True Meditation Never Ends

True Meditation Never Ends

 

At today’s session we used a slightly different format. After starting with a centering meditation at 2 pm, we listened to the audio in approximately twelve minute intervals interspersed with the sharing of our experience. At about the midpoint, we paused for a refreshment break and we ended at precisely 4 pm with another meditation.

 

It was a contemplative meditation of Rupert’s that delved into why our bodies create such a sense of separation in all of us—even when we know in our minds that we’re actually the light of pure, infinite awareness. Rupert noted that our bodies are nothing more than sensations that have no depth, no gender and no age. When we rely only on our experience, we see that bodies have no borders and are not dense. He asked us to visualize our breath as an alive, empty, open space that is seeping into the body over its entire surface.

 

In ignorance, when the reality of experience is overlooked, our essential nature of pure knowing seems to acquire the properties that belong to a temporary, solid body– but in understanding, the body takes on the properties that belong to my Self, or pure knowing. Gradually, as we go into it, the feeling of having a solid body dissolves into that pure knowing. That is because the body is made of pure knowing and everything we experience is just a modulation of that knowing.

 

In our sharing we noted the illusory nature of our sense of separation. We saw that in Rupert’s world, empathy is simply the deep knowledge that nothing is wrong. What is happening is just what is happening. We can embrace it and abide in it knowingly and even get to the point of saying we can stay with uncomfortable experiences for the rest of our lives. This sets us free. We are liberated when we rest in awareness and just let life be as it is. And when we are liberated we impact the world in a powerful, mysterious way. This is just as Krishnamurti said it would be.

 

It was a wonderful session!