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Today's meditation we will explore the first four sutras or verses from the Radiant Sutras.
The Radiant Sutras are a translation of an ancient tantric text and this text gives us 112 meditation techniques or experiences.
It's a beautiful book to dive into and to really sit with each one individually is a powerful practice within itself.
The first four sutras talk about and discuss the breath,
Particularly the space between the breath,
The pausing of the breath at the top and at the bottom.
So that's what we will explore together today,
Sitting with that.
I'll read the first four verses and then we will just sit in the experience of that.
If you wish to sit longer than this meditation then just press pause and take as much time as you wish here.
So first get yourself cozy,
Comfortable,
Ensuring that your body is relaxed.
And it can be that you are lying down,
It can be that you are sitting with spine tall.
Perhaps taking one last cleansing exhale to settle into your space even more.
The sutras start off with the goddess asking some questions to her beloved.
She's asking how can she understand the mysteries of this life.
She says lead me into wholeness,
Into knowledge,
Into action,
Into illumined knowing and joyous union.
And she says teach me that I may know it fully,
Realize it deeply and breathe in luminous truth.
And then the one who is intimate to all beings replies,
Beloved your questions require the answers that come through direct living experience.
The way of experience begins with a breath such as the breath you are breathing right now.
Awakening into luminous reality may dawn in the momentary throb between any two breaths.
As the breath is released and flows out,
There is a pulse as it turns to flow in.
And in that turn,
You are empty.
Enter that emptiness as the source of all life.
The breath flows in and just as it turns to flow out,
There is a flash of pure joy.
Life is renewed.
Awaken into that.
Radiant one,
The life essence carries on its play through the pulsing rhythm of outward and inward movement.
This is the ceaseless throb,
The rhythm of life,
Terrifying in its eternity and exquisite in its constancy.
The inhalation,
The return movement of breath sustains life.
The outgoing breath purifies life.
These are the two poles between which respiration goes on unceasingly.
Between them is every delight you could desire.
Even when the senses are turned outward,
Your attention on the external world attend also to that inner throb,
The pulsing of the creative impulse within you.
Enter these turning points where the rhythms of life transform into each other.
Breath flows in,
Filling,
Filling,
Filling,
Then surrenders to flow out again.
And in this moment,
Drink eternity.
Breath flows out,
Emptying,
Emptying,
Emptying,
Offering itself to infinity.
Cherishing these moments,
Mind dissolves into heart and heart dissolves into space.
Body becomes a shimmering field pulsating between fullness and emptiness.
In any quiet moment when you are breathing,
The breath may flow out and pause of itself or flow in and pause of itself.
Here,
Experience opens into exquisite vastness with no beginning and no end.
Embrace this infinity without reservation.
Dive into it.
Drink deeply and emerge renewed.
The first four verses of the Radiant Sutras asking us to witness the turning points of the breath.
The top of the inhale,
That bottom of the exhale,
The pauses where space opens.
And if we dive into that practice,
We lose our sense of time,
Our sense of space.
There feels like there is no beginning and no end.
We move into infinite vastness.
The mind dissolves.
The mind dissolves into heart and the heart dissolves into space.
So sitting now with this meditation on the breath and those spaces between the breaths,
Let yourself dive in.
Drink deeply and you will emerge renewed.
Remember if you wish to sit for longer,
Just press pause.
But we'll sit together for three minutes here.
Relax the body.
Dive into the breath.
Let the mind dissolve.
Returning back to your breath.
A slow and deep inhale.
Filling,
Filling,
Filling.
Pause at the top.
And then a release.
An exhale.
Purifying exhale.
Pause at the bottom.
Just reflecting on your experience,
Your practice.
Thank you so much for your practice today.
Until next time,
Namaste.
Thank you.
