Mom Buddha Love – Deconstructing Your self

Guided Nondual Meditation by Michael W. Taft

Streamed reside on Dec 30, 2021

Okay. So let’s start our meditation. Now as traditional what I’d such as you to do is take your

meditation posture and tonight I’ll simply say, as a substitute of going into all the main points, I’ll simply say; sit up good and straight in a method that feels actually comfy and let the remainder of your complete physique chill out. Okay. Simply sit up good and straight for those who can. Don’t lean your again on the again of a chair however simply sit up permitting your again to carry itself up in a method that feels very nice and permit the entire remainder of your whole physique to easily chill out.

We’re going to do some prolonged leisure kind stuff tonight completely different than traditional, a little bit bit completely different anyway. And as a substitute of claiming, “what I would really like you to do–if you wish to–it’s okay to do that leisure half mendacity in your again,” it’s finest for those who do this along with your knees elevated or a pillow below your knees in order that your decrease again is flat on the ground. Nevertheless you do it, you can even do it in shavasana, you already know corpse pose from yoga or no matter. However we wish to actually kick off this last meditation of the 12 months. We would like individuals to get very, very, very relaxed. And bear in mind the opposite facet of this, apart from the comfort, is staying actual alert. So although you’re getting actual relaxed I don’t need you to get foggy or sleepy. So for those who get foggy or sleepy, open your eyes and even meditate standing up as a result of it’s essential that you just don’t go right into a dream or get drowsy. Regardless of how relaxed we get we wish to keep an actual alert.

Okay. Now that you’re in no matter posture you’re going to take, let’s set our intention and in addition join in with our useful resource. However tonight we’re going to combine connecting with the useful resource to the comfort we’re doing. Okay, so we’re going to do this half collectively. So let’s simply begin with the intention the place you bear in mind why you’re meditating, what’s the aim, why are you doing this in any respect. You would possibly wish to say, “hey, I wish to join with my very own innermost knowledge and compassion and assist to make the world a kinder place,” one thing like that. Who is aware of, however that could be one in every of your motivations a few of your intention on your meditation. So I’ll simply be silent for a second whilst you join in along with your motivation for meditating, no matter that’s.

Okay. Good. Now what we’re gonna do is; I would like you to deliver up a visualization, like we do fairly often in right here, and that is a part of our useful resource constructing, we visualize issues which can be highly effective, useful, transformative issues that assist us in essence get into the proper headspace to do the meditation. Tonight what I’d such as you to visualise–like we do visualize typically–is a gorgeous solar, proper? Just like the solar within the sky. And I would like you to visualise this solar in entrance of you, and it’s very heat in a nice method, not too sizzling very, very nice and in addition extraordinarily lovely, the colour gold of the sunshine is sort of a ghee candle, for those who’ve ever seen the flame of a ghee lamp, not a candle, it’s a ghee lamp, it burns butter, proper? And clarified butter, which is ghee, the colour of that flame is that this very, very beautiful golden hue. And so this solar in entrance of us, this three-dimensional spherical sensible solar has this very, very lovely comfortable golden hue. Okay, so image that now in entrance of you very, very clearly.

And as traditional this solar represents our personal deepest Buddha nature, the truth that we’re all already enlightened bodhisattvas and so we’re going to tackle among the properties however we’re going to essentially dwell on explicit properties. So we’re going to do that in a unique order than regular, okay? So I would like you to first see a ray of sunshine, a gorgeous ray of sunshine coming from this golden solar and hitting you within the decrease stomach, proper? This hara area of your decrease stomach, the decrease dantian. It’s like an vitality spot you possibly can really feel. It’s like a pair inches under your navel and it’s a pair inches inside. It’s very easy to note when you get the sense of–there’s a spot in there that simply appears like a nexus or one thing. And so the vitality coming from the solar this lovely golden vitality is pouring into the decrease stomach and it’s filling you with a way of liveliness, a way of awakeness, a way of play and spontaneity, however primarily simply well being, and energy, and vigor, proper? It’s actually energetic, that is the liveliness spot and so that you’re feeling that vitality pouring into your physique, pouring into your physique making you are feeling energized, awake, wholesome, genki, proper? Prepared for something, bushy-tailed, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed is what this spot does. Okay, so really feel that now, take that in and actually discover that on the in-breath that vitality will get even stronger and on the out-breath it form of suffuses by your physique.

