Nov 2, 2023
Guided Nondual Meditation
We’re going to start tonight with some very gentle seated motion. The true directions are: transfer nevertheless you need, however transfer in circles. Begin with circles together with your hand. Do no matter you need, however if you happen to really feel like following me, let’s not do tremendous tight circles, simply actually unfastened. Then elbow circles of no matter kind. Hopefully, your arms are getting extra noodle-like by the second. Shoulder circles—they will go each shoulders collectively, or reverse circles, or ahead or backward, or no matter. Then get your elbows and wrists and shoulders all working without delay. The objective right here is that it feels good. In case you’re doing one thing that doesn’t really feel good, swap instantly to one thing that feels good.
Simply really feel the looseness coming into the physique and looseness coming into the thoughts and looseness coming into your very soul as you do that. Let your neck do some circles. These don’t must be enormous, simply nice circles, enjoyable circles. Then torso circles. Type of anti-hula-hoops, because it’s your higher physique transferring not your pelvis transferring. Now, every thing without delay. The pinnacle transferring, the arm transferring, the shoulders transferring, the palms transferring, the elbows transferring. Simply really feel that good unfastened openness. I’m going to do these, simply because I prefer it, you don’t must do it.
Now, sitting up, proceed to do little circles together with your backbone. You guys who’ve been right here earlier than know the place I’m going with this. Little circle circles with the backbone. The concept is to have it’s this good wave in your backbone. Begin making it smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller, until it’s actually barely transferring in any respect, however nonetheless transferring. Actually really feel that it’s nonetheless transferring simply barely in any respect. Now I need you to get to the place the place you may’t inform if it’s transferring or not, as a result of the motion is so tiny. But it surely’s not nonetheless, both, precisely it could be transferring and that’s how we obtain nonduality. We don’t know if our backbone is transferring or not. There it’s—simply kidding.
Now, from this place, really feel deep inside. Take a look at what it’s wish to be you proper now: the thought climate, the emotion climate, the physique sensation climate. There’s quite a lot of climate in there, and what I need you to do is simply test it out. If any individual was like, hey what’s the climate like in there? Simply look. You already know, all of us might need opinions in regards to the climate. I want it had been completely different, blah blah blah. But it surely’s additionally simply the climate, so no matter it’s like, simply let it’s that means precisely that means, No matter it’s feeling like, let it’s that means. Discover when you have this sort of primary sense that I’ve to alter it. No, it’s not okay, I’ve bought to alter how it’s in there. Only for the size of this meditation, simply comply with let it’s nevertheless it’s like: we’re not gonna go after it. We’re going to put aside our basic self-aggression only for a short while, and simply let it’s okay to be no matter it’s. Let’s do this collectively for a short while right here.
Now, actually, we might simply do that for the remainder of the hour simply sit and let ourselves be precisely how we’re with out interfering, and if you wish to do this, go forward. For everybody else, see if you happen to can discover the already current spaciousness in your individual expertise. The way in which your thoughts, the way in which your expertise, is already naturally open, already naturally relaxed. The way in which wherein you don’t must attempt to bear in mind as a result of it’s already on with out you doing something in any respect. So, discover that spaciousness, that openness that’s there once we simply come into presence with our personal already current wakefulness. You’re simply awake. It’s on already, nothing to do, however we will discover that it’s spacious.
With out dropping any of that sense of spaciousness, I need you to note the rising and falling of the breath wave within the physique, in order that muscle wave of respiratory within the physique goes up and down. We’re staying very open whereas we’re doing that, not narrowly focusing down on it. We’re merely feeling it, identical to if I mentioned, hey what’s your foot really feel like? You can reply the query with out vipassana deconstruction of the foot molecules. You can simply really feel your foot the identical means, simply really feel your breath rising and falling within the large open, completely relaxed, very brilliant and clear area of wakefulness.
