you simply spend all day making an attempt to keep away from feeling. Cease avoiding it, and simply let it occur. That begins to be comparatively sturdy. It’s fairly simple to note that, by way of the expertise of the emotion, not the ideas across the emotion, however the expertise of the emotion itself, is like power and vibration within the physique. There’s sort of this intense power, relying on the sort of emotion, it could possibly be actually excessive frequency sharp power, or it could possibly be actually low, heavy, power, however, it doesn’t matter what, it’s vibratory. You may really feel the vibration taking place on this awake area. See if you can also make it just a bit stronger, and really feel its vibratory, energetic qualities. As an alternative of getting caught within the psychological content material, really feel the bodily a part of it, the extreme power, after which, as earlier than, discover that this intense power, proper within the core of this tough, tough feeling, expressed as intense power, is nothing aside from conscious area, vibrating area, boundless, openness, proper within the middle of the sensation. The sensation itself is only a sort of actually highly effective power. If we don’t resist it, and we let or not it’s there utterly, and see it very clearly, we expertise it as awake area vibrating. It may well even be refreshing, opening, stabilizing, grounding. Keep in mind to permit the psychological content material round it to even be skilled as awake area, huge openness, boundless readability. You see that even this very tough emotion is nothing aside from huge awakeness and boundless freedom itself, with out ever doing something to it. We’re not altering it, we’re not avoiding it, we’re not transmuting it, we’re not bypassing it, we’re going proper into it. I’m feeling it’s huge open, huge awakeness of large power.
It’s the alternative of avoidance, the alternative of sublimation, or repression, or bypassing—we’re assembly it utterly and going proper into it with no resistance.
Now, discover the room, the sunshine, the shapes, the colours, the textures, the patterns, sounds. We’ve realized to consider it, to mannequin it, to conceptualize it, as secure, however in expertise, it’s repeatedly transferring and altering, perhaps barely, perhaps quite a bit.
Discover the expertise of the room, and the sound of the room, and the facet of the room, the contents of the room. All that have is none aside from vibrating awake area, conscious, boundless excessive power. Actually clear. It’s not simply nothing — there’s every kind of shapes and colours, and it’s additionally simply huge open, conscious area. In the event you discover, the room has huge open vibrating area, and emotion as boundless open clear area, and thought power as a stream of huge open clear spaciousness and boundlessness and openness, and the physique itself as conscious vibrating area, with no boundary and no middle. The rest in any respect that arises, arises as an expertise as nothing aside from awake area. Then what else is there, however large openness, readability and power? There’s a way of unboundedness. That’s the feeling of freedom. There could also be an actual sense of deep pleasure or satisfaction at this large readability and power, completely unbounded, completely unconstricted, open, unfastened, free. The enjoyment itself is, after all, simply extra conscious, vibrating spaciousness, and but it may be tremendously highly effective.
From right here, it’s simple to actually take pleasure in all of the arisings, shapes, colours, sounds, emotions, ideas. The large brightness and variation and enthusiasm of the show is tremendously beautiful, stunning, scrumptious, wealthy. Discover the enjoyment that’s out there from this vibrating area. It’s all the time there, deep, deep inside it. Simply the enjoyment of the liberty and the readability and the wonder. It’s not in some way merely trapped in a physique. It’s radiating out in all instructions and radiating again from all instructions, on a regular basis.
There’s a palpable sense of the large magnificence and enthusiasm of the world and being is all the time flowing, ever current, completely free.
Let’s finish the meditation there. Be at liberty to maneuver and stretch. If it is advisable to go to the lavatory or no matter go forward and do this.
