TO BE or NOT TO BE

TO BE or NOT TO BE

It's a question that we are blessed to be asking ourselves....

It's a choice that only you can make.  

It's an awareness that creeps in 

with practice and inquiry.

      

To Be has nothing to do with who your ego thinks it is, what you've accomplished, what you own, what's happening in your relationships, what your kids or parents are doing or have done, what your day was like, what you want your day to be like, where your going on your next vacation, what pains you have in your body, what emotions have been stirring, what your mind is telling you it is.

To Be simply is  a state of awareness that is available each moment, as our day unfolds.  Simple to Be, is a gift you can offer yourself and others, 

To Be.....

the only route into Sanity! 

The only route into Peace! 

The only route into R E A L I T Y...

TO BE

  How can I learn to simply just BE?

  

Well, it's one of those things that's really easy, and really hard at the same time.  Meaning it can happen spontaneously in the moment, but it often is covered up by so much of your conditioning, mind stuff, and other busy thoughts that it's like being in a room and noticing the space in the room rather than the objects.  

First step is to s t e p back!    Notice,    Realize, and then increase this state of oneness  by practicing and it will seep into your REALITY!

 

 Here's the Practice for this month

  Direct Perception in Fundamental Consciousness:

       With your eyes open, feel that you are inside your whole body at once.  Find the space outside of your body, the space in the room.  Now experience that the space inside and outside your body is the same, continuous space.  It pervades you.  Bring your breath smoothly and evenly through the space.  Experience that the space that pervades your body also pervades the other people and objects in the room, and the walls of the room.  Stay in your whole body as you experience this.

     Experience that all of the sounds that you hear are just occurring in the space without changing the space.  

Experience that the space itself is hearing the sounds.  You do not have to listen in order to hear.  The hearing happens by itself.  You are hearing with your whole body and mind.

     Now allow everything that you see to just be in the space without changing or altering the space.

     Experience that the space that pervades your whole body also pervades your eyes.  Your eyes are made of space.  

     Experience that the space itself is doing the seeing.  The eyes are just lenses.  You do not have to look in order to see.  The seeing happens by itself.  Just receive the visual images.  You are seeing with your whole body and mind.

  

In Zen Buddhism they say, 

"the man sees the mountain, the mountain sees the man".  

Subject and object are both embedded, 

and pervaded by, the same perceptual consciousness.)  

  

Experience the visual stimulus moving through the stillness of fundamental consciousness without disturbing it.

(Your eyes may feel unfocused as they relax.  With practice, they will refocus with better vision.)

     Now experience that everything you hear and everything you see occurs at the same time in the space of fundamental consciousness without your making any effort to hear or see.

  

Meditations from The Self Realization Process, Judith Blackstone. *copyrite

with practice, patience, and perseverance you are awakening~ 

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Lisa Jansen

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