There could be a actual sense of desirous to do quite a lot of stuff right here, or attempting to determine how to do that proper, or actually partaking in quite a lot of psychological gymnastics. Just because, both we’re simply used to doing that, actually within the behavior of being very psychological, or we have to do it to distract from the way it feels to breathe, or simply what’s happening in our physique. So, sitting in our open consciousness like this simply feeling the breath. I’m encouraging you to let go of attempting to determine something out, attempting to do it proper, attempting to suppose suppose suppose suppose suppose. As an alternative merely really feel what it feels wish to breathe whereas remaining current, remaining actual conscious. Not going into some breath absorption, however relatively merely feeling the breath. Simply gonna sit and breathe.
Excellent. And now, with out making too massive a deal out of it, or attempting to resolve or something, simply discover no matter probably the most nice feeling in your physique is. Simply discover that, once more, not specializing in it or getting tight, simply with this relaxed unfastened, open vibe, simply feeling no matter feels the most effective. After I say that, what folks will hear is no matter appears like exploding, orgasmic ecstasy, and I’m not saying that. I’m saying, simply comparatively, no matter is a pleasing feeling in your physique, one thing feels nice. My proper earlobe is doing fairly good proper now. Once more, we’re not focusing onerous on it, simply letting that nice sensation come up within the presence of spacious wakefulness.
Now, simply basically, what, all through the complete physique, the complete area of physique sensation, simply no matter feels type of good, discover that. So, type of all of it, relatively than only one spot.
Good. Now, go to the other finish, what’s the worst feeling in your physique proper now? The completely worst, painful, disagreeable, uncomfortable, nauseating, no matter feeling, and simply really feel that in the identical means. As if only one factor among the many complete sky of consciousness, one little chicken within the sky of consciousness that we’re not focusing down on however definitely noticing. So really feel that disagreeable sensation. Particularly with the disagreeable sensation you would possibly discover that you simply’re attempting to alter it, otherwise you’re questioning what’s mistaken: why does it really feel that means? How can I make it cease? Oh, God, I went to the physician, they usually don’t even know, or no matter. We’re simply setting all that aspect apart proper now we’re setting it down and as a substitute simply feeling the sensation.
Now let’s do what we did earlier than with the nice feeling however with disagreeable physique sensation: the entire physique—all of the disagreeable stuff in the entire physique, simply discover that unexpectedly, the assorted aches and pains, or no matter, simply the entire package and caboodle of not good sensations. Permitting them, identical to the breath wave, and identical to the nice sensations, to easily come up and go, come up and go, and come up and go on this large open consciousness.
Good. Now let all of physique sensation. Be form of equal in consciousness of nice physique sensation, disagreeable physique sensation, and something in between. All of it—we’re simply sitting large open, large awakeness feeling the physique. Letting it do its factor, feeling-wise, with out attempting to alter it in any means. There it’s the physique, the sensations of the physique. To no matter extent you’re fascinated with it, set the pondering apart. We’re not combating the pondering, we’re not battling the pondering, we’re not stopping pondering, however we’re setting it apart and easily feeling what’s there.
I need you to note one thing about these physique sensations, once more, staying good and large, not slim. Do you discover that they’ve, what, for an absence of a greater time period, we’d name an lively part? Clearly, I don’t imply that in any physics sense, however we’re simply going to make use of the brand new age phrase, we’ll simply name it power. These physique sensations are transferring and altering. They could really feel type of wavy, they may really feel buzzy and tingly, or, if you happen to’re actually tuned into that means of experiencing, they may as a substitute of feeling like a strong lump of flesh or a joint or a bone or no matter it feels extra like some type of vibratory expertise.
Now, if it doesn’t really feel that means, don’t attempt to make it that means. Simply discover if any a part of anyplace within the physique appears like that. However, for a few of us, the extra we sit with physique sensation with out interacting with with ideas, the extra it begins to disclose its energetic qualities as a result of the pondering retains it type of caught within the psychological picture of a physique. Pondering retains it caught contained in the boundaries and it’s bought to be strong, and it’s bought to be this and that. Whereas, if we let go of concepts in regards to the physique and simply really feel the emotions, the emotions of physique sensation, they start to really feel very cellular, very energetic, very vibratory. So see if you happen to can tune into that. Often, the extra you discover it the extra of it you discover.