Good. Now whereas that continues to occur, that beam of that ray of sunshine from the solar retains pouring into your decrease stomach, one other beam comes into your brow and you are feeling this ray of sunshine bringing knowledge, and readability, and confidence, proper? It’s bringing knowledge, and readability, and confidence and you are feeling this very strongly, very deeply. It’s fairly clear. It’s fairly clear, you possibly can see that tremendously clearly, and you are feeling the knowledge, you are feeling the boldness. And once more the entire area of the thoughts brightens, and clarifies, proper? So your deepest, wisest, most clever thoughts comes ahead beaming from the solar, the solar of our personal already present enlightened knowledge. And once more we’re feeling that are available in on the in-breath after which suffuse by the entire physique the entire being on the out-breath.

Good. Now that is the half we’re going to essentially concentrate on tonight; a 3rd ray of sunshine comes, the opposite two are nonetheless going, however a 3rd ray of sunshine comes into your coronary heart and it touches you in probably the most delicate, non-public, deepest a part of your coronary heart, proper? The center of hearts as we typically say, proper? In your coronary heart of hearts. And you actually really feel that ray of sunshine from the solar touching you deeply. It’s not hitting the entrance of your chest in an armored method and also you’re form of guarding towards it, no, you’re extensive, extensive, extensive open and the ray of sunshine comes into your chest and begins to fill your coronary heart with kindness, and caring, and compassion, and love and you are feeling very deeply that this solar of enlightened knowledge in entrance of you is beaming a form of full unconditional acceptance to you, proper? It loves you. It needs the very best for you. It sees your highest qualities, your finest qualities, your highest aspirations. It sees solely the very best in you, solely the nice in you. And it’s actually the sunshine from this ray–it’s actually highlighting all the perfect issues inside you. And you actually really feel that love and that acceptance and it’s permitting you to form of glow with a sense of being beloved, and being cared for, and being accepted, and being mothered.

On the in-breath you are feeling your self taking extra of that in. That is like good mothering, proper? It’s not like, no matter–irrespective of how good our human mom has been, they may at all times have their flaws. However that is good mothering. That is Buddha mothering the whole lot excellent, the whole lot unconditional, the whole lot nearly kindness, nearly caring, nearly safety, nearly wanting the very best for you and seeing who you actually are, seeing what you really want and simply filling you up with that sense of being seen, and cared for, and beloved and on every out-breath that simply suffuses your complete being, not solely your complete physique however your complete thoughts, and your complete being, proper? You actually really feel that sense of being tremendously cared for, tremendously seen, completely understood. So really feel that now.

Okay. Good. Now persevering with to permit these three beams of sunshine to return into your physique, into your thoughts, into your being. Let’s start doing our shamatha with an object. We’re going to be meditating on leisure so we’re not–normally we meditate on respiratory whereas permitting the physique to chill out–tonight we’re going to meditate on the comfort itself and the respiratory is a part of it however our predominant focus is the comfort.

Okay, so what I would like you to note right here is that the three beams now converge into one beam, only a beam from the solar of enlightened knowledge that’s nonetheless shining in entrance of you. And this beam of gold and yellow gentle into the guts and that accommodates all of the knowledge stuff from the thoughts and all of the therapeutic vitality stuff from the stomach, but it surely’s primarily the love, and the kindness, and the caring within the coronary heart. And so it’s one huge beam into the guts. Okay and this beam now could be–as a result of it feels so good to really feel so cared for, you can begin to chill out. 

And so I would like you to permit this radiant gentle that’s glowing in your coronary heart now to start to fill your face and head. So the muscle mass of the brow chill out, and the eyes chill out, and really feel them suffusing with this vitality of being cared for, vitality of kindness, vitality of affection, vitality of being understood. Your cheeks, your lips, your chin, your tongue, your scalp, the entire head–even on the within–your complete mind, your complete nasal passages, the whole lot within the head is suffusing with this golden yellow gentle of being beloved, and being cared for and it’s identical to inflicting the whole lot within the head to chill out, and to let go, and to really feel ease, and peace. 

And I would like you to not concentrate on the issues that aren’t letting go, concentrate on the issues which can be letting go, issues that do really feel good, the issues that really feel nice, that really feel relaxed. And the strain simply drains away extra, and extra, and extra, and extra, and extra as you discover clearly that areas of the face and head are feeling extra light, extra relaxed, extra open, extra relaxed, and in addition extra awake. And on the in-breath you are feeling extra of that golden yellow gentle filling the top and inflicting peace, and ease, and openness, and acceptance, and kindness, and like to fill your complete face and head. After which on the on the out-breath, you are feeling that rising stronger, proper? On the out-breath the comfort, the reduction, the openness, the kindness, the love grows even stronger. So let’s simply do this with the top now for a second or two.

