Guided Nondual Meditation by Michael Taft
Streamed on March 3, 2022
So the very first thing I need 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 the direction of all beings. Not simply males, not simply even people, all beings, have peace on Earth; good will in the 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 need you to, when you’ve taken your meditation posture, I need you to breathe usually and naturally and start to only 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 may even use, like, a steady labeling that can assist 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’re staying with the breath. So let’s get going there and we’ll do this for a short time after which we’ll unpack the remainder of the guided meditation collectively.
Okay? Superb. Now transferring alongside right here, what I need 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 only 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 permit 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, for those who grow to be concerned in considering, simply drop that and allow them to dissolve. Don’t do something to them, simply let go. When you 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 present 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 partaking with them. So if you end up engaged, simply drop and are available again to being area. When you’ve, identical 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 stress-free.
On this place there’s nothing to do, there’s nothing to alter, all the pieces is excellent. Simply relaxation into, relaxation as, huge, spacious consciousness. Already awake, completely clear, totally full. Nothing to do and no doer.
Good, now we’re going to do some visualization. So, into this discipline of vacancy, into this discipline 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 prime of our head, or type of in the direction of the highest middle of your head. It’s after all not centered anyplace in any respect however for now I need you to think about that there’s a form of a lovely white mild with possibly a tinge of – very, very mild tinge of – purple shining, radiating within the prime, from the highest of the top, like a sphere of sunshine. And the sphere of sunshine is simply the middle of this complete acceptance, complete sense of loving presence. An actual deep, deep peace and full kindness and knowledge. So simply think about this whitish mild radiating like a lovely white solar on the prime 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 prime 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, lovely white mild of affection and kindness and caring and compassion. Deep, deep, deep knowledge shining in all instructions.
Good. Now let’s simply permit that middle of awake consciousness to only 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 groups; 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 may image all of the religious academics of all time there. Or no matter religious academics, particularly the nice masters of the previous. They’re all situated there, shining this mild of knowledge, of jñana, of vidya, proper? So you may both image this yellow, glowing orb by itself or you may embody the presence of those tremendously highly effective religious beings who’re wanting upon you with kindness and caring. Whole, complete acceptance of you simply the best way you’re, 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 think about to be, like, an woke up religious grasp; like a Buddha, like a bodhisattva. All of them you with kindness and caring.
So you might have seen we’re doing the mandala visualization however as a substitute of putting 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 totally accepting of you simply the best way you’re. Completely in your aspect, totally cheering you on, so to talk. You recognize, supplying you with steerage 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 permit 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 stage of the guts. Proper within the middle, not like the guts. And I need you to image inexperienced mild now, a inexperienced sphere of lovely, emerald inexperienced mild. A really life giving colour. 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 need 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 film them there within the coronary heart, once more. Gazing at you. Gazing at one another with complete acceptance; acceptance, actual friendliness. Friendliness on this case is that want to only join with others and be form. And likewise you are feeling mudita there, the sweetness, the sense that after they’re joyful, you’re joyful, after they smile, you smile. And I need you to only 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 identical time on this inexperienced mild on the stage 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 permit 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 beneath the abdomen, that is above. You may actually really feel like a photo voltaic, the photo voltaic plexus power. I need you to see this very vibrant, very sharp, very fiery pink mild there. Vibrant pink mild. Extremely important, extremely robust and in a approach it’s sharp. You may even, although it’s this radiating pink mild from a sphere, it has a pointiness or a sharpness. And that is the power of safety. That is the power holding us and others secure. That is each us holding others secure and others holding us secure, and even religious beings holding us secure. So with this pink, fiery, pointy, fierce, intense pink mild; image any beings there that you just consider as protectors. Protectors for you, protectors of the world. The world wants protectors actually dangerous proper now. Think about the beings, they may even be the identical because the religious beings, they may even be the identical because the love beings. They don’t need to be totally 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 lovely, form, protecting power; the fierce, protecting power 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 need 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 world of help. That is the power 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 exquisite, 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 need you to do is on the in-breath, I need you to image the breath coming in by the highest of your head, by 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 pink mild and into the perineum with the blue mild. After which on the out-breath it’s going the opposite approach, in by the perineum, up the backbone, by every of the facilities; blue then pink, then inexperienced then yellow, then white and out the highest of your head.
Okay? So it’s a humorous visualization. Power coming within the prime of the top, transferring by every of those facilities. Re-each of the facilities, persevering with to radiate and feeling that power. After which in by the underside of the backbone, arising, up, up, up by the backbone and out the highest of the top, okay? Proceed with that visualization now and actually really feel the power at every location. Don’t pause, don’t hit your breath however simply calmly really feel the heart beat of every of these spheres of power, because the breath goes up and out after which again in and down.