During the last like 35 years or one thing I’ve labored with this one Indian lady instructor who’s a conventional Guru, and it’s actually widespread whenever you work along with her that you simply sort of get knocked into this very altered state. That may really feel other ways, however usually it looks like an ecstatic energized world of awake area, and then you definately do this in a retreat for days and it will get turned up and turned up and sooner or later, inevitably, simply when that might get actually good, she would yell at me and be like, “Mahesh,” which is what she referred to as me, “Mahesh, go chop greens.” I’d should stand up and go to the kitchen and with a very sharp knife, chop greens as quick as I might, popping out of that place. At first, I assumed, that’s only a coincidence, after which after some time, after years of that, I spotted, she’s doing that on function, simply to be imply or simply to fuck with you. However, after some time, I spotted that contacting that sense of vibrating awake area is tremendous essential, tremendous deep, and significant and significant, however that’s not sufficient. It’s not nearly trying out into a very nice area, however as an alternative, noticing that your entire common world remains to be there, and from that place of vibrating awake area, it’s extremely cool, stunning, wealthy, attention-grabbing, significant, deep, highly effective. Not simply in some way erased by nothingness. Your job is to have interaction with it, however have interaction with it from awake area, not from some sort of constricted little ball of being a character combating with all the pieces.
It’s actually attention-grabbing. The lesson that I type of obtained beat into me, which is it’s essential to note awake openness, and it’s additionally then essential to re- have interaction actually strongly from there, and never simply Teletubby your means by means of the day. As an alternative, doing stuff and noticing that that isn’t a contradiction. These two issues aren’t even separate, or they’re totally different, however they’re not separate. Every part is an exuberant expression of that energized awakeness, and never in some way like bumming you’re excessive, bringing you down off your cloud. That’s simply not the concept. There can typically be an actual sense that there’s a particular world of consciousness and power, and that it’s completely totally different than this. It usually looks like that, oh, if I tune in, there’s a separate world of openness and power and sweetness and stillness, and that is all simply in the way in which of that. That’s not true — or it’s that that’s simply sort of midway there. The remainder of the way in which there’s to note that this isn’t in the way in which in any respect. This isn’t any totally different than that, and interesting, partaking, partaking, partaking, is what that awake power needs to do. It doesn’t need to disappear into its personal awakeness gap. It’s right here to do stuff and have interaction in and expertise and luxuriate in and create. That’s all it does is create. So, regardless that you understand it’s problematic to speak sequentially, I’ll speak sequentially and say at first we’re all caught within the constricted, reified thingness of all the pieces. There’s no area and there’s little or no awakeness, seemingly, so the primary a part of our meditation is like prying our grubby tight little fist off of engagement with all of the stuff. Whenever you lastly acknowledge, once I calm down and open and simply let go of all that rigidity, there’s simply awake area, and that’s it it’s vibrating, it’s intense, it’s conscious, it’s spacious, and perhaps there’s nothing there.
However that’s half one, after which half two is, wait a minute, all that vibration is making all the pieces occur, it’s making colours, it’s making ideas, it’s making emotions, it’s making all the pieces occur, and that’s not dangerous, that’s superior! Now you’ll be able to really come again and get into all of it as a result of, there’s no tightness, there’s no grabbing, there aren’t palms to seize with and in a way. So most of the teachings, you’ll discover out, there’s simply going to stage one. They’ll simply sort of drop you off within the tremendous vacuum cave — and it’s a cool place, however they’re, like, there you go, take pleasure in your vacuum cave. It’s pleasing, but it surely’s a lifeless finish, it’s silly.
It’s, why had been you born? What’s flawed with you? [laughter]- apart from Girl Pink!
Questioner 1: Final week I requested you, in order that’s like the character of thoughts, why are you certain you’re exhibiting up, and now you’re like, in case you simply go to the cave, it’s Superman.
Michael: Right here’s what nature of thoughts is doing! Even in case you work actually arduous, and it may be sequential, and that’s wonderful to get to that place. There’s extra to do, and it doesn’t even should work that means. You may by no means go away, you don’t should dive to zero after which come again out. There can simply be straight noticing over and over.
So what occurred on the market? What are your experiences? What are your questions, feedback?
