Guided Nondual Meditation by Michael Taft
Welcome to guided meditation tonight with me, what’s my title? Michael Taft.
All proper now we’re going to do guided meditation, it’s going to go on for an hour and the thought is to take a seat nonetheless for an hour, okay? A few issues; flip off your telephone if it’s on this room and also you haven’t checked flip it off, be certain that it’s off, the opposite factor is; there’s a pair issues one, once more, attempt to not transfer and principally you don’t need to comply with the steerage, proper, so long as you sit nonetheless and meditate. You are able to do no matter you need in your thoughts, do no matter meditation feels good to you. We’re gonna do one thing type of difficult tonight so when you’re into what I’m main then, by all means, get into it however when you’re like, ‘whoa, not for me,’ then simply sit and do your individual meditation and fully ignore the steerage, okay?
So, the primary half, or no matter, is not going to be the difficult half. So a minimum of for the primary half hour we might in all probability all sit collectively however you’re by no means required to comply with the steerage at any half, okay? So when you simply need to sit with a gaggle and do your individual factor, so long as it’s silent and immobile, you’re very, very welcome to do this.
All proper, so let’s start as common by checking in with ourselves simply how are you doing proper now? Discover the ideas within the thoughts, discover the sentiments within the physique, discover simply the overall temperature and texture of your existence, and nonetheless that’s, simply let that be okay. In different phrases, there’s no state we’re making an attempt to attain that’s the proper state, moderately, nonetheless you are feeling is okay, nonetheless your thoughts is correct now, nonetheless your feelings are, even when it’s very chaotic, even when it’s very disagreeable, that’s the way in which it’s proper now and in order that’s excellent. So simply tune in to no matter’s occurring and simply let or not it’s nonetheless it’s. For those who simply had a large mood tantrum about not having sufficient time then that’s how you are feeling. For those who really feel deeply ashamed about that then that’s how you are feeling, proper? That’s okay. However, when you’re experiencing whole pleasure that’s okay too. All good.
What if we simply begin out with the angle that there’s nothing to vary, that all the things is okay, that we’re capable of completely settle for no matter’s occurring simply the way in which it’s, even the state of not with the ability to settle for? We are able to settle for that and simply permit no matter is to be the way in which it’s. Discover how totally different that is than the standard angle of our society which could be very aggressive in the direction of our personal expertise, very aggressive in the direction of having to vary the way in which we really feel, and alter the way in which we’re, and alter what’s occurring with our ideas, and alter all the things. It’s very aggressive and judgmental however what if it’s all okay? Our thoughts is could be only a sewer stuffed with chaos and our feelings could be deeply upsetting and random-seeming. What if that, for now, is okay? And we simply permit the house for that to be?
And now, I need you to take the temper or angle the bhavana to make use of the sanskrit phrase, use the temper, the bhavana, of the sky. So take the temper of the sky, being tremendously huge with out boundaries, tremendously open, tremendously accepting. Sky welcomes all the things, all the things can transfer by way of the sky, tremendously welcoming or accepting and, in a method, completely impervious, completely undamageable. The sky is okay it doesn’t matter what occurs within the sky. Planes can undergo, clouds can undergo, birds. Every part occurs within the sky however the sky isn’t broken, sky stays simply nice, simply the way in which it’s.
So take this temper of huge boundlessness and openness and acceptance and even centerlessness. What’s the middle of the sky? There isn’t one, it’s simply–each a part of it’s the middle. The sky is the closest factor to our personal deepest consciousness, house, openness, readability. The one variations are; the sky of the thoughts, the sky of our personal consciousness is awake, it’s cognizant, it’s gnostic, it has figuring out, it’s not like a rock or a piece of cement, it has expertise. So it’s the sky and expertise, be that sky. You possibly can’t assist however be that sky since that’s your individual deepest nature, it’s open consciousness, huge spacious consciousness.
Now, I need you to image one thing rising within the sky from the horizon and it’s a good looking full moon. For those who’re not good at picturing, then simply really feel the total moon. See this full moon, which is that lovely cool white in opposition to darkish, darkish, darkish blue, rising–effulgent, shiny, cool, calm and clear. And simply image it, simply now, above the horizon, proper within the middle of creativeness, this excellent circle of a shiny white moon in opposition to darkish, darkish blue background. And let’s simply stick with that for a short while collectively.
