~ an Open Awareness Meditation ~
When our awareness is awake and open, we naturally respond to this changing life with warmth, tenderness and love.
This practice helps us discover the spaciousness of awareness by realizing the space and aliveness that is in the body, and then sensing the continuous space that holds all life. We then sense how this continuous space is filled with the light of awareness and pervaded by love. Includes a short talk that contexts the meditation. (from the Spring 2018 IMCW 7-day Silent Retreat)
Closing quote is from The Radiance Sutras, Lorin Roche, PhD. (below video)
There is a place in the heart where everything meets.
Go there if you want to find me.
Mind, senses, soul, eternity, all are there.
Are you there?Enter the bowl of vastness that is the heart.
Give yourself to it with total abandon.Quiet ecstasy is there –
and a steady, regal sense of resting in a perfect spot.
Once you know the way
the nature of attention will call you
to return, again and again,
and be saturated with knowing,
“I belong here, I am at home here.”
More Open Awareness Meditations here.
Photo credits: Donna JS Russo Dogfish Art