Isn’t it humorous that you could really feel your entire physique is simply type of a bunch of overlapping interacting wave phenomena. Everybody’s like, don’t say Quantum, don’t say it. I’m not going to say it, however actually it’s only a means of speaking about it—that it appears like quite a lot of waves or vibration or one thing. If we’re experiencing this as a type of large open sky of consciousness and inside that large open sky, there’s all these sorts of waves and ripples and vibrations. That’s just about how the physique experiences itself—as steady wave vibrations, ripples of motion. It’s motion, and you’ll really feel that instantly with out making something up.
Discover how as you tune into that energetic high quality inside area, even throughout the sensations there’s quite a lot of area. Even tight, constricted, knotted, crimping in physique sensation, when skilled like this, as vibratory energetic wave-like phenomena, it begins to open up. You begin to discover there’s really tons of room in there—even when it stays all tight. Numerous room, a lot of area. It’s actually relaxed. We are able to shift our consideration, simply barely shift our consciousness, or our view, simply barely, and see that the physique sensation itself, even the vibration, even the wave-like stuff, even the buzziness, the tingling, even ache, even pleasure, it’s only a type of transferring vibrating area. It, too, is simply large open, large large large open spaciousness, ease, and brilliant clear, wakefulness. The physique’s awake, conscious. Your thoughts could be asleep, however your physique is awake, in probably the most nice means.
So, now, we’re sitting because the area of consciousness, with even the physique sensation as spaciousness. It’s like there’s area within the room, and there’s area in your physique, so there’s simply area meditating in area.
Now, inside this spacious energized wave-like vibratory expertise, discover any feelings which might be arising. On this means of working with feelings, we’re not together with something about thought. Quite, we’re simply feeling the physique sensation a part of emotion—embodied emotion. These are James-Lange feelings, not cognitive behavioral feelings. No matter emotional sensations are in your physique, whether or not they’re nice, or disagreeable, or each; overwhelmingly massive, or barely there in any respect. Coming from this very, very, spacious consciousness very, very, spacious sense of the physique, discover the vibratory wave-like energetic high quality of that emotional sensation and actually really feel it.
We’re not attempting to one way or the other dodge your feelings by pretending they’re all area. Really feel it. Really feel what’s there, wherever it’s within the physique. Not attempting to determine it out, not attempting to consider why it’s there, not attempting to resolve it. Simply feeling it. I invite you to go deep with this. If possibly on the floor you form of really feel like, oh properly, this or that occurred, I’m type of having these emotions at this time, however you sit right here with out interfering, with out partaking the equipment of thought, from a really spacious place with an energized physique, you would possibly begin noticing another stuff beneath the floor feelings. Like, geez, I’m fairly positive I’m unlovable, and I’ll all the time be alone and unloved—not as a thought—however as a sickening certainty in your stomach. Or another equally disagreeable emotion. The world is unsafe and I simply must be afraid on a regular basis. Issues like that. I’m expressing it like a thought, however it’s a sense, a certainty so deep and so widespread in your expertise that you simply most likely haven’t even seen it for some time. But it surely’s there, so simply really feel that, once more, simply instantly. There it’s within the physique.
Start noticing, identical to we did with the common physique sensations, discover the energetic high quality, the truth that even that type of actually deep certainty of one thing actually disagreeable, is simply within the physique as a way of motion, change, wave vibratory phenomena. If it’s not, simply come again to feeling the common physique that means. Simply chill out, discover possibly your ideas bought actually engaged, and set the ideas apart once more, and are available again to feeling simply that emotion. We’re by no means attempting to flee any feelings. We wish to really feel them fully. These items by no means works proper…simply really feel the energetic high quality of these emotions, which permits us with all of the area and all of the vibration and motion; it permits us to really feel it much more fully, much more completely, while staying unfastened and open.
Then discover, as we did earlier than, discover that even these emotional sensations, which could be actually intense, are themselves suffused with area, large open, conscious openness. Ease even within the midst of it. Feeling actually horrible, actually unhappy, actually scary—that, too, is area, and we really feel it as area and vibration, whilst we’re feeling the totality of the emotion, not denying it or one way or the other abstracting it away. We’re staying proper with it, proper with it, proper with it.