So the meditation object is that shiny white circle in opposition to the infinite blue sky background. For those who lose it simply convey it again up. Bear in mind you don’t want your bodily eyes to do that. So there’s no must pressure or attempt to focus. It’s occurring within the thoughts’s eye. If you wish to make it a bit more difficult and a bit stronger of a meditative focus see when you can discover the curvature, the dimensionality of the sphere of the moon
in addition to the depth of the sky, so it’s not a flat visualization. Now think about that this moon is the sunshine of your individual awake consciousness and movie a beam of sunshine coming from the moon into your stomach and this beam of white mild is bringing vitality and playfulness and spontaneity into the physique. Filling your complete physique with this moonlight brings your complete physique into stability, brings large life pressure and uplift and vitality to the physique, regulates the physique, uplifts the physique, turning the physique into virtually like a crystal bottle stuffed with mild or a tent, a white tent stuffed with mild. It feels very, excellent. Pretty vitality that feels therapeutic and soothing and loving within the physique.
For those who really feel sleepy open your eyes. Do the meditation–even the visualization–along with your eyes open so that you keep awake. It’s essential to remain awake. And now see a second beam of sunshine coming from this moon of consciousness into the guts middle permitting it to blossom into full openness, broad openness, feeling kindness, feeling caring, feeling pleasure, feeling love beaming into the guts inflicting all of the metaphoric petals of the guts to open broad and filling your complete physique with much more of this soothing mild.
You could discover fairly a little bit of vitality within the physique as you do that, particularly as these optimistic feelings of pleasure and kindness and caring and love actually begin to glow within the coronary heart. Simply chill out and let that vitality simply beam out as mild. Clear, crystal physique lit up with mild. Actually really feel that pleasure, that love, that caring kindness radiating out from the guts middle and radiating into the guts, from this moon of consciousness, of your individual deepest awake consciousness.
Good and now a 3rd mild beams out from the moon into the middle of the brow and into the mind filling your complete thoughts with knowledge and readability and, most significantly, confidence, an amazing sense of confidence, which isn’t conceitedness however a way of figuring out, knowledge, readability. Confidence within the thoughts radiating out like a shiny lamp, shiny shining mild within the thoughts filling the physique with much more mild, our personal deepest knowledge.
Now the three lights within the physique come collectively so the sunshine within the stomach strikes as much as the guts. The sunshine within the thoughts strikes down into the guts in order that the guts turns into its personal shiny moon of awake consciousness. After which, on an in-breath, the moon within the sky comes into the guts as properly, bringing the knowledge and readability and confidence into the guts, bringing the spontaneity and playfulness and vitality and therapeutic into the guts in addition to the love and kindness and compassion and pleasure. All of those qualities shining shiny. And the type of the physique drops away so your complete physique is, as a substitute, simply the sky with the moon within the sky, nothing however sky with this moon of shiny consciousness shining inside it. Stick with that now.
Someone’s psychic powers are messing with the lights. So, that’s cool.
Now let go of the visualization and simply stick with the temper, an enormous house stuffed with this
awake consciousness or we’d simply say; an enormous house of awake consciousness, tremendously clear, vibrant, awake, variety, joyous, playful, most significantly assured.
Simply relaxation as that sky. No visualization, the sky of consciousness is at all times there, it’s only a sense of openness and readability–completely easy, already current with none effort.
Now let go of time completely, any considered the longer term vanishes upon arising, any considered the previous vanishes upon arising. Even ideas of the current are nonetheless ideas of time they vanish upon arising and we relaxation in timelessness, which isn’t a time in any respect. We relaxation in simply openness. With out time boundlessness is a type of spaciousness however with out the boundaries of house, timelessness with none boundaries of time. If that appears laborious to do exactly ask your self the query how lengthy has this awake consciousness been right here? After which look and any sense of future previous and even now will vanish into timelessness. Simply pure wakefulness in time, pure awakeness, primordial perfection, pristine primordial perfection, simply awakeness outdoors of time and house.
Now, we’re going to start doing the difficult half. So when you’re not feeling up for a problem then simply relaxation as this primordial consciousness. It’s a really highly effective meditation to only proceed with. For those who really feel up for some intense tantric stuff, that’s what we’re going to do subsequent however it will likely be difficult. So if it turns into too difficult for you come again to this moon, come again to house, come again to only resting with this useful resource house, okay? You’re at all times welcome to bail on it, again to this.
