Non-Attachment Meditation (being W/ Impermanence)

All right,

Welcome back to another practice.

Find your seat or maybe you'd like to take a few minutes and just kind of bring some movement into your body.

Gets the breath moving in your body a little bit if you've kind of been sitting all day and then after those few minutes and after you feel a little bit more awake and alive,

Then come back,

Press play.

And let's continue.

So doing your best you can to find that comfortable seat.

Begin to find your breath nice and easy,

Smooth,

Gentle.

Nice,

Easy,

Soft flow of breath,

A deep capacity of breath.

Let's make the breath a little bit bigger.

Inhale really big.

Little more.

Deep,

Wide,

Broad breath and then fill that to the top.

Let it go.

For breathing,

This was a great way to start calming down the mind and the body.

So we can sit more presently in this present moment.

So let's take a few more deep breaths in and out.

So we can sit more presently in this present moment.

Let's just do a few rounds of the box breath,

Just as a review,

Or maybe if you haven't been doing,

Haven't done this one before,

Just follow along.

And so just helps to relax the mind and the body a little bit deeper.

And we'll start with an exhale,

Let it go.

Let's exhale through the nose.

Or if you can't breathe through the nose,

Exhale out the mouth.

It's all good.

Let's take an inhale through the nose for five seconds,

4,

3,

2,

1.

We're going to hold that breath for 5,

4,

3,

2,

1.

Exhale,

Let it go for 5,

4,

3,

2,

1.

Stay empty,

No breath,

5.

Repeat big belly breath in 5.

Hold nice and easy that breath,

Stay gentle in the soft,

In the face,

The jaw,

The shoulders,

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1.

Exhale,

Let it go out 5.

Stay empty,

No breath 5,

4,

3,

2,

1.

Let's do two more rounds in 5.

I messed that one up.

Okay,

Stay empty,

Empty,

Empty.

Let's repeat inhale for 5.

Hold that breath for 5,

4,

3,

2,

1.

Exhale out 5.

Empty,

No breath 5.

One more time in 5.

Hold it.

Exhale out 5.

Stay empty,

No breath 5.

Good.

Exhale out 5.

Hold it.

Exhale out 5.

Hold it.

Stay empty,

No breath 5.

Good.

And then let go and just come back to a few normal breaths.

Go nice and easy and drop a little bit deeper.

Just get into the flow of the breath and open up an ear to start.

Let's,

Let me give you a little something I wrote about impermanence,

You know,

Permanence,

Noticing the ever changing world around you.

Why is this critical?

Getting to know your mind and your body.

It's changing all the time,

We can work with physical awareness,

Sensations that gain greater insight and how the world is,

How the how our bodies are,

You know,

It's just our bodies are just another part of nature with the same natural ingredients and organization.

The one thing that is constant in this physical world is change,

Also known as impermanence.

We can use this constant to develop greater awareness.

Everything is changing all the time.

And life is easier when we flow with it instead of fighting the current and living with the delusion of control,

Or yearning for yearning for an experience of how the world should be.

These efforts are futile,

It's a waste of energy and time.

When we learn and practice detaching from our egos idea of how the world should be,

We stop suffering,

Our emotional turmoil on the inside starts to dissolve,

We become present to the current circumstances as they are.

The mind will always be trying to disorient us into false realities and fictions.

We practice to reorient ourselves into the here and now with life as it is inside and out.

We learn that attachment is the source of our problems.

And here we learn and practice detachment,

Letting go,

Being with life as it is.

I know the truth of reality might be difficult to accept.

It's just,

It's from this universal truth that we can take the next step to meet life where it is and how it is.

From this more calm place,

Just for the next few moments here,

Just listen for sound,

Just simply listening for sound in the environment as it is.

Not trying to change it,

Not trying to figure it out,

Not criticizing it,

Just being with everything,

With the what is.

Maybe you hear voices or traffic or birds,

Depending where you are.

And notice how sound appears and then it's gone.

Maybe there's a moment of silence,

Which is still kind of sound in some way,

And then something else appears and then it goes away.

And then you're back in the present moment,

And you're there,

And then something else appears,

And then it goes away.

Simply listening for sound.

You know,

Really attached to those ears instead of attaching to your mind.

Just keep coming back to simply focusing on sound.

You don't have to get lost in a thought,

You can always take a few hard breaths.

Just to kind of wake yourself up to this moment,

Wake your body up a little bit more,

You can even hear that breath as you pull it in the nose and exhale through the nose and give yourself a couple more of those.

One more if you need it.

Come back and let's take a few more moments and just listen for sound.

Maybe you can get into more of the subtle sounds in the environment,

Like maybe the humming of your refrigerator or something less noticeable.

And curiosity is kind of a natural agent,

Curious agent.

So let it do its work on its own.

Just simply be present to sound.

Let's take that awareness and go on the inside and just start to feel your heartbeat in your chest.

If it's helpful,

You can bring one of your hands and put it across your heart and just feel the your forever heartbeat just slowly.

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Boom,

Boom,

Boom,

And just being with that as it is,

Notice even a little fluctuations if you can,

In your beating heart.

Notice the change or the variability in the heart.

Just sit there and just be with it.

Just observe.

Just be the witness,

You know,

Orient your awareness to your heart.

Notice the energy of your mind trying to be like,

Hey,

What about me and just come back,

Feel your heartbeat.

Just focus your energy.

Focus your mind.

Focus on your heart.

Take a little further.

Maybe you can feel that pulse like in your shoulder armpit or down in your forearms or maybe in your pelvis or down in your chest.

Maybe you can feel that pulse in your heart.

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You know,

Just try to pick up slowly,

Easily.

Just be the curiosity that you are.

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