So now, the physique with all its sensations, nice and unsightly, emotional, non-emotional, we’re experiencing as energized awake area with out including something. Let’s simply sit with that for a short while.
If you end up engaged with the equipment of thought, simply disengage. Set that factor again down. Come again to easy presence, openness, feeling what’s there. Snap out of it.
If you end up partaking with the equipment thought, set it again down. Don’t cease it, however simply set it down. Come again to easy presence with what’s arising within the spacious clear openness of the physique.
With out altering something in any respect about your expertise, can you modify your perspective and see, with out imagining something in any respect, however simply by altering your perspective, are you able to discover that the physique, all of the physique sensations, all the emotions of the physique, are arising out of that area—are like an expression of that openness? A good looking exuberant vibratory expression of simply area itself. House is so full of life it vibrates a physique into being out of nothing. The physique, whilst a non-vibration, the physique has like meat and heavy stuff and bones and blood—I’m beginning to enter dying Sangha there—cease. The physique as all of the heavy stuff is nothing apart from the gorgeous dream of a wakefulness that by no means, ever, has not been awake.
Awake area can exuberantly go out typically. So, once more, with out altering something in any respect, with out including something. We’re not imagining, we’re not layering on ideas, we’re merely shifting our view barely. With what’s already happening, discover the whole lot of the physique as an expression of wakefulness itself. Nothing apart from wakefulness itself within the type of a physique that has emotions and feelings and aches and pains, and ups and downs.
In case you really feel able to it, and you could not, you could want to keep excellent right here. It is a great spot to meditate. In case you really feel able to it, discover the identical issues about pondering. Choose up the equipment of thought with out actually partaking, however nonetheless, now noticing the ideas, pondering, and see how the ideas, too, are simply motion vibration, waves, power.
If that’s not apparent, then simply return to the physique. Whether it is apparent, then you definitely’re able to work right here. Like every other info medium, ideas have their content material however in addition they have their substrate, the precise, on this case, feeling of pondering, we’re going to only name it a wave or power, however it’s virtually just like the medium that the concepts are in. However we’re simply feeling the medium, and the medium is transferring. It’s like waves, it’s like power, it’s like vibration,awves of thought.
For most individuals, they have an inclination to maneuver up from beneath the top and stand up from the stomach or means down, they stand up. It’s only a feeling of a thought arising. Once more, if that’s not apparent, simply come again to common physique sensation. However, if you happen to can discover the waves of thought, the waves of power and pondering, sit with that for a minute. It is rather nice. Thought is a type of fountain, a really nice fountain that’s simply effervescent alongside, not hurting anyone, simply doing its factor. Noticing that there’s a high quality of thought that’s merely power, motion, a wave that isn’t in any means completely different from the physique. It’s not some type of separate factor. Seems like a physique sensation, and retains feeling these waves arising within the sky of wakefulness.
Discover that ,on the very middle of these waves, the power of thought, it’s not separate from consciousness, it’s not separate from area in any respect. Ideas are merely area exuberantly expressing itself as thought. Spaciousness, openness, dancing as thought. The physique is openness dancing because the physique. Dancing as sensation. Ideas are spaciousness dancing as ideas. One other type of sensation. It’s not likely that completely different in any respect.
Discover the sensation of the thoughts as simply large open, large awakeness, an ocean of wakefulness by means of which waves, ripples of ideas, go, with out ever being completely different than the ocean, by no means separate. The waves are by no means separate from the ocean. Motion of thought is rarely separate from wakefulness.
Now, with out partaking concepts in any respect, and noticing this large open conscious spacious, boundaryless, vibratory physique and thoughts. Simply discover instantly what you discover after I ask you to ask your self the query, what separates me from anyone else? Discover how that sense of large openness welcomes every thing, welcomes everybody. It’s not rejecting something, ever. With out including something, or attempting to be a sure means, or imagining this, or attempting to try this. Consciousness itself is already fully welcoming. It’s heat. It says welcome, come on in. Consciousness itself has belonging, it has connection, it has brother- and sister-hood. It has compassion. I’ll say siblinghood of any kind. We don’t must gin up any sturdy sentiment of compassion, we simply really feel that open, welcoming, warm-heartedness that’s all the time there. It’s all the time there.