Persevering with on that in-breath, the air goes by the highest of the top all the best way all the way down to the underside of the backbone after which now all the best way all the way 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 by the highest of the top and out to the cosmos. So the in-breath truly comes from your entire cosmos, down by the highest of the top, all the best way all the way 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 permit the white mild and the yellow mild to return down into the inexperienced mild on the coronary heart and collect there. So that every one three are shining now far more brightly, far more intensely. And permit the blue mild and the pink mild to return up and collect within the coronary heart, now shining far more intently. And all these lights collectively, after all, make white mild once more. So this was a superb, lovely, tremendously loving, tremendously clever, caring, compassionate mild. Shining within the coronary heart; mild of consciousness, mild of knowledge, mild of compassion, mild of affection, mild of complete 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 every single place. Let this peace contact all beings in every single place. Let this kindness contact all beings in every single place. Let this knowledge contact all beings in every single place.
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. Whole readability and kindness that at all times is behind each expertise. This huge, spacious consciousness; simply relaxation there. No photos 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 all people let’s finish the meditation there.
Dharma Discuss
And you may permit your self to maneuver and shake and wiggle and stretch. And simply permit your physique to do what it must do to really feel good. Enable your self a pleasant glass of water or some tea, or no matter fits you for the time being. 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 have 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 solution to do it and a really highly effective solution to do it.
I wish to remind you that, you already know, awake consciousness, consciousness itself has no middle. It’s not coming from anyplace. It already is in every single place. It’s non-local, it has no middle and it has no edge. It has no circumference, it has no boundary. So after 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 prime of the top or in our coronary heart, or no matter. I used to be fairly cautious to say a pair instances not less than 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 every single place and so in every single place is the middle. That’s why we will visualize like that and have 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 only 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, you already know? I don’t learn about you however I went to high school when there have been actual blackboards that wrote with an precise chalk and you already know we had these kinda material erasers, eraser blocks. And so you already know 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 last 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 primarily wipe the blackboard clear, we erase the blackboard. And that offers us a lovely palette, or what’s the right phrase? The canvas, a lovely canvas upon which to – now I’m going to alter from the blackboard metaphor as a result of we’re utilizing colours. A gorgeous canvas upon which to color our visualization of those numerous energies.
So in case you wish to go over that once more, we have been doing first—power of simply unconditional kindness, unconditional caring, love and so forth. And that’s simply consciousness itself. That was the white mild on the prime of the top.
Then within the head it was gold and yellow mild. And that was the knowledge, particularly the knowledge power of all of the religious academics.
After which we went to the guts which was inexperienced power. Inexperienced power of affection, of friendship, of group, of connectedness. In order that was the inexperienced.
After which we went all the way down to the photo voltaic plexus, form of the higher stomach. That actual radiant, intense, pink protecting power. Plenty of folks report that after they do the mandala visualization, or on this case the central channel, one of many central channel visualizations, that pink power looks as if the one which’s essentially the most lacking or the toughest to get in contact with. And the thought there’s – a part of the kindness, a part of the caring that we’re discussing is taking care; taking good care of different beings like simply how you’d defend a tiny animal otherwise you would defend a little bit child, or no matter. That form of fierce safety, “hey I’m not gonna let anyone hurt this being.” Properly, in the identical approach we now have religious protectors who really feel that approach about us. We’ve 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 power to guard it.” In order that’s that pink protecting power and if that feels weak for you or it was arduous to get in contact with then, that’s telling you one thing, proper? That’s, and actually this entire approach of visualizing might be regarded as form of a, too robust a phrase is prognosis, however it simply form of reveals you the place possibly issues are a little bit weak. And so for those who, like many individuals, weren’t in a position to tune into that protecting power so simply or it was not as obtainable, then I need you to spend further time fascinated about what symbolizes safety; like ‘fierce, mama bear safety of the cubs’ form of power for you. And to have the ability to image that and to really feel that, okay?
After which happening 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’ve that blue power and that’s the power of the inspiration, the groundedness. The form of physicality of our being itself. It’s a beautiful indigo blue; deep, deep, blue mild. And you’re feeling that form of structuring precept, the patterning precept, we even really feel the ancestors. So there’s an entire reference to demise 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. Similar to we will image the higher one, the form of like, formless knowledge one, increasing out to contact your entire universe.
And so you may consider this visualization nonetheless you need. It may be form of a Jungian psychological, a Jungian-esque psychological instrument. Or you already know, relying by yourself private approach of regarding issues, you may consider these as actual energies and actual refined beings and with Buddhas and bodhisattvas and numerous deities concerned. So it’s, you may take it nonetheless 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 likewise there’s a form of readability and your coronary heart is open. It’s very, very, crucial. Once more, I mentioned this through the meditation, however if you’re picturing these knowledge beings, no matter, whoever they might 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 flawed, or no matter’. They’re by no means like that. That’s, that’s not the power of a knowledge being. The power is – they’re in your aspect. They actually love you and care about you and so they wish to assist you to to develop in a very optimistic approach. They actually simply need the very best for you. They need you, they need you to develop and so they 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 need 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 wished to – a solution to image them is basically in your aspect. Not someway judging you or discovering you falling brief, okay? In order that’s a little bit bit about that, a little bit bit about this visualization. Let me understand how that went for you.
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