However for these of you who need to take awake consciousness for a bit spin I’m going to do this now. So the very first thing we’re going to do it is a type of set off apply. We’re going to be actually feeling some sturdy feelings and permitting these feelings to only be on this house however we’re bringing them up on objective. So, once more, if that doesn’t sound like what you need to do proper now don’t do it, simply maintain with this primary house as a result of we could be within the primordial purity like this. However now we’re going to make make an extra transfer which is transferring into spontaneous presence. That’s the kind that may come up out of this consciousness. And these types are like rainbows, they’re actual experiences however when you attempt to grasp on to them there’s nothing there. It’s essential to grasp that out of the primordial vacancy primary house experiences come up however they’re additionally empty.
So right here’s the very first thing I need you to do, it’s easy, I need you to get in contact with sorrow, your deepest sorrow. And it doesn’t have to only be one, it’s issues that convey up large disappointment, large damaged brokenheartedness, all of the struggling you’ve endured, all of the struggling of individuals you like, the really unhappy issues which have occurred. I need you to convey that up as strongly as you may after which permit that have of this disappointment to shine like a rainbow in house. It simply shines as an expertise in house, we’re not negating it, we’re not pretending it’s not there, we’re really amping it up and permitting it to be there, very strongly. However on the similar time noticing its dreamlike property there–however not there vivid, shiny, clear and but intangible. Don’t maintain again I need you to essentially dig into the deepest sorrow you will discover after which stick with it. We maintain ourselves armored away from this sorrow, making an attempt to maintain it at bay however now we’re going to fully open to all of it the way in which. All of the considered all of the murdered youngsters, ravenous youngsters, the stupidity that causes cruelty that hurts all people not solely our personal struggling however the struggling of all beings is tremendously unhappy. Really feel that disappointment as sharply as now you can whereas on the similar time noticing that it’s like an look within the sky, the sky of consciousness itself isn’t harmed in any method. And we’re not blanking out our ideas right here. We’re actually engaged on bringing the disappointment up on objective. Consciousness could be very assured, very courageous, and it can’t be harmed so there’s room for this disappointment, let it break you open now.
Good, now simply spend a second again with the rainbow, let the picture of disappointment recede and simply relaxation as this huge spacious consciousness, the primordial purity, the pristine vacancy however discover how your presence has deepened. Discover how your reference to openness has deepened. As a result of it’s armoring ourselves in opposition to these emotions that retains us out of our personal deepest awakeness.
Good, subsequent let’s convey up rage, anger, the photographs, the ideas that make you essentially the most enraged, all of the belongings you’d prefer to smash, that sense of large vitality that’s there in anger. Don’t maintain again. That is the alternative of entering into, really feel the anger as intensely as you may, as really as you may. What are you actually mad about at the moment? Really feel it, really feel the fashion.
And see that this rage is a rainbow within the sky, its spontaneous presence, its kind arising in vacancy, a vivid shiny clear type of rage and but intangible, not disturbing the sky of consciousness in any respect, and in reality, if we go proper into the white-hot core of the fashion delivering us again into pristine consciousness over and over. However don’t shortcut it, really feel the fashion, don’t be afraid of it. Once more, it is a very difficult method to meditate, so if it’s an excessive amount of simply come again to only resting because the sky. Really feel that depth of rage and spot the way it really sharpens the readability of awake consciousness, really feel the facility of the darkish aspect,
it’s pure kind arising within the huge empty house of consciousness, harming nothing in any respect, merely one other type of vitality, one other colour within the rainbow.
Good, now let’s let go of that. Coming again to only house, all kind dissolving again into pristine open house. Discover that the house is simply nice. House is unmoved and tremendously open. And see that it’s much more open than it was and simply relaxation as house for an additional second.
Good, once more, take a break when you want a break, in any other case, I need you to convey up into this huge house of consciousness the shape, the shimmering rainbow of worry. This may be simply all of the stuff you’re anxious about and anxious about, all of the stuff that you simply don’t need to have occur, all the way in which to the truth that the earth is on fireplace and polluted and dying, in every single place is warfare, we’re all getting older, there’s a pandemic, there’s many issues to be afraid of. Faucet into that uncooked chopping fringe of worry and really feel it shining in consciousness, convey up no matter it takes to really really feel some actual worry. What do you actually hope isn’t going to occur? Discover how tremendously energizing, fears brings a lot of vitality into consciousness. The rainbow of worry shines shiny within the sky of consciousness. We’re not resisting it, we’re not making an attempt to manage it, we’re letting it shine as intensely and brightly because it desires, not holding it again. Let the actual worry of worry–simply let that go and let the worry be as enormous and as terrifying and uncontrolled because it desires to be, don’t maintain again. The sky of consciousness is greater than sufficiently big.All these ideas you’re afraid of getting, all these emotions you’re afraid of getting, simply let all of it occur. Don’t maintain again. This meditation is all about not holding again. Discover, irrespective of how afraid you turn into, the sky of consciousness is unhurt, unconcerned, simply as all in favour of worry as the rest, broad open, unsleeping. However our contact with this awake consciousness might even be deeper, a lot deeper as a result of we’re not holding again, we’re not making an attempt to not have this expertise. Letting go.