So, let this large open, conscious, heat open-heartedness, that could be very welcoming, very variety, discover that it has no boundary. All the opposite large open, conscious, open-hearted, heat, welcoming, variety awarenesses, throughout, are fully in contact. Simply let that taste of open-heartedness simply discover that it’s naturally radiating outward and that it’s additionally receiving again from everybody else that very same sense of welcoming heat, kindness, and caring.
Okay, excellent.
I used to be saying final week, once we do that, we’re simply feeling what’s there. I’m simply noticing what’s there. I’m not asking you so as to add something, however much more clearly, I’m asking you to subtract some stuff. It’s actually extra about subtracting the same old issues we’re including, than including in something new. In case you discover, the large subtraction is after I say, take the equipment of thought and simply set that apart. Don’t combat it, don’t wrestle with it, don’t attempt to cease it, however simply don’t interact with it. For many adults in our society, that’s about 95% of what they’re doing on a regular basis, is simply partaking with thought. So, after I say, let’s simply set that apart, that’s a subtraction: that’s fairly main. Regardless that we’re not stopping something, the engagement is most of our exercise. So after I’m saying, simply don’t hold on to these gears anymore, simply let it go. Many of the issues that you simply’re including into the combo on a regular basis are actually not being added in—all of the story, all of the technique, the fantasy, and the ego story simply will get, for a second, disconnected. It’s nonetheless there, nonetheless occurring, we will interact with it any time.
Discover, I’m not saying disconnect with the emotion. We wish to stick with the emotion, proper, as a result of these are current proper there, so it’s not simply fully dissociate out of your ideas and emotions. No, simply really feel all the emotions, however let the complexity of the thought exercise sit over there for some time, and as a substitute, come into easy presence together with your physique, together with your feelings, with the disaster of your life, or no matter. Simply sit there with it with out the distraction machine for some time. What does it merely really feel like? What do the feelings really feel like? Ultimately, even ideas really feel like that once we re-engage with the motion of thought with out essentially the content material.
What’s attention-grabbing is, if you happen to do this for some time, you get some facility with simply sitting there with what’s occurring, you’ll begin to discover that due to your coaching and due to societal norms and due to photos in books or on the net, all alongside you’ve been placing your physique right into a sure type of field. You’ve been placing your feelings into one other type of field, and also you’ve been placing your expertise basically in a sure type of field. And the field is product of meat and blood, and it’s solely bought these sure potentialities, and it’s very mechanical, and it’s very useless, as a result of that’s how the equipment of thought imposes itself on the physique. However whenever you set that apart for a minute and simply you get good at setting it apart, so it’s not arising on a regular basis, however it’s simply sitting there.You come into direct expertise of the physique, you’ll discover it doesn’t really feel useless, and it doesn’t really feel like equipment, and it doesn’t really feel like all of that stuff. It feels primarily like transferring stuff, like waves and vibration and buzzy, tingly-ness, and so forth. So, we’re not imagining that, it’s what you begin to really feel the extra you get out of the conceptual overlay that we’re usually placing on it. The extra that you simply take a look at any of those wave sort phenomena, it begins to be clear that there’s quite a lot of area there, too. It’s actually spacious.
We are able to go into this one type of the deep finish, which is repeatedly transferring and altering waves with a bunch of spaciousness—how is it even a factor? Much more attention-grabbing is that appears like what it’s wish to expertise a physique and feelings, and finally even ideas, as simply repeatedly altering flows that we’re not attempting to flee. We’re not attempting to elucidate away, we’re not attempting to one way or the other summary into nothingness. We’re actually simply feeling them in a easy current means, however not placing a bunch of conceptual overlay on it.