Good. Now let’s think about this gentle coming from the solar in entrance of us, the solar of enlightened knowledge beaming into our hearts. And now it’s radiating up and never solely filling the top but it surely’s filling the neck, and the throat, and the shoulders, that complete collar area in entrance and in again, and even all the way in which inside. And all the strain there simply melts like wax melting in a candle, and all of it simply drains away, it drains out. And as a substitute, the neck, and throat, and the shoulders fill with this scrumptious glowing gentle of kindness, and caring, and love, and being accepted, and being understood, and being utterly seen. And so all the strain within the throat, all the strain within the neck, all the strain within the shoulders simply relaxes and drains away. And on the in-breath you are feeling you possibly can even visualize increasingly of this gold and yellow gentle filling the neck, filling the throat, filling the shoulders all the way in which inside. And the whole lot enjoyable increasingly deeply. After which on the out-breath, it lets go much more utterly. 

With every out-breath it relaxes extra completely, it relaxes extra absolutely, it relaxes extra utterly in order that not solely your face and head however now your throat and neck and shoulder area is glowing and releasing within the gentle of this super kindness, love, caring and nurturing. 

Good. Now on the subsequent in-breath the sunshine begins to fill the arms, and palms, and fingers. They’re stuffed, they grow to be yellow radiant daylight. They’re glowing with a radiant peace. All the strain drains away. They grow to be limp like moist noodles they usually fill with golden gentle and all the strain drains away they usually start to really feel leisure. All of the knots in your arms, all of the tightness within the wrists and the palms, all that simply drains away. And as a substitute, your arms and palms and fingers really feel that very touching presence of kindness, of caring, of being seen in a constructive gentle, being nurtured, being cared for. You actually really feel that mothering vitality simply loving up your face, your head, your neck and throat, your shoulders, your arms and your palms. And on the in-breath, much more gentle is available in, and you are feeling extra leisure spreading by the physique, and on the out-breath it will get even stronger in a really nice method. 

This solar of our personal enlightened knowledge is simply beaming this vitality into the guts after which the vitality suffusing the physique, this vitality of affection, this vitality of kindness, this vitality of leisure, and launch, and letting go. Similar to you’re a child within the arms of this bodhisattva mommy, this Buddha mommy, who’s holding you and caring for you as deeply and utterly and completely because it’s attainable to be cared for. So simply let go into that now and spot the way it’s attainable to simply merely drop now right into a a lot deeper place, a a lot deeper leisure, a extra whole letting go, layers of letting go, deeper, proper? Once you simply open up. 

And the beam from that radiant solar of knowledge and love comes extra utterly into your coronary heart. After which on the subsequent in-breath you discover your complete chest area, your complete higher again, even your stomach, and your decrease again area, the entire trunk and torso is suffused with this radiant gentle, this golden gentle of affection and kindness, and all the strain drains away. And you are feeling, on the out-breath, this sort of super letting go of pressure within the physique. You are feeling an amazing sense of affection filling your coronary heart. It’s type love, it’s actually candy, it’s actually caring, it actually sees you, it actually understands you, it actually needs solely the very best for you, and it’s nurturing each little neatest thing about you in each attainable method and the whole lot else simply drains away. And you are feeling the entire trunk of your physique simply releasing and opening, and releasing and opening, and releasing and opening, experiencing a form of mom Buddha love that you just’ve by no means skilled in your whole life earlier than, it’s deeper, and purer, and extra whole, and it permits your complete torso, your arms and palms, your neck, your higher physique, the entire higher physique and the top to simply launch and open, and be full of this radiant gentle of affection and kindness, to be full of this golden glow of well being and pleasure and compassion. 

And once more it’s so candy, and so actual, and deep, and sort, and open that it lets you simply drop much more deeply now, to simply drop now into like a really, very open place the place you’re simply nearly like merely a ray, a physique of golden gentle and increasingly of this golden daylight fills your complete pelvic area, and your legs, and your toes, and your toes. And you are feeling all pressure, all tightness, all discomfort draining out of your legs and toes and toes. And on the in-breath much more daylight of golden love comes into your legs and toes and toes and on the out-breath they grow to be increasingly suffused with this kindness, infused with love, infused with caring, infused with a way the physique is accepted precisely as it’s. All the physique is accepted precisely as it’s. All the emotional physique is accepted precisely as it’s. All the thoughts is accepted and beloved precisely as it’s. The entire, your complete being is beloved and accepted and cared for and even cherished, completely cherished precisely as it’s. 