Good, now let’s take a break once more, simply resting as pristine consciousness, simply the huge sky with nothing in it completely pure, completely pristine empty.
Okay, final one. This could be the toughest one. Once more, when you’re overwhelmed, simply maintain resting as sky, let the huge sky simply convey its personal peace. However when you’re prepared for extra I need you to convey up disgrace and self-loathing, all of the methods you are feeling silly, ugly, undeserving, damaged, fucked up, a nugatory piece of shit. Carry that up as really and deeply as you may, all of the belongings you’ve carried out incorrect, that solely an fool might have carried out incorrect, all of the methods you’ve let individuals down, all of the dangerous actions you’ve carried out, that sense of actual disgrace and self-loathing, and spot that too is sort of a rainbow shining within the sky, vivid, intense, highly effective and but intangible, virtually only a reflection or a mirage and but vividly there like a scene in a mirror which you’ll brightly clearly see and but by no means contact. Simply shining within the sky of consciousness, mirrored within the mirror of consciousness, and consciousness is rarely harmed, the mirror is rarely harmed by what it displays, in the identical method the sky of consciousness can expertise this deep, deep disgrace and be simply nice with it, really feel kindness and acceptance and caring in the direction of it as a result of it doesn’t hurt consciousness, this awake consciousness that we really are always, it’s simply one other expertise.
Discover how a lot deeper that takes you into this awake consciousness since you’re not avoiding something, all of the belongings you don’t need to really feel you’re open to feeling and it means that you can settle into the large, deep, huge, timeless, pristine consciousness.
So you may let go of this cloud within the sky of disgrace and simply come again to this stunning clear open consciousness, fully unsullied, pure, unhurt, undisturbed, huge timeless spaciousness. Discover how rather more deeply you’re resting in that with none effort. That is the primordial purity, the essential awakeness, unstained, clear, and shiny. After which really feel and see once more the moon shining within the middle of the guts. This sky within the coronary heart beaming out confidence and readability and knowledge, suffused with kindness and caring and love, shot by way of with vibrancy and spontaneity and vitality, shining shiny within the sky of consciousness, radiating out therapeutic and caring to everybody on this room, shining out knowledge and confidence and the Aristocracy to all of the beings in every single place, not simply on earth however all different planets and all different universes. Actually really feel that shining moon suffusing all the multiverse with pleasure and love and kindness and knowledge and vitality
Excellent, so let’s let go of the meditation now. Be at liberty to maneuver and stretch.
Dharma Speak Q & A
All proper, that was–for these of you who took half in that second a part of the meditation–that was…that’s actual meditation, that’s the good things, proper? That’s the place we’re not merely gathering useful resource, proper? Gathering useful resource is essential however we’re not simply solely gathering useful resource once we meditate we’re utilizing that useful resource to remodel.
And so we did some actual–that’s some very grownup industrial power meditation, touching the magic, proper? Actually getting in there. So good on you for doing that. For those who do this in your individual apply on daily basis that might be good, proper? Actually overcoming the limitations, overcoming our limitations of feeling like we–there’s simply a lot we need to keep away from, proper? However as a substitute what we’re doing right here is taking the view of awake consciousness severely, taking the view of the bodhisattva severely, taking the view of the buddha nature severely. Our awake consciousness actually is indestructible and actually is unafraid and completely assured and completely welcoming, actually welcoming of something that arises within the sky. Welcomes all the things into it and so we’re taking that at face worth after which noticing that wow, there’s all these experiences that I attempt to keep away from, there’s all these experiences which can be disagreeable. And there’s such a wierd alchemy to life as a result of if we maintain making an attempt to keep away from inner unpleasantness life will simply get smaller and smaller and smaller, and increasingly more flat, and increasingly more uninteresting, and increasingly more concrete, and finally we’re basically useless. It’s like a Princess and the Pea phenomenon, simply get increasingly more delicate to what you don’t need to really feel, and all the things simply will get smaller and extra fragile, and smaller and extra fragile, till we’re so small and so fragile we are able to’t do something.