We are going to carry you a microphone and do not forget that it isn’t only a microphone on this room. You’ve a query means again there.
Questioner 2: Howdy. Actually early, once I was beginning to enter into the vacuum cave,
I really had a sensation in my throat that was like a tickle like I wanted to cough. If I’m at house, I simply cough, however in an area like this I began to panic and I used to be like yeah
Michael: It’s good to panic. [laughter]
Questioner 2: It was actually peaceable, there’s the cave, after which it was Doom. I believe my query is, is it value it to attempt to deconstruct a bodily sensation like that again into area?
Michael: it’s all the time value it, why not however, you may simply cough, too. It simply relies upon.
Questioner 2: Good.
Michael: Typically, what if it’s tremendous intense ache which you could’t simply cough out? It’s simply gonna be there. Your means ahead is perhaps, simply gotta go into that. So, you may have each strikes out there, and typically you trip. Typically you go means into one, different days you go into the opposite. It’s all attention-grabbing, but it surely’s useful to know the context.
Questioner 2: Yeah, thanks.
Questioner 3: Howdy, I used to be not blissed out, however I might like it in case you might ship that for me one time. However what was actually cool is like in going by means of the feelings, one of many issues that was actually cool for me was really the power of disassociation that was arising for me. To me, that’s an power, similar to any of the others, that I might comply with again, and would change into spacious. I used to be interested by your individual journey, expertise of taking part in with that, as a result of I believe it comes up quite a bit for me.
Michael: Can you’re feeling your physique?
Questioner 3: yeah, yeah
Michael: So that you’re not dissociated, and earlier, had been you capable of really feel your physique? Whenever you say power of dissociation I’m undecided precisely what you imply.
Questioner 3: What do I imply by it? There’s a means during which I really feel in freeze mode, perhaps I’m really outdoors of my physique slightly bit, is like what it looks like. It looks like I’m not absolutely in contact, and my mind, my thoughts, and my ideas, may be like, oh, you’re simply being very nonetheless proper now, however the power doesn’t transfer, it virtually feels frozen. The thoughts labels that as dangerous, so it’s looking for the opposite power that’s there.
Michael: In the event you can really feel the nonetheless frozen power, you’re not dissociated from it, as a result of
you’re feeling. Dissociation means you’ll be able to’t really feel it, so I might simply say, what if it’s okay that it’s nonetheless frozen? Simply test that out. Let it do this factor, and perhaps it’s the case that our expertise of the physique may be a lot bigger than the bodily physique appears to be. That’s not an issue. It’s not like we’re essentially escaping something, it’s simply greater. That doesn’t imply dissociation can’t occur, however your description of it, you’re clear that it’s nonetheless frozen, so that you’re nonetheless in contact with it. So I might simply say, simply test that out. Is it actually that also, that frozen? You recognize rattling effectively in case you test into it, that it’s not. That concept that it’s this stuff and that’s dangerous, that’s what’s main you astray there.
Questioner 3: Yeah, yeah. That’s dangerous is certainly within the unconscious, for certain.
Michael: There’s a means that you are able to do this to dissociate however the steering I’m giving retains making that basically actually arduous. You need to strive, so don’t strive. I’m going to come back again over and over, okay. Does that assist? Good.
Questioner 4: Thanks. That was actually cool. I felt like there was stuff that’s been bothering me quite a bit, that I simply felt it as vibration of awake area. I don’t suppose I’ve ever actually felt that earlier than, and it sort of deconstructed issues. I actually respect it. My principal query is, what’s up after the cave?
Michael: That’s what I used to be saying. You may deconstruct it down to simply this awake area which may be very cool, however there’s nothing to do there. Which is, in a means, okay, however there may be traditions that as an alternative of noticing the vibration there, are noticing the stillness, and need you to simply relaxation there and keep there. However, in case you listen, it’s not nonetheless. It’s energized, and the minute you return into the power, it comes again into all this, however seen in an totally new means, not as caught stuff, however actually exuberant rainbow power stream, proper? In order that’s what’s subsequent: Coming again in and noticing that each one the ideas are like that, all the sentiments are like that, all of the doing is like that. It’s wide-awake electrical energy that’s having enjoyable. It’s not simply sitting there. It’d sit there for some time, however even that it’s vibrational, so it’s whole re-engagement, however with all of the knots labored out.
