Instructions:🔗

Soft music can greatly enhance your experience of this meditation. Sit comfortably on the floor. Those who cannot sit on the floor may sit on a chair. The head, neck and spine should all be in a straight line.

Step 2 (Duration: 1 minute):

Close your eyes. Breathe deeply. Visualize that you are walking into a dense forest. You are walking into the densest part of the forest.

Step 3 (Duration: 1 minute):

Visualize that you enter a deep, dark cave. You cannot see anything with your eyes. You sit down in the dark cave. You cannot see your own body. Except for your own feeling of being there, you have no other identification. How much ever you try, you are not able to see. In the deep darkness, you can only sense by touch that you are there. You are born from darkness that was in your mother's womb and you dissolve into the same loving, compassionate darkness.

Step 4 (Duration: 5 minutes):

Breathe in deeply the utter darkness that surrounds you everywhere. Breathe in deeply the darkness that has made your identity disappear. Slowly, very slowly, experience your body merging with the darkness.

Step 5 (Duration: 5 minutes): Slowly, very slowly, experience your body becoming the darkness.

Step 6 (Duration: 15 minutes):

With your whole body, breathe in the darkness. With every cell of your body, breathe in the darkness deeply. Begin to feel yourself. Start to feel your whole body with all your senses. Move your body very slowly in the sitting position. Get up and move out of the cave. You are coming out of the dense forest.