And so this tantric temper is the alternative, the place we go into it–no matter is arising, we welcome and go into it and acknowledge that consciousness is sufficiently big to deal with it, sufficiently big to be with it, and sufficiently big to be assured with it. That confidence is tremendously essential. At all times sit with supreme confidence. Why? As a result of inside we’re already a buddha. Buddhas are tremendously assured. What have they got to be afraid of? And so we tackle that temper of the internal buddha and sit with confidence and
discover that no matter comes up consciousness can deal with it. That, after all, doesn’t imply we’re at all times able to do such a meditation. We’d want some preparation, we’d discover ourselves in a bit over our heads, which is why you at all times have the in-case-of-emergency-break-glass factor you may pull and simply come out and are available again to only awake consciousness and don’t proceed with the apply if it’s too intense.
However over time you’ll discover a wierd factor; you get excellent at dealing with the internal depth even when it’s actually disagreeable. But in addition life begins shifting, exterior life begins shifting fairly a bit. So we need to look into our personal awake consciousness, look into our personal shining core of wakefulness. That is the one factor we all know that we’ve obtained, proper? For those who come again to first ideas like what do you really know? There’s just one factor you really know and that’s you’re having an expertise proper now, that’s it. That’s the solely data. The lights are on in your thoughts, you’re having an expertise, all the things else is–could possibly be incorrect, all the things else could possibly be a fantasy, all the things else could possibly be, you already know, knowledge being pumped into the mind within the fish tank, or no matter, it might all be simply completely false. However the truth that you’re having an expertise is completely the one factor that you already know.
So look into that have proper now. That’s it. Every part else is ideas and emotions and so forth, which is okay. That’s all the shape arising, however the wakefulness itself, the expertise itself, that’s it. That’s the true data. What will we name this awakeness in Tibetan? We might name it rigpa, proper? What does rigpa imply? Data. If we have been speaking in Sanskrit, we name it vidya. What’s vidya? Data, proper? It’s simply the one factor we all know. It doesn’t imply data like stuff out of an encyclopedia. It means Oh! The one actual factor or the one certain factor having an expertise proper now. Have a look at that proper now, that’s it.
And this isn’t to in some way make the world appear insignificant. However the stuff that’s arising in expertise–experiences turns into much more fascinating, much more shiny, crisp, clear, fascinating, salient as a result of we’re seeing it as if for the primary time. It’s not all this stale, identified, predictable, quotidian mundanity that we’re simply slogging by way of. It’s the one factor that’s experiencing, being skilled proper now. It’s proper there like a lightning bolt within the darkest evening or some type of, once more, shining rainbow proper in the midst of the rain, proper? It’s as contemporary and crisp and clear as something might ever be. And that’s the attitude from which we don’t need to maintain again, ‘oh, I need to see that one rainbow however not the opposite one,’ or ‘I need…’
We don’t need to take this concept of consciousness, or the thought of the buddha nature, as some type of perception system or fantasy or an thought. Please don’t have it as an thought that you simply, you already know, like take a look at. It’s simply this reality of your individual consciousness proper now, that’s the one reality. There it’s, take a look at it now, it’s simple. It’s the one simple factor. There it’s.
And if we take that at face worth, as a result of properly, how else are you able to probably take it? Then you definately’ll discover your self growing large confidence and large fearlessness and large openness. It’s not an boastful, armored confidence. It’s a wide-open, broken-hearted, loving type of confidence that claims sure.
So once more, kudos for having gone there with that type of meditation. That’s not the type of meditation that tends to fill meditation halls. If we have been solely visualizing cute bunnies or no matter, which–that’s nice nothing incorrect with visualizing cute bunny’s noses, you already know, it’s all good however that solely will get you up to now. And finally, we have now to do that. So what do you–it doesn’t need to be feelings, we solely labored with feelings, however what are you avoiding? And does the notice once more, look into it proper now, it’s the factor that’s awake proper now, it’s not even a factor, it’s simply awake awakeness. What’s that avoiding? Trace; it’s not avoiding something. It has the alternative impulse. It desires to comprise all the things.
Questions? Feedback? Experiences?
