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- Guided Meditation: "Mind Like the Sky" - by Jack Kornfield [1 Update]
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Topic: Guided Meditation: "Mind Like the Sky" - by Jack Kornfield
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From: chising@aol.com
Date: Apr 13 10:05AM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/AwakeningHeart/msg/934950973a3e0b7e
MIND LIKE THE SKY
"Develop a mind that is vast like space,
where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant
can appear and disappear
without conflict, struggle, or harm.
Rest in a mind like vast sky."
-- Buddha
Sit comfortably and at ease.
Let your body be at rest and your breath natural.
Close your eyes or sit where you
can gaze softly into the distance.
Take several full breaths and let each release gently.
Allow yourself to be still.
Now shift awareness away from the breath.
Begin to listen to the play of sounds around you.
Notice those that are loud and soft, far and near.
Just listen.
Notice how all sounds arise and vanish
leaving no trace.
Listen for a time in a relaxed, open way.
As you listen, let yourself sense or imagine
that your mind is not limited to your head.
Sense that your mind is expanding to be
like the sky, open, clear, vast like space.
There is no inside or outside.
Let the awareness of your mind extend
in every direction like the sky.
Now the sounds you hear will arise and pass away
in the open space of your own mind.
Relax in this openness and just listen.
Let the sounds that come and go, far and near,
be like clouds in the vast sky of your own awareness.
The play of sounds moves through the sky,
appearing and disappearing without resistance.
As you rest in this open awareness, notice how
thoughts and images also arise and vanish like sounds.
Let the thoughts and images come and go
without struggle or resistance.
Pleasant and unpleasant thoughts, pictures, words, and feelings
move unrestricted in the space of mind.
Problems, possibilities, joys, and sorrows come and go
like clouds in the clear sky of mind.
After a time, let this spacious awareness notice the body.
Become aware of how the sensations of breath and body
float and change in the same open sky of awareness.
The breath breathes itself, it moves like a breeze.
The body is not solid.
It is felt as areas of hardness and softness,
pressure and tingling, warm and cool sensation,
all floating in the space of the mind's awareness.
Let the breath move like a breeze.
Rest in this openness.
Let sensations float and change.
Allow all thoughts and images, feelings and sounds
to come and go like clouds in the clear open space of awareness.
Finally, pay attention to the awareness itself.
Notice how the open space of awareness is naturally
clear, transparent, timeless, without conflict,
allowing all things, but not limited by them.
"O Nobly Born,
remember the pure open sky
of your own true nature.
Return to it.
Trust it.
It is home."
-- Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
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