Breathing In And Out The World
Chapter 19—Breathing In And Out The World
In Attendance – Rick, David & Katherine
Our session today started enthusiastically with happy greetings and warm conversation. After a quiet meditation we delved into today’s chapter—Breathing In And Out The World.
In the audio, Rupert reminded us that when we are lost in experience we can always find our way back to tranquility by moving to the very heart of things—luminous, empty Knowing. We trace our way back in two simple steps—from the known to the Knower, and from the Knower to pure Knowing. Once there, we notice that all distinctions have dissolved. From that space we can notice the way Knowing modulates itself into thinking, sensing and perceiving; seeming, in the process, to become a mind, a body and a world. But this time, if we’re alert, we experience being in a mind, body and world without losing touch with pure Knowing. In other words, we remain awake in our sleepy state.
Rupert teaches us to practice a visualization—breathing in and breathing out—on the inhale we go from the known to the Knower (which contains the folded up world) and on the exhale the light of pure Knowing breathes the world out again. This is the dance in Rupert’s world—where life becomes a flow of breathing in and breathing out, returning again and again from the multiplicity of names and forms to the heart of experience.
He tells us to be knowingly the empty, luminous purity of Knowing and to relate to everyone and everything as that.
Happiness lies within our own Being, then, not anywhere in an apparently objective world. This is exactly what Krisnamurti says, in his own way.
