INSTRUCTIONS🔗

Sit in meditation with eyes closed. Be aware of all that is in you and outside you.

Start with yourself. Be aware of your body, your mind, your thoughts, your breathing, your feelings. Include them all in yourself. Remain unfocused, flowing. Be aware of your breath. Be aware of the fluid form of your body. Your body is not as rigid as you think!

When your eyes are closed, you will become aware that your body subtly

Often, we notice this in an unconscious way. When you are in a hostile environment, when you are afraid, feeling separate and isolated, you get a shrinking feeling. When you are joyful, loving, flowing, you feel as if you are filling the whole room. When you are inclusive, you can feel yourself expanding.

Include everything in your Being. Don't say, I am Not. Instead, say, I am. Slowly, you will start to feel that there is no center in you. With no center, where can the ego stay fixed? The ego needs the sense of separateness. In all-inclusiveness, where is the place for the ego?

With the ego gone, only consciousness remains. Consciousness that extends to include the sky, which becomes part of you. It includes the sunrise, which is happening in you. The smell of the morning, which is also you. You find that the breeze is blowing within you. The trees and the rocks, even the stars that you cannot see, are all within you!

It is a tremendous experience. Unless you experience it, how will you understand the interconnectedness of everything? Your boundary has always been so small – now it expands to include the whole of Existence!

ANTARA DHYANA