So,
Let's start now.
CHIMESBo Region Eyes closed or partially closed.
A jaw loose.
Perhaps breathing through the mouth.
A small aperture with the lips.
And scanning through the body for any other unconscious tension that you can make conscious.
If there is a quality you would like to call into this session,
Giving rise to that invitation.
It's something like planting a mind seed that can arise when it's needed.
And if you're aware on being pulled on by something in the past or the future,
Cutting of the soul cord,
Ritual if you wish.
And it's important that we bow before we cut.
Perhaps a better image is unplugging,
Like removing an octopus tentacle from your body.
And then perhaps the foundation of all meditation practice,
Welcoming.
You don't necessarily need to analyze what's going on and look for non-acceptance.
But just check out if there's any of those little battles we get into with the thing we don't like.
Making contact with the sensation of sleep.
Inviting sleep in turning.
Sleeps disconnection from the outside world.
And connecting with the sensation of this innerness.
Softening the brain.
You may find it drips down,
Flows into other areas of the body.
Letting it be larger than behind the eyes.
And nestling into this,
This innerness.
In a condition of surrender and yet sensitive.
This innerness,
In one way or another,
Is lively.
Letting awareness be sensitive to these textures,
These qualities.
Connecting with what is there,
Whatever may be there.
Sometimes by this point in a retreat,
People are hearing a whispery,
Silvery voice of space.
So folding that into this innerness.
And perhaps finding some other anchor point.
The rhythm of the heartbeat.
And breath.
Sifting more and more into the mode of letting go.
Meanwhile,
The wisdom mind is awake.
Detecting when attention drifts away.
Detecting imbalance of effort.
Too much,
Too much trying.
Too much sleep.
Indifferent to the coming and going of thought and image and emotion too.
Being like an empty hall.
Letting thought and image have their natural passage.
Letting thought and image have their natural passage.
The shapelessness of the body.
The fuzzy edges.
The way the space of the room and the space of the body are a continuum.
This inner space and the space of the room.
Sustaining contact.
The shapelessness of the body.
The shapelessness of the body.
The presence of the edges.
The fuzziness.
The way this inner energy is not contained.
Catching,
Catching the ways you pop out a little sooner.
The way this inner energy is not contained.
We may intuit that looking at the experience is a barrier.
Going from looking at being the experience is helped by inhabiting the whole body.
There is a pleasure available when we're not grasping.
Just like there's the pleasure of partially letting sleep infuse.
Be in contact with these pleasures.
Letting the exhalation be complete.
In the innerness.
Feeling its own shapelessness.
Its own size-lessness.
The boundary.
The way this inner energy is not contained.