It feels actually attention-grabbing, it feels actually alive, it feels actually current, actually juicy. Numerous it would really feel actually dangerous, quite a lot of it would really feel actually good, however it’s not uninterrupted, yeah it simply feels nice. No my again hurts, or my knees, however it’s attention-grabbing when that’s skilled exterior of the idea of all that and extra like—I’m attempting to consider Leigh Brasington’s phrase, “streams of dependently arising processes interacting,” like these things arising, waves occurring—in order that’s a direct expertise after some time.
Then finally, even the ideas have that high quality as a result of they’re not one way or the other completely different than the physique. They’re completely different, however they’re additionally embodied, and you’ll really feel it as a sense and a wave phenomena, and finally, as spacious awakeness.That’s the place it will get attention-grabbing–whenever you arrive in presence you discover all this openness and ease and wakefulness, then it flips typically. You may flip it on function, however it flips of its personal accord, too, and also you’ll discover, wow! All the things that I’m feeling and experiencing is simply area. Type of exuberating! Even that expertise, even me, is simply area type of coming out. Then coming again into your day the place, even when it’s coming into your day as—wow, vibrating area! That’s having good experiences, dangerous experiences, troublesome experiences, crunchy experiences, nice experiences, no matter. That’s very cool. It’s much more attention-grabbing when it’s, this entire day is simply area exuberating. Lets say, the thoughts of the Goddess is simply having a cool thought.
Now that appears like, Michael, I believed you mentioned we weren’t going so as to add something or have any ideas. Effectively, I’m speaking about it, so sounds fairly conceptual—however I need my a reimbursement, Jesus! That was an entire load of ideas. It’s simply onerous to speak about however that’s what bare expertise begins feeling like, as a result of that’s what deep beneath all our layers and layers and layers of ideas. It’s actually all that’s happening, and even the layers of idea are simply that, happening. These aren’t the enemy, both, they’re simply initially blocking. However they arrive again round to point out that they’re not completely different both: they’re simply extra exuberant area doing its factor. I don’t know. I might discuss this for a very long time.
Any questions or feedback? Anybody have any issues they wish to say?
Questioner 1: I simply wish to say I don’t have any questions, however each time I do that sit, I’m all the time shocked, in a extremely lovely means, with how highly effective the spaciousness flows, and simply how linked it’s to every thing. That is just a few actual ass shit, and I actually admire it. It’s actually been a life-changing meditation that I’ve attended in particular person and on the reside stream and I’m simply grateful, thanks!
Michael: Thanks.
Questioner 1: I’m so grateful you’re right here. Thanks for what you do you.
Michael: Who desires to comply with that?
Questioner 2: Thanks. So, if simply sitting with emotions form of allows you to see them as these power waves, however then once we transition to form of thought that means, you form of had an instruction about, if you happen to already see it as an power wave form of nice. If not, don’t fear about it. If not, possibly simply stick with the physique as a result of it could be onerous. Positive, that’s completely cool and I admire that instruction.
Michael: However…
Questioner 2: and, is it simply form of persevering with to do the apply, do you begin to see ideas that means as properly, or do you might have finally….
Michael: Sure, and there’s a lot of hints, suggestions and methods and different practices we will do to make that simpler, however that’s the true sticky stuff. So, attempting to do it instantly, it would work, however you would possibly simply be caught up once more.
Questioner 2: Yeah, I admire you having skillful directions on the way to not get slowed down there proper, however it’s attention-grabbing as a degree of reference.
Michael: There are a pair issues, however I’d say, the principle instruction that will get you there’s: discover that ideas have a sense high quality, they’re a motion of the physique, or a motion within the physique, they’ve a wave-like high quality. If that’s clear, then all of the stuff you did with physique sensation and troublesome and straightforward physique sensation and emotion and all that, all of the sudden, it’s simply the identical. Do the identical factor with these waves of thought, and then you definitely’ll see the spaciousness, and also you’ll discover the spaciousness changing into the methods of thought, all of that. However, if not, if you happen to can’t discover but the subtlety of that thought wave, then simply give it time, and also you simply hold engaged on the opposite stuff.