Questioner 1: Report. That was highly effective shit.
Michael: That’s highly effective shit. That’s true.
Questioner 1: So, I used to be struck by the final emotion that you simply had, disgrace.
Michael: That’s not an issue for any of us.
Questioner 1: It felt so constricting. I simply felt like there was this pressure round me that was simply squeezing me down and there wasn’t a rainbow of any kind by any means.
I seen the kind of tremendous high-profile teeny little rainbow, I feel it was in rage or anger, however this one simply felt like this sturdy highly effective factor and it was simply, I used to be simply in that place. After which I stayed with it and I used to be simply feeling it, I used to be in it. And then you definately mentioned, ‘okay, now it’s time to return to the openness,’ and I felt misplaced. I didn’t know the place I used to be and thank goodness you mentioned ‘the moon,’ and I used to be in a position to return to that open place. And I simply…there was no sense of…I simply dropped into it like the underside went out. I used to be like, what the fuck simply occurred? I’m nonetheless in that open place.
Michael: That’s proper. What the fuck did simply occur? So once more, that is–once we attempt to not really feel that on a regular basis, and it’s a function of our society, it’s not the function of all societies. It’s a function of our society that there’s this core layer of disgrace and self-loathing that will get embedded. And so, if we’re at all times making an attempt to not really feel that, there’s an entire a part of like there’s a backside on expertise, we’re constrained. However once we permit that in, it could be very intense, proper, very intense, however then a breakthrough will happen. It doesn’t imply it went away, you already know. It’s nonetheless there. We’re not–this isn’t like, oh
all of it goes away and then you definately really feel like a contented bunny perpetually. The purpose is that each one of this stuff could be skilled and that openness simply will get extra open, and as you discover that it’s like the underside went out, proper?
So if you wish to like, when you really feel caught in your apply or I’ve been meditating for thus lengthy and I simply don’t appear to get any additional, or it’s type of like there’s some type of bizarre magnetic pressure discipline holding me again, it’s not a bizarre pressure discipline. It’s the constriction. It’s the need to not really feel one thing. There’s one thing that we’re holding again from and the sky of consciousness doesn’t maintain again, proper? So we search for the horrible factor, search for the horrible factor in there, the factor that you simply actually don’t need to discover inside, and it’s going to really feel dangerous, it doesn’t–it’s not prefer it magically feels good.There’s a purpose you’re avoiding it, you already know. It seems like shit.
Nonetheless, when you permit it, once more, if in case you have sufficient useful resource. You don’t need to do that from an unresourced place, or when you’re already feeling overwhelmed, however beneath the fitting circumstances you go into that and expose it to this sky of consciousness. After which, such as you mentioned, abruptly it’s like open broad and we drop into a very deeper degree of our apply as a result of we aren’t avoiding that anymore.
Am I simply saying the identical factor each week? Okay, yeah I’ll get this, you already know, this stuff are available in waves, so that is the month of non-avoidance.
Different questions or stories? That’s fucking fabulous by the way in which.
Questioner 2: What I discovered actually fascinating was simply noticing the totally different method
every of these 4 move by way of me. I felt virtually no constriction round sorrow it was identical to oh that is simply flowing, after which I seen with anger and with disgrace I seen quite a lot of the constriction. There I used to be like, oh these two, I like sorrow I’m like letting move, and these two I’m not likely eager to be there as a lot. After which I additionally seen, actually curiously, with worry that the issues that I’m most petrified of, once I invite them and are simply a lot much less intense than once I’m resisting them. And so it was fascinating that that one really wasn’t as like–it was like extra scary off the cushion than on the cushion as a result of I used to be identical to, all proper, I’m going to think about all of the issues, pull in all of the issues that make me essentially the most afraid after which they’re simply there.
Michael: That is the key to working with worry, proper? A lot of the worry is the worry of worry. So we let it in after which abruptly it’s not that huge of a deal. Yeah, that’s superior.
Different stories or questions? What’s s in your thoughts right here about this?
Questioner 3: I’ve a query. I assume my query since now lots of people are speaking about yeah like recession and likewise like two years of Covid how would you
juxtapose this type of meditation with stoicism? That’s extremely popular proper now in sure circles or simply typically.