And the influence of feeling a lot caring, and a lot connectedness, and a lot understanding and a lot kindness simply adjustments your whole being, your complete physique, your thoughts, your feelings, the whole lot right into a physique of radiant golden gentle. And on the in-breath extra golden gentle fills the physique after which the out-breath it grows even stronger and you are feeling any final vestiges of pressure simply draining out of the physique and the entire physique feels prefer it’s made of sunshine. It feels good. It feels energized. It feels relaxed. It appears like the whole lot is simply good within the physique, simply that great feeling of the whole lot being excellent, and beloved, cared for, type. 

And as you refill your fuel tank of affection and kindness and caring, you start to note that your physique of radiant golden gentle is beginning to glow even brighter, beginning to glow even brighter, and on the in-breath it takes in additional gentle, after which on the out-breath it glows brighter, after which on the in-breath it takes in much more gentle from the solar of radiant knowledge in entrance of you, after which within the out breath it glows even brighter. And now, on the subsequent in-breath, the solar of the radiant knowledge in entrance of us really enters us, it is available in and fills our complete physique in order that our radiant physique of golden gentle and this radiant solar of golden gentle are only one golden gentle. So let’s simply breathe with that now for some time collectively, letting this radiant gentle fill our physique after which really radiate out farther from us. Now feeling that love, basking in that kindness, steeping within the caring and loving.

Okay. Good. Now what I would like you to do is discover that this radiant physique of golden gentle centered within the coronary heart is simply effortlessly glowing and spreading this sense of Buddha mom love, kindness, caring, connection out in all instructions. Okay, and I would like you to start to radiate this love and kindness in the direction of–we’re going to start with the individuals proper round us, the individuals in your life closest to you, the people who find themselves your family members, your loved ones, the animals who’re your family members and household, people who find themselves in your internal circle. And I would like you to simply image this radiant golden sweetness and kindness beaming out from you in all instructions and individually see every individual and/or animal or no matter form of being they’re, see them touched by this golden gentle of Buddha love, mom Buddha love, kindness and caring and it makes them tremendously glad. See their faces glad or their tails wagging or no matter. See them as radiant, joyous, wholesome, glad, full of peace and pleasure. 

Okay, so this radiant love of the Buddha coronary heart inside you, the mom Buddha kindness love coronary heart inside you–see it affecting all of the individuals round you and simply hold feeling it in your self. Don’t let this get fraught or tough in any method, simply see it as simply pure you, simply need the very best for them. You simply need them to be glad and wholesome. You simply wish to assist them to thrive. Something that makes them joyous, that’s wholesome and glad, makes you joyous. After which the enjoyment of that radiant love and kindness simply grows and grows, so see all of the family members round you individually changing into completely impacted, completely beloved by this radiant gentle now. Now this radiant scrumptious golden gentle of affection and kindness and caring is so overjoyed at our family members additionally feeling pleasure, feeling love, feeling caring and seeing them glad, seeing/serious about them doing properly, that we glow even brighter much more golden much more loving much more utterly caring and sort, wanting what’s finest for everybody, wanting what’s finest for every being on the planet, seeing them doing their finest and rejoicing in that. And truly taking motion to care for them, to assist them to do even higher. 

In order that our whole physique now will not be physique formed. It’s like a sphere or a globe of yellow gentle centered on the guts, tremendously giant and now we’re the solar of yellow gentle, proper? We’re the solar of this mom Buddha love. And let the solar radiate out now to your complete neighborhood, everybody in your instant neighborhood, all of the animals, all of the beings in your neighborhood. Simply image even all of the crops, even all of the bugs, the whole lot, even the water, and the air, the whole lot turns into more healthy, happier. The radiant kindness of your mom Buddha love fills them with pleasure, fills them with a way of being seen, fills them with a way of kindness and caring, fills them with a way that they’re appreciated for being simply precisely who and what they’re. Simply permit this gentle of your coronary heart, this gentle of the solar, this golden gentle of caring and kindness simply radiate much more brightly, much more powerfully, much more superbly. And permit it to simply soften your thoughts, permit it to simply soften any confusion, any wrestle within the thoughts. 

And your complete thoughts simply additionally turns to radiant gentle so that every one that’s filling the thoughts is photos of beings changing into glad and wholesome full of peace and love and simply stuffed as much as the brim with this sense of nurturing and kindness and caring.

