Guided meditation on breathing and inner space

Please sit in a comfortable position, relaxed but still upright

And please CLOSE YOUR EYES some of you may feel a bit uncomfortable when we sit togther like this, with eyes closed. Usually we want to check with our eyes what's happening around us and id we can feel safe. So it does take a bit of courage and trusting to stay with eyes closed and it needs a clear inner determination, so please do take responsibility for yourself in this and support others as well. (stay with eyes closed).

Why do we sit with eyes closed in meditation?

If i close my eyes, its much easier to direct my attention inwards and to stay there. It's easier to sense into the body; and it is very peaceful, not to have to lok around outside, just to be aware of what is happening iniside, in this moment....

So right now, can you feel you body breathing?

Take a deep in breath silently- and then let the breath flow quietly and fully, without forcing anything. Just allow breathing to happen naturally, and allow your body to relax with it. What a relief to allow everytyhing to let go....

As you do this, your awareness of the inner space begins to wake up: just notice how the inner space is filling when you breathe in ... And notice when it starts to breathe out... releasing the air... feel how your inner space gently gets filled and emptied, is expanding and contracting... Establishing your awareness around that area of your body where you can feel expanding and contracting. Stay there for a few breaths....

Your awareness is like space: Everything you can be aware of, is happening within this spacious awareness like now, you sensations of breathing in, breathing out, body expanding and contracting.

Sense impressions arise in this space. Like clouds in the sky they come and go. And your awareness is like the blue sky, in which everything floats.

The sky is much bigger than the clouds. The clouds are changing. The blue sky is always the same, vast space. That is awareness

It is always there, even when the clouds are so thikc that you may not notice the blue sky. But everything is just happening in this vast sky, in this vast spacious awareness, which is your awareness.

Imagine (inside , in your mind) how we are sitting all in the marquee (room) nopw. Where does this imagination happen?

Does it happen inside your awareness or outside it?

And: can you feel your buttocks, touching the ground?

Where does that sensastion arise inside or outisde of your awareness space?

Can you imagine that the whole world of you sensations, feeling, even thoughts, is arising out of this vast spacious awareness? - your awareness is embracing it all!

Like the blue sky, in which clouds are appearing and changing and dissapearing again

That is the non-sense, the awareness which embraces all senses, the spacious awareness in which you sense experience, your experience of the world, arises and ceases.

That is the knowing

Bell

You can open your eyes -

so the sound of the bell does it arise within your awareness or outside of it.

Where do you actually hear it?

Would you be able to hear thesound if the sound would nopt be inside your space of awareness?

Bell

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