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