Okay. Good, and now we’re going to go actually extensive. I would like you to note that this sense of affection and kindness and pleasure and feeling cared for that you just’re bathing in and in addition radiating out now spreads to embody the entire world. So each human on the planet, each animal on the planet, each being on the planet, even crops and timber, even the air and water, even the earth, even the sky, permit this radiant love, this kindness, this caring, the sense of actually seeing how tremendously indescribably beneficial every being is, how indescribably treasured every being is and radiating out the sense of caring for them, loving them, actually seeing them for who they are surely and permitting the entire world to simply bask on this radiant kindness of Buddha love. And bear in mind you’re a being on the planet too so that you’re persevering with to simply open increasingly deeply, to be suffused with this love, and your thoughts is simply melted, it’s simply completely melted into radiant glowing yellow gentle of compassion and kindness and caring. 

Good. And now let this loving kindness and caring and exquisite golden gentle unfold out to fill your complete universe and all universes in every single place, bringing kindness caring love compassion to all beings in every single place.

Good. Now discover that within the gentle of this mom Buddha love there’s no boundary wherever, proper? This radiant gentle of mom Buddha love pervades all area. Nothing can block it. It radiates in every single place. After which additionally discover that this radiant golden gentle of Buddha love, Buddha compassion, Buddha caring has been right here since beginningless time and might be right here eternally. It didn’t begin wherever. It’s going to by no means finish. It’s merely eternally current and current in every single place.

Good. After which discover that this gentle of Buddha kindness is current in every single place and subsequently doesn’t actually have a middle, although it felt prefer it’s radiating from our coronary heart, it’s really positioned in every single place and radiating by your complete universe and so it doesn’t actually actually have a middle, or let’s imagine in every single place together with our coronary heart is the middle.

Good. And see that your thoughts is melted and opened into golden gentle. All ideas, all imaginings, all feelings, all sense of character, even the sense of doing something is simply dissolved into golden gentle. And this golden gentle may be very comfortable, very light and spot that this golden gentle is current in every single place and on the identical time a single level of it’s glowing extremely brightly within the middle of your being, a single level of sunshine glowing in an enormous area of consciousness. This gentle is pristine, this gentle is ideal, this gentle is gorgeous, it’s type, it’s loving, it’s caring, it’s clever, it’s clear, it’s full of life, it’s full of vitality, it’s full of playfulness and spontaneity.

Simply be with that gentle now, be that gentle now. And now noticing that even that gentle itself is in some methods empty and but there. Similar to ideas and emotions are empty however there. Persona, the physique, it’s empty however there. Time and area, the world round you, individuals, beings empty however there. There’s an actual sense of connectedness with the whole lot. No boundary between ourselves and anything, an actual sense of the the Aristocracy and dignity of each being, nearly indescribable preciousness of each being and even of the world itself, of water, air, sky, of mountains and timber, of the land. Actually really feel that now and on the identical time really feel its dreamlike high quality, its super ephemerality as we deliver this last meditation of the 12 months to an in depth.

Let’s simply spend a second dedicating ourselves to appreciating our life, appreciating all the opposite beings in our life, appreciating the world, the actual fact that there’s a world to be in. Appreciating all of the beings, appreciating all that we have now and actually feeling that now. After which we will deliver the meditation to an in depth very gently, nonetheless feeling relaxed, nonetheless feeling open, feeling suffused with love and kindness and caring and permitting your physique to maneuver and stretch and really feel good. The physique likes to maneuver. Permit the physique to maneuver. Perhaps have a drink of water.

Dharma Discuss

And so what I’d love to do tonight is as a substitute of—the meditation was its personal educating—as a substitute of simply repeating the whole lot I mentioned within the meditation or having you ask questions, as a substitute what I’d love to do tonight is have everybody who’s nonetheless with us, all 32 of you on this expertise tonight I’d such as you within the chat window to bless everybody, simply discuss your love and your kindness and caring for everybody on the planet. So every individual as a result of if we may do it and go round separately in a room we’d say please you already know converse of your love and your pleasure and your blessing for the world however as a substitute I’d identical to you to kind it within the chat window every one in every of you. After which we’ll all simply learn these collectively. Okay so please go forward. And it doesn’t need to be lengthy. It simply needs to be heartfelt. This isn’t about being articulate or being poetic it’s merely about talking from the guts, talking fact from the guts and for those who’re watching this video doing this guided meditation later, even years later please within the remark window make a remark about kindness and caring for different beings, all the opposite beings within the meditation, all the opposite beings on the planet, the world itself. Simply share with us some heartfelt blessing now.

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