Welcome,
Welcoming yourself into this moment,
In this breath,
In this body,
Whatever that looks like for you,
Whatever it is that supports you to be here in this moment,
Alert,
Aware,
Receptive to what's alive right here,
Right now.
An invitation to this aware breath,
Welcoming it into the body,
Letting it soak,
Sink through the body,
Down into the place of contact,
Connection with the earth.
There's no boundary that this awareness does not span,
There's no border that this awareness cannot cross.
This awareness,
This presence,
This is the essence,
Fundamental ground on which all of our experiences appear.
It is the fabric out of which experience is cut.
It's always already here.
It is the background,
Giving rise to the foreground.
It is this breath,
This body,
These sounds,
And it is the emptiness,
The boundless void in which they appear.
This is the divine ground of being.
There are the appearance of forms,
Of distinct shapes in our experience of the body and the breath,
Sensation,
Sound.
There are beginnings and there are endings.
And all of this is included in this wide open field of being.
Nothing is excluded.
Everything is here.
Resting in the divine ground of being.
Resting in and as this divine ground of being.
And this divine ground has no shape,
No form,
And therefore can include all shapes,
All forms,
Even the sense,
The felt sense of being a separate individual,
Consciousness of separation.
That too is included.
That too is invited to taste boundless potentiality,
Seamless openness,
The divine ground of your very being.
And there can be sensations and experiences that feel comfortable,
And ones that feel uncomfortable,
And ones that feel neither.
And there is this ground,
This divine ground beyond both comfort and discomfort,
That holds and includes and welcomes all of it,
Sees it all equally,
Just as it is.
And that sense that you are separate from this divine ground,
That too is included.
All is welcome here.
There's nothing to be done,
For it's already done.
This is already complete,
Just as it is.
You are already this divine ground of being.
And an invitation now just to notice the breath and the body once more,
And the seamless sense of holding that this divine ground offers.
The distinction between density of sensation and the emptiness of this divine ground are two aspects that are the continuum of the same quality.
The same divine ground of being,
This formless form,
Emptiness dancing,
This visceral void,
This eminent open,
Empty fullness.
There's nothing to get here,
Nowhere to arrive at.
These words are just pointing to this very ordinary reality that is your nature.
This is already the case.
This is the divine ground of your being,
Which in turn is no different to the divine ground of being that we all share,
That we all already are.
And this is it,
Just as it is.
And to finish,
As we come into the last few moments together,
An invitation to gently move perhaps your fingertips and toes,
And eventually including more of the small muscles of the body.
And in time,
Finding your way into an even more comfortable posture,
To really relish the peace,
The openness that has become accessible through this practice.
Receiving the blessings of this practice,
Opening to gratitude for this divine breath,
This divine body,
This divine ground.
A gentle invitation to surrender,
Release yourself into this field of divine potentiality,
Divine transformation,
This divine ground of being,
Where anything is possible.
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