It’s like earlier than you had been making an attempt to bounce whenever you had been only one huge cramp throughout, after which now the awake area takes you thru like a complete de-cramping– an actual therapeutic massage–the place all of the knots get labored out, and now you begin transferring and it’s a very totally different feeling. It’s deeper than that as a result of who’s even transferring at that time? It’s like that feeling whenever you’re in a complete dance stream, the place it’s simply area dancing. You’re not making an attempt to do one thing, so on this case, awake area is dancing the world into being an exercise. In order that’s what’s subsequent.
Questioner 4: Cool, thanks.
Questioner 5: Thanks once more for that. I’m undecided I’ve a lot of a query as a lot as I’m curious what your suggestions can be to this. Whenever you had been telling your story of whenever you’re we’re together with your instructor and or experiencing the quantity of Shakti that you simply skilled along with her and so forth, one of many issues that got here to thoughts, as a result of I’ve skilled my very own model of that, was Shinzen as soon as speaking about there’s no have to ever go away samadhi, and so forth.
Michael: That’s the entire speak I’m giving, is what it’s wish to not go away samadhi.
Questioner 4: There additionally appears to be on the opposite facet of that coin which you highlighted in your story, that I might additionally relate to, was whenever you’re sort of in simply being blasted with all that, then experiencing that inside your self, there isn’t a have to really feel the necessity to cling to that — both to hurry and chop some onions or cope with some cellphone calls or emails. It looks as if we’re extra scattered. I gotta get again to that. I keep in mind you commented virtually a 12 months in the past once I got here again from the monastery, there’s that underlying belief and religion within the apply, and in your self, of what even when there’s all this, our personal nonsense, what’s beneath all of that, on a regular basis? I’m simply curious if there’s something you may need to say about that.
Michael. Simply that finally you discover that each one the exercise isn’t in some way taking you
out of your meditation. It’s the meditation, proper, it’s coming straight out of the awake area, which you heard me say already, so I didn’t add something, however that’s that’s my response. At first it feels such as you’re being knocked out of your cave, and that simply means you didn’t get it, not less than not deeply sufficient. Finally you acknowledge you’ll be able to’t get knocked out of it, as a result of it’s not a state, it’s not a particular, altered state. The awake area is all the time there, all the time, all the time, all the time, all the time.
Final query – or assertion or critique.
Questioner 5: It’s a really easy terminological query. That factor you’re making an attempt to level to, which you’ll both have the there and again once more with the vacuum cave, or you’ll be able to simply discover it, is that what is known as rigpa?
Michael: Awake area is rigpa. Technically, actually, rigpa is simply the Tibetan phrase for information–simply common information–like every sort of information, however when it’s utilized in a Dzogchen context, it means awake area. Identical to the Sanskrit phrase for it might be vidya, which is simply information. So, it’s only a regular phrase being utilized in a very particular means. If we had been doing that, we’d simply say, discover the awakeness. Why they name it information is, whenever you’re pointing at it like that, you’re understanding it. It’s like that, not the information of that factor, but it surely doesn’t work that effectively in English. Nowadays, it’s a lot clearer to simply say the awake area, awake spaciousness, or some individuals name it awake consciousness, you would say awake conscious area, that’s rigpa. What’s totally different is, it’s not simply simply consciousness, as a result of consciousness can nonetheless be that constricted, tight, clumped. Whenever you drop all that, you’re not grabbing on to something, then all that’s left is spacious awakeness. Then, finally you discover that even the clinching stuff was all the time proper, all the time consciousness, however unrecognized as such.
Thanks.
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