Questioner 2: Yeah, it comes and goes, that’s nice, thanks.
Questioner 3: Hello. I’ve an issue with falling asleep throughout meditation. I believe I’ve skilled myself by accident to be actually actually good at it. So I’ve began meditating with my eyes open as a substitute, however I’m questioning when you have every other recommendation.
Michael: Possibly you’re the one one getting sufficient sleep in order that’s good. Are you continue to falling asleep together with your eyes open?
Questioner 3: Just a little, however it’s higher.
Michael: It’s higher, okay. It’s the identical recommendation as all the time, which is, eyes open, sit up, so your again is possibly a little bit navy, just a bit bit, as a result of that does a factor to your nervous system. It’s onerous to go to sleep except your again slumps a little bit bit, so if you happen to’re protecting your again actually upright, it’s actually onerous to fall asleep. Rise up if it’s a must to. One other one is, typically, trying down results in sleeping. Trying up has the other impact—it’s form of alerting. So, as a substitute of trying down, lookup.
There’s one other one in there, a little bit subtler however, in a means, very highly effective: it’s that conscious spaciousness is rarely drained. How have you learnt you’re drained? How have you learnt? Since you really feel drained, and also you’re slumping, and also you’re drooling, and your eyes are goopy. However one thing is conscious of all that, and it’s simply as conscious of it as it’s conscious of the rest. So, that’s a little bit trickier, as a result of if you happen to’re caught within the thoughts, if you happen to’re caught within the equipment of thought, it’s onerous to note that, However, if you happen to can put aside the equipment of thought, the wakefulness is awake. So that is true even if you happen to go right into a dream, even if you happen to fall all the way in which asleep, the wakefulness remains to be awake. So, that’s more durable, however that’s type of the economic energy model. Discover that the attention isn’t sleepy.
Then, one very last thing, which is to do yoga nidra—do guided sleep meditation for some time, and see that you simply’ll go to sleep after which come again out of the sleepiness. You hand over resisting the sleepiness and also you simply let go into it whereas laying in your again, and then you definitely’ll come again out of it. You would possibly even be actually awake. So these are some pointers. Don’t make the sleepiness into the large enemy, simply see if we will play with it in numerous methods.
Questioner 3: Okay, thanks
Michael: Yep.
Questioner 4: My query is, whenever you had been saying to search for vibrations. I’m not fairly positive I do know what you’re pointing at with the phrase vibrations. What it appears like after I’m…
Michael: Do you do jhanas?
Questioner 3: Sure.
Michael: You already know what piti is?
Questioner 3: Yeah.
Michael: That’s it, okay. So even the easy model of it, the place it’s simply you’re feeling your palms tingling.
Questioner 3: So, you may search for very, very, very delicate piti?
Michael: To make use of that language completely. In different phrases, I do know, simply because I do know your apply a little bit bit. I do know what vibration is.
Questioner 3: Okay, okay
Michael: That’s why I’m speaking in that means.
Questioner 3: Thanks.
Michael: It’s not onerous. It’s not a particular vibration.
Questioner 4: Extra of a report, and a query on the finish. I felt principally like I had a metaphysical finger shoved down my throat, and so much got here up. I imply, I’m not too
shocked, however I don’t know, I really feel like a hypocrite in a means as a result of I work with folks instantly in instructing yoga or teaching. A standard factor is it’s a must to really feel your feelings, you may’t keep away from it proper now. I don’t wish to really feel my feelings.
Michael: Effectively that’s one other emotion, proper? I imply resistance is there.
Questioner 4: Is there some Voodoo that you could simply flip off the dangerous feelings and solely really feel the nice ones? Is there some magic heroin, I don’t know, it sucks.
Michael: Give it a shot.
Questioner 4: I suppose the true query behind that is what I’ve skilled. I believe you describe it as nondual 1, the sense that I’m not separate from the world however there’s this observer observing it. And it’s like there’s…
Michael: That’s completely different than what I’d name nondual 1.
Questioner 4: Okay, that’s my expertise, I don’t wish to put phrases in your mouth.
