This is a simple practice to learn to recognize pure awareness prior to the contents of consciousness,
To recognize that within which all experience arises and to realize that as your essential being.
As you repeat this process,
You become more familiar with the boundless awareness that you are and more able to rest as that,
Bringing a felt sense of greater peace,
Freedom,
Compassion and joy to your life and the lives around you.
You can do this practice anywhere,
Anytime,
And I encourage you to do it often,
Until you realize open,
Spacious,
All-embracing awareness as the abiding background and substance of all experiences,
And you know that you are open,
Spacious,
All-embracing awareness.
To begin,
Find a comfortable,
Upright,
Seated position and rest your hands palms cupped in your lap in an open,
Receptive posture,
A posture which embodies awareness itself,
That open spaciousness within which all experiences arise.
Now focus on an object in front of you.
Are you aware of that?
Yes,
You're aware of that.
Now,
Be aware of being aware of that.
As you become aware of being aware of that object,
A space of awareness opens between you,
The observer,
And the object.
Can you feel this space of awareness between and including you,
The observer,
And the object?
Can you feel this space between you?
Tune into this space of awareness between you,
The observer,
And the object.
Now,
Be aware of awareness itself,
That open spaciousness within which this object and you,
The observer,
Arise.
It's almost as if you,
The observer,
And the object dissolve as awareness itself permeates from the background through the foreground as a vast open space.
As you feel into and rest as awareness itself,
Notice how it is all-embracing,
Spacious,
Boundless,
And contentless,
Open to a felt sense of awareness itself prior to any subject,
Object,
Or content of experience.
Notice the subtle qualities of awareness itself,
Clear,
Spacious,
All-embracing.
As you feel into and rest as awareness itself,
Notice how it is all-embracing,
Spacious,
Smile,
A peaceful,
Knowing,
Compassionate smile.
As you realize awareness itself is your essential being,
There is a natural compassion that is present and native to this all-embracing awareness that clings to nothing and pushes nothing away.
Everything is included.
Nothing is separate and substantial on its own.
Everything arises within awareness itself as a play of appearances and experiences.
Now become aware of the space of your body arising within the open spaciousness of awareness itself.
Your body is an open space of experience,
A local space through which awareness itself has experiences.
Be aware of the flow of experience through this open space of your body.
Within the vast open space of awareness itself,
Become aware of the object you were previously focused on as a moment of experience arising within the vast awareness that you are,
Inseparable from the awareness within which it arises.
All contents of experience,
Objects,
Thoughts,
Emotions,
Sensations,
Memories,
Your body,
All beings are like waves arising,
Abiding,
And dissolving,
Flowing through the ocean of awareness,
While the depths of the ocean itself remain undisturbed,
Peaceful,
All-embracing,
And free.
Rest as this felt sense of all-embracing awareness that you are.
Rest as all-embracing awareness.
Live as all-embracing awareness.
Bringing openness,
Peace,
And compassion wherever you go,
To everyone you meet.
