Breath (A Guided Meditation)

Channel: Simply Always Awake

Transcript

Language: English (original, Whisper AI)

[0:18] The breath is always a good entry point because it's always with us.

[0:38] It's the source of life for this body-mind, and it's where we endlessly are reminded on

[0:52] the physiologic level, molecular level, that we're not apart from anything in our environment.

[1:04] We become part of the environment, and we give ourself or part of ourself to the environment

[1:10] with every breath.

[1:19] It is an act of surrender.

[1:35] By attuning to the natural movement of the breath, not trying to control it.

[1:50] Not expecting it to give us something more than it already gives, but simply acknowledging,

[2:02] experiencing, inhabiting the movement of air in and out.

[2:28] It's a miracle that we overlook frequently.

[2:35] The miracle of breath, the cadence of aliveness in this form.

[2:55] And yet a moment of acknowledgement brings us right back.

[3:09] For some, it may seem uninteresting or not seem like such a natural practice.

[3:20] For others, it's very intimate, natural, this practice of acknowledging breath.

[3:39] Either way, there's something to be learned from this act, the act of surrender to one breath.

[4:02] And it's teaching us, or reminding us, of the sequence, of the

[4:19] of life, of death, of coming, and of going.

[4:48] If our mind is active, if our mind is active, we have questions about how to practice with the breath, that's okay.

[5:05] The mind activity is just doing its thing.

[5:14] It is also sustained by the breath.

[5:20] Without breath, we would be without consciousness shortly.

[5:39] So if we notice mental activity, we might be able to discern a certain cadence or rhythm.

[5:56] The mind of the substance of thought, the waves of becoming, the waves of becoming alert and conscious and subsiding into the potentiality of being.

[6:30] This rhythm does not have to follow the breath exactly, but attuning to the rhythm of the movement of consciousness.

[6:50] It teaches us this surrender.

[6:59] Following the contour of the thought as it forms.

[7:06] Or a subtle movement of mind, or a subtle movement of mind that is not even a formed thought.

[7:16] alert enough not to overlook anything, but relaxed enough not to grasp or control the experience.

[7:39] How does consciousness move?

[7:45] How does the substance of being move?

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[7:50] Flex within a sense of need?

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[8:04] Whatever the rhythm.

[8:08] It's the right rhythm.

[8:15] Yes!

[8:15] Why do not matterropy!

[8:16] frequency. It's the correct frequency. The pace can change. It may slow.

[8:50] It may slow to the point of barely moving to where movement touches stillness.

[9:27] When we appreciate, I perceive where movement touches stillness, meaning we don't have to

[9:40] force them together. We just notice a contact point. Where does the natural movement or

[9:50] rhythm of this experience touch an absolute stillness? Something that has never moved, has

[10:05] no need to move. When we find where movement touches stillness, we find the stillness beneath

[10:32] the breath, within the breath. We're reminded of why control is not needed. Because it's

[10:48] perfectly managed. Everything is perfectly managed by itself. There's just enough stillness,

[10:59] and just enough movement. And they're in perfect harmony.

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[11:41] And when we lead ourself here, back here, back to where we never left, back to where

[11:53] nothing stirs, then we know instinctually that movement is not a problem, movement of

[12:10] breath, movement of mind, movement of environment.

[12:22] It's simply an expression of stillness.

[12:32] Everything perceived as an expression of stillness.

[12:55] So we don't have to find stillness, no matter how much movement there is, it's there, it's

[13:03] with us.

[13:07] It is the movement.

[13:22] It can come forward and remind us at any time, this stillness.

[13:28] And it does.

[13:33] It's why we're doing this.

[13:39] It's how we knew to begin to investigate our true nature.

[13:53] The quietest thing in the room is the most potent.

[14:14] It is your source.

[14:15] It is your finality.

[14:28] And it is where no source is needed, where no finality is needed.

[14:36] It's your son.

[14:36] Yes.

[15:02] All right.

[15:06] it is the answer to all questions.

[15:15] Whether I need to meditate and calm the mind and body,

[15:21] whether it's unnecessary.

[15:25] Either way, the stillness permeates all.

[15:47] Whether I feel I need to practice, work hard,

[15:54] or whether my life is one thorough act of surrender.

[16:06] But the distinction is simply a perception.

[16:11] This stillness pervades all of it.

[16:32] In the afternoon, the moment is 배�uta.

[16:32] It is periods only when you see the screen.

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[16:44] Thank you.

[18:09] The peace, the flow, the samadhi.

[18:25] It is also the tightness, frustration, emotional pain.

[18:55] Nothing is excluded.

[18:57] Nothing is abandoned.

[19:30] Nothing is excluded.

[19:54] The stillness is the silence, and it's the sound.

[20:07] It's where the silence meets the sound, and where the sound meets the silence.

[20:19] On all sides, in every aspect.

[20:34] Outside and inside.

[20:39] The silence fades between.

[20:45] The silence.

[20:58] This period falls apart.

[20:58] By the distance.

[20:59] The silence, the silence.

[20:59] The silence.

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[21:20] Can you let the sound take you when you realize you're the silence that is the sound?

[21:56] Can you let the sound take you when you realize you're the silence?

[22:03] When we don't differentiate sound and silence?

[22:10] When we don't differentiate self and sound?

[22:20] Then struggle is over.

[22:25] There's no pushing or pulling.

[22:28] Because pushing and pulling is the sound.

[22:32] It is the silence.

[22:36] It is self and other.

[22:37] It is the silence.

[23:38] With eyes closed or open, we perceive the shades, forms, points of light, grays and

[23:56] browns, whatever is there in the visual, the stillness and the movement.

[24:38] It is neither inside nor outside.

[24:55] Just what is seen without labels, without distance.

[25:11] Without object or subject.

[25:41] Just the scene.

[25:53] It is more like an abstract painting than a three-dimensional field.

[26:02] Is it coming or is it going?

[26:12] Is it on the inside?

[26:14] Is it on the outside?

[26:29] Is it illuminated?

[26:32] Is it dark?

[26:48] Is the illumination coming from somewhere?

[26:57] Or is it self-illuminating?

[27:09] What if there is no body, just illumination?

[27:24] What if there is no perceiver of illumination?

[27:32] What if there is no receiver of illumination?

[27:56] What is illuminated now?

[28:02] What is not illuminated now?

[28:05] What is

[28:46] You don't try to imagine light

[28:50] or find illumination.

[28:56] Rather, just notice

[28:59] the illuminating nature of experience itself.

[29:06] It's what makes it experienceable.

[29:10] What makes it appear.

[29:14] Appearance and illumination.

[29:17] Illumination and appearance.

[29:21] And nothing else.

[29:42] I think the difference is how you see it.

[29:42] I can't believe it.

[29:43] And what I mean,

[29:43] I can't believe it.

[29:46] And before that,

[29:46] but I don't believe it.

[29:46] It's painful.

[29:54] Thank you.