How are you feeling You got me Champ?
Hello and welcome.
My name is Paul McCann and this meditation will reconnect you or remind you of your own true nature.
Tibetan Buddhist teacher Mingur Rinpoche explains that if you're determined to think of yourself as limited,
Fearful,
Vulnerable or scarred by past experience,
Know only that you have chosen to do so.
He is saying that yes,
Events in the past may have been traumatizing,
Difficult and challenging.
And the opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available to you.
He states our innate quality,
Our true nature is calm,
Pure,
Like a sky.
So we might have turbulence,
Experience stormy weather,
But the true nature of the sky is still there.
So let's begin by making yourself completely comfortable.
You can be lying down on your bed or on the floor or you could be seated on your meditation cushion or a chair.
Wherever you are,
Just make sure you're completely comfortable.
And when you're ready,
Allow your eyes to close and allow your body to melt into the floor or the bed or whatever is under you.
Take a few moments to scan through your whole body and just notice what is there.
There may be areas of tension,
Tightness,
Of holding,
In the areas of physical tension.
So taking your breath gently into these areas of tension in your body,
Allowing the healing presence of your breath to seep into these areas and allowing a sense of softening,
Of releasing,
Of caring to be there.
This is really effective when done at the end of a long day,
Although it can be used at any time.
So just allowing your attention to gently come into your body.
Your attention flowing on your breath.
As your mind wanders,
Just gently bring it back,
Back to your body,
Back to your breath,
Back to here and now.
Back to here and now.
So now experience the sense of your body as a whole,
Just simply lying or sitting here.
And picture in your mind's eye the image of a lake.
Perhaps it's a lake that you know well.
Maybe a lake that you go from time to time.
Maybe it's your favourite lake that you've seen in a photo.
Just see if you can bring that image into vivid focus.
Notice how it's an extended body of water.
It's being held within the earth's surface.
Perhaps it's being fed by a spring or a stream.
If you watch and observe the lake carefully,
You'll notice that it's always changing and yet it's also always itself.
It changes as the sun moves across the sky.
The light is reflected off the water in different ways.
It changes depending on the weather.
Sometimes on very calm days the surface might be like glass.
It reflects virtually everything with great precision that comes by.
Clouds,
Birds,
The trees that might surround the lake.
The sun as it makes its journey across the sky.
Or even the moon and the stars at night.
So there are times when the lake is extremely reflective and contains in a certain way everything that comes by or over it.
In different periods of time the surface might appear choppy.
It might seem quite pronounced with waves.
In these times the light might sparkle off the waves in different ways.
The lake changes through the seasons.
In the winter,
Depending on its location,
It might actually be frozen over.
Through day and night.
And through the seasons.
Through the years.
The lake is constantly changing but always its own essential nature.
And now see if you can invite the lake to exist within your own body.
As you lay or sit here,
See if your body can become the lake itself.
You can imagine feeling held and embraced as you lie here.
Aware of the many ways in which your own mind is like the surface of the lake.
Sometimes highly reflective.
Sometimes choppy.
Connecting with the sense of the entirety of the lake.
The full body of water.
So not only the surface but also down below.
As you lie or sit here,
Experience the fullness of your own being.
So that even at times when your mind is choppy or upset or reactive or dealing with difficult things,
You can drop down beneath the surface of your own mind's waves and find a stillness.
A calmness that's always there.
That's always available to you.
With each moment.
With each breath.
Every time you sit or lie down in this way.
Lying or sitting here under the canopy of your own vast awareness.
Experiencing the moment to moment changes in your body.
In sensations.
Thoughts.
Feelings.
Impulses.
Sounds.
And all the while,
Lake-like.
Just simply lying or sitting here.
Watching the play of the weather of your mind and body.
Allowing your awareness to hold it all.
Moment by moment.
Breath by breath.
In your own fullness.
In your own completeness.
In your own fullness.
Moment by moment.
Resting now in the safety of this peace.
In your own fullness.
In your own fullness.
In your own fullness.
In your own fullness.
