Blazing Light, Love's Song

Trust is a vital ingredient when considering one’s Path. This type of trust is not naive, nor is it a type of blind faith. It is a trust in one’s innate wholeness, and in the innate compass that keeps one true to wholeness. Trust that you are awakening, and that humanity is as well.

We begin a new cycle with this meditation. Three words point us to innate, spacious wholeness: relax, rest, quiet.

This group field knows well the phrase “soften and open.” One knows how to use it, and how to open into the natural softness of present-moment-Awareness. We also know what Presence feels like, and that Presence-Awareness is always present, unaltered, ever clear. It might be background while activities or distractions are foreground, but one can shift that with a breath should one choose.

The new cycle begins with a technique that we have used before. Now, however, the more full meaning of it is offered. Relax, Rest. Quiet.

The last word is not quieten. If one has recognized how naturally relaxed the body, energy, and mind are unto themselves, then one simply rests as that. Being habituated to doing, this might taken some repetition for familiarization. Yet, even in this first session and its exploration, the natural state of pervasive quiet -natural to Awareness itself- is palpable, even if fleeting.

We soften and open.

(This technique is ancient. Awareness is timeless. And, I am a parrot repeating the wisdom of others.)

Sitting with a mindfulness of the physical body can give rise to increasing awareness in a variety of ways:

• appreciation of the body. It truly is amazing!
• a vibrational awareness of the body. One begins to feel the body as a scintillating, vibrational organ, pulsing in the world.
• one might become more aware of the chakras and other features of the esoteric anatomy
• with a genuine focus on the body, one’s mind grounds, settles, softens and opens
• one becomes aware of the many-ness within this seeming unitary-ness of the incarnated form
• and other benefits as well.

As mentioned in previous meditations, becoming aware of how unaware one has been -about anything- is so important. Certainly, one’s body is usually counted among the “usually not noticed” unless there is pain or injury. The body just keeps going and is taken for granted. Thus, mindfulness of the body in the body can be a powerful meditation practice for all the above listed reasons and many more.

Enjoy the meditation!