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Chapter 1: What is the Inner Room and how can it help with meditation?
Welcome back. Today, we're going to move once again into the consideration of that inner space, the inner room of meditation.
Chapter 2: How can breath be used as a tool for grounding in meditation?
Many of the traditions picture this as a space or sanctuary within our heart, in the very center of our being, a place of perfect stillness and equanimity, a place of perfect contact with the divine. For most of us, most of our day is spent living in a very different place. A place of reactivity.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of ritual gestures in meditation practice?
Maybe even a place of stress. But it's important for us to know that at the centre of our being, there is a space of peace, quiet and calm. A place of absolute stillness.
Chapter 4: How can breathing in peace and breathing out tension transform your experience?
A place of perfect, pure attention. And if we wish...
Chapter 5: What does it mean to travel inward to find calm and stillness?
And if we practice, we can begin to dwell from there more often. So let's begin. Choosing this time of meditation, we once again come to sit in stability and in awareness. We take the time to make a ritual gesture, perhaps a bow or the lighting of a candle, the joining of our hands in a prayer position or the sign of the cross, whatever is suitable for us.
We do this to signal to our being that we are stepping into a different space just for a few moments.
Chapter 6: How do we recognize and let go of distractions during meditation?
It is a reminder to the totality of our being that this time is different. This time is a time of stillness and peace. Taking our seat, we do so gently, with the fullness of our presence, allowing a posture that lengthens the spine, opens the breath, Grounds the feet upon the floor. Drops the shoulders away from points of tension or pain.
Chapter 7: What intentions can we set for the rest of the day after meditation?
Relaxes the face. Closes the eyes or lowers the gaze. All of these little steps allowing us to slowly come into contact with ourselves, with our breath and with the present moment. Coming into that contact with the breath now. We allow the breath to be an anchor. An anchor that holds us secure in the present moment. Feeling the breath rise and fall. Come and go.
Aware of the breath as the rhythm of life itself within us. a gift given at the first moment after we were born, a gift that we will return the moment before we leave this world, a gift that we are using now in this precious present moment. And as we breathe out, we breathe out all tension, all stress, all anxiety, As we breathe in, we breathe in peace, warmth, calm, even healing.
Breathing out, particularly through any point of tension or sickness or old injury that's in the body. Breathing in, we breathe in a breath of restoration, peace and stillness. And as we breathe in, we follow our breath now to the very center of the breath cycle. To that little point where the in-breath becomes the out-breath. Where the out-breath becomes the in-breath.
The point of balance at the very center of the cycle of breath. A point of absolute awareness and stillness. or even the breath just for the tiniest moment, comes to stillness, comes to peace. We seek that moment in each repetition of the breath cycle, bringing our awareness to bear on that moment. If thoughts arise, we simply notice them and let them go.
If emotional reactions arise, we simply notice them and let them go. If bodily sensations intervene, we simply notice them and let them go. Always returning to the breath and through the breath to the point of stable equanimity between the in-breath and the out-breath. between the out-breath and the in-breath.
As we breathe gently, calmly, quietly even, we follow the breath now not just to the point of stability between the in- and out-breath, but to the very center of that moment.
to the very center of our being, to that place of perfect peace, perfect rest, and perfect calm, to that inner sanctuary that exists at the very heart of our being, at the deepest center of who we are, a place of perfect amness, perfect being, resting in the divine attention that holds it in being, resting in a place of infinite and unconditional love, resting in the totality of who I really am.
Resting in the inner room in which the only name I have is the beloved. Resting in this place of perfect peace, perfect equanimity, perfect stillness. This point is the mountain of my own being. And every other experience I have is simply the weather that moves around this mountain. This place is the inner room of my being. And everything else is simply the weather outside the house.
In this place there is only stillness. Only presence. Only love. And I rest in this being. I rest in this presence. I rest in this stillness. I rest in this love. Aware still of the rhythm of breath as I breathe in and breathe out. Aware still of all of the parts of myself that are moving, reacting. The body, the mind, the emotions. But aware of them as temporary, as passing.
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