Michael: I imply all this stuff share some stuff in frequent, proper? I feel the primary factor with that is that we’re open to life, proper? I imply we’re actually wanting on the true terror of being alive and the truth that, you already know, we’re falling by way of house, and who is aware of what the fuck? And all we’ve obtained is awakeness. That’s it and nothing goes to avoid wasting you. We’re nonetheless all going to get outdated, we’re all going to get–I imply when you’re fortunate you get outdated–we’re gonna get sick. Horrible shit is gonna occur to us and to individuals we love. And, you already know, on a great day then you definately die.
So that is the scenario through which we discover ourselves, proper? For those who’re fortunate, you simply croak. However who is aware of? Does the notice really go away? We don’t know. So that is the scenario through which we discover ourselves and it’s odd as a result of in some way that sounds pessimistic or like actually morbid nevertheless it’s identical to a primary reality. Like nobody’s ever imagined to say this nevertheless it’s only a primary reality. You can not deny it. So let’s begin from the essential reality. Begin with consciousness itself, which is the one primary reality, after which begin participating with life from the understanding that that is an intense expertise.That is actually intense.And but it’s actually fascinating how the notice itself is into it. The attention itself loves it. The intenser the higher, you already know when it comes to the setup. It’s simply as into peace as it’s to depth. However what I imply is the truth that there are type of no ensures is nice for awake consciousness.
So I’m not likely answering your query however that is what’s coming to thoughts. I imply I’m not gonna sit there and examine it level by level with stoicism or one thing. However I really feel like that is the tantric temper. The tantric temper–go into it. No matter the issue is, go instantly into it. And it’s actually superb apply and it’s not simply emotional, it’s issues in life. What’s the toughest factor it’s a must to do proper now? Go into it. What’s the factor you’re essentially the most afraid of doing? Do it.
That’s the temper and it begins to strip away the layers of mummification and necrotic, you already know, cement-mind and full checked-outness that we have a tendency to assemble to attempt to insulate ourselves from the essential reality.
You discover that you simply did that to really feel comfy however the extra comfy you
really feel in that one explicit method the extra useless you might be. It’s like a nasty commerce and but all the things tells us to do this, like that’s the sensible factor to do and, in actual fact, I’ll promote you some stuff that’ll assist you to do this higher. That’s our complete society. and so we’re simply unraveling that. Throw off the mattresses that we lined ourselves with, throw away the numbness of the necrotic flesh, and are available again into vibrant awakeness and consciousness proper now. I don’t know what else to say. Every other angle on the query?
Questioner 3: No, I imply that was stunning commentary and truly, I had an analogous
expertise with going deep into disgrace and type of falling method too deep into it. After I simply didn’t know what to do and it felt like being thrown out of the helicopter with
no parachute or a parachute that didn’t…
Michael: That’s the fitting feeling. That’s tantric.
Questioner 3: Yeah after which I spotted that there is no such thing as a floor, so then the worry like you already know falling and dying disappeared as a result of there is no such thing as a floor. There’s no method for me to die as a result of I’m simply endlessly falling. However then if I’m actually falling am I really falling? Or simply suspended in place?
Michael: So then, how did that really feel?
Questioner 3: It felt excellent. It felt empty and impartial.
Michael: Proper, then simply come again to that sky, tremendous shiny clear sky. The error, in addition to avoidance, that folks make is to solely go into the vacancy, proper? Such as you gotta begin out going into the vacancy as a result of it’s a distinction to being hooked up to all the things on the planet, and so it’s like an enormous miracle to search out the vacancy. And that’s very, very cool however the mistake individuals make is simply to remain there. I’m simply going to maintain going into voidic cessation. That feels nice however then that’s one other entice like now you simply obtained to go sit in a meditation cave for the remainder of your life as a result of that’s the place you’re discovering. You’re in your groove.
So as soon as we’ve obtained the sky of pure awakeness then we discover the spontaneous presence,
the stuff that arises in expertise. It’s in all probability even the case that we are likely to make an object out of that pure consciousness, nevertheless it’s not an object, proper? It’s empty identical to the rest however moreover, it in all probability doesn’t exist with out the stuff that’s arising. It’s in all probability like that the awakeness and this perceptive stuff, the perceived stuff, the spontaneous presence, the rainbows, the peacock tails cauda pavonis right here in our alembic, that stuff is all simply co-arising with the notice. They want one another. They invite one another. They arrive collectively and, in actual fact, consciousness is empty, the stuff that’s arising is empty however the notion is empty too. However that’s what’s actually occurring. That’s all there’s. So we don’t keep in our void. We come into being and are available into expertise and are available into what’s occurring within the fullness of it, okay?
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