I really feel annoyed in a means, as a result of I can expertise this vibration whereas I’m crying and I really feel like shit.
Michael: Didn’t I say that although? I did say, this may really feel actually dangerous—and it’s nonetheless vibrating. This will really feel actually crunchy and uncomfortable and terrible and it’s nonetheless large open, proper? That doesn’t imply I can do no matter I wish to different folks and it’s nonetheless large open. I’m not saying that. I’m saying, discover your individual expertise of feeling disagreeable remains to be large open, nonetheless vibrating. So what’s the trick you need, the voodoo? You aren’t these dangerous emotions. They’re there, you’re the awake area, too, and the awake area is what turns into the emotions. All that’s occurring is you’re spending the time being the sensation, and never in a nondual means—completely glommed into it. As an alternative, attempt to be the area, okay after which finally you discover these two issues aren’t really separate.
Questioner 4: Does that result in some type of okayness with the emotion? Does it ever imply that the emotion doesn’t hit so onerous, or is so painful?
Michael: It’s simply onerous to speak about appropriately, however I’ll say it positively makes it hit differently that’s a lot simpler to take care of, however it would possibly suck simply as dangerous.
Questioner 4: Acquired it, thanks.
Michael: In the identical means, does a meditation expertise imply if my knee had been crushed by a 16 ton weight it wouldn’t damage? No, it’s gonna damage—so much, however your expertise of that damage might be completely different in a means that’s a lot simpler to deal with. But when it didn’t damage, there’d be one thing mistaken with you. We wish to have a full human expertise, not a numb expertise.
Questioner 4: Thanks, I’ll attempt heroin. [laughter]
Michael: Good luck.
Questioner 5: I discover feeling, observing my physique and feeling all of the adjustments which might be happening, and I’m decoding that because the vibration. I’m even having the expertise of not being so hooked up to what I usually suppose was the form of my physique. However I do not know what you’re speaking about whenever you discuss area exuberating.
Michael: Simply come again to feeling the vibration and possibly some spaciousness. In case you’re feeling vibration and spaciousness, then in a technique, you’re nonetheless type of coming from I’m watching the vibration in area, however right here I’m, I’m a physique and a mind watching vibration in area. Keep in mind, I mentioned with out altering something, besides the route you’re coming from, discover that would simply be area vibrating into being a physique. That’s what I imply. Nonetheless vibration in area, didn’t add something, simply got here this manner. That’s what I imply.
Questioner 6: Hello, my query was in regards to the sensations related to ideas. That was actually cool to me as a result of it was the primary time the place I checked out my ideas, not as like whether or not they’re true or not, however as a sense in my physique. I seen that a few of them create this like feeling of buoyancy and others create this sense of, I suppose, pondering.
Michael: These are emotional reactions to the thought. Nonetheless physique sensation, however these are uncomfortable side effects, proper?
Questioner 6: Proper. It was attention-grabbing as a result of after I would expertise a sinking thought, I might type of attain for one thing that felt greater up and extra buoyant to remain afloat. However I used to be questioning if attempting to form my ideas on this means goes in the suitable route or not, or if it’s higher to only pay attention to them and type of allow them to be.
Michael: You get to decide on. There’s an entire lovely route of imaginal work that’s about shaping that, and there’s an entire different route of simply letting them be and it’s not even like some type of everlasting resolution, proper? You can do one at one time, and the opposite at one other time. So each are wonderful, truthfully. I’m not going to be like, no, by no means form the thought, as a result of that’s nice—that’s creativity, proper? Generally shaping all that’s actually lovely and enjoyable and funky and really how we make stuff occur, so yeah.
Questioner 6: Thanks,
Questioner 7: I don’t have any questions, however only a remark. There was like type of a nondual second when she fainted.
Michael: You wager. What’s happening?
Questioner 7: Effectively that, however, additionally, you had mentioned one thing proper earlier than you’re like wakefulness is rarely not awake after which she’s like shhhh, and I used to be like oh I get it yeah, I get it.
Michael: Yeah, we paid her to try this. [laughter] Thanks on your questions.
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