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11 Beautiful Breathing - The Three Doors of Liberation
How beautiful is the relationship between my in-breathe and out-breathe?
How beautiful is the relationship between my in-breathe and out-breathe?
Welcome to this episode, where we explore the Three Doors of Liberation—Emptiness, Signlessness, and Aimlessness—by experiencing their effortless beauty directly within your own breath. Through the practice of mindful breathing, you'll look deeply at the In-breath and Out-breath to realize their fundamental Inter-being and No Self nature (Emptiness), recognizing that neither breath is more significant (Signlessness). By seeing the breath as a continuous flow that simply changes form rather than being born or dying, you embrace the Ultimate Perspective of No Birth - No Death. This experience reveals that your breath needs no improvement or destination (Aimlessness), grounding you completely in the peace and happiness of the present moment, where the full expression of one breath always creates the other.
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How beautiful is the relationship between my in breathe and out breathe?
Objective: To experience the Three Doors of Liberation while breathing.
Why this is Important
It is important to know how effortless, how beautiful and how natural the three door are to experience.
How Do We Get There?
Discourse on the Full Awareness of Breathing
Steps 1 and 2: In - Out *1
Mindfulness, Concentration and Insight*
Smiles
Emptiness which has the qualities of: Inter-being, Impermanence, No Self and No Birth - No Death
Aimlessness and Signlessness
Experience Breathing
Sangha Sharing
What joy, insights, wonderment, questions and moments would you like to share?
Dharma Talk
A Thích Nhất Hạnh talk
A Joyful Wave, 1 minute
Using the words 'Inter-being' and 'Conditions', How can you summarize the water droplets experience as:
a. birth and death
b. no birth and no death?
Nothing dies and simply disappears. Conditions change and something else is manifested, for the moment.
A Breath
The Parts
Inhale --> momentary rest --> Exhale --> momentary rest
Birth and Death
The in-breath is born, expands our chest and dies.
The out-breath is born, our shoulders fall and dies.
Emptiness
Interbeing: Discuss how the in and out breaths experience interbeing.
Impermanence: Note how Impermanence is present.
No Self: Can you find evidence of the in-breath in the out-breath?
No Birth / No Death: From the Ultimate Perspective, a larger view of what is happening, can you think of one word that describes this?
Signlessness
Is either breath more or less significant than the other?
Aimlessness
When breathing in the moment, does you breath need to become anything more than it is?
Thinking Versus Experiencing
When we learn something new or have a new experience it is abstract. All newness is abstraction. It is not until we experience it again and again does the abstraction become concrete. Then our definitions bloom from our understanding of the experience.
If understanding happens outside of having the experience, sometimes the definitions we held don't match the experience and it can be confusing. If this happens, this is wonderful. You are beginning to expand your awareness so your definitions and your experience can merge.
You can rest in the experienced abstraction. Thay says you are doing it right if you experience peace and happiness. If you also experience wonderment and gratitude, you are doing it right. If you experience a deep and freeing connectedness, you are doing it right. If you are experiencing a freedom because you need nothing more, you are doing it right. If you experience how the flower is as beautiful as the pebble in the mud, you are doing it right. Peace and happiness are your grounding touchstones.
To meditate is to experience.
We know have some definitions for emptiness and its qualities. We can see the No Birth / No Death as life changes form over time in a meadow. We can also see how a frog is interdependent on its food web.
However, HOWEVER, what is it like to experience No Birth / No Death or Interbeing?
How will the experiences match our definitions? : ) ...this is so exciting.
Let's Joyfully Explore with Curiosity and Wonderment
A 20 minute meditation with bells a 2 minutes. Meditation's Audio.
Look deeply upon your in breathe and your out breathe.
Deep - Slow
Calm - Ease
Focus on your in breathe and your out breathe.
Because I have one - I have the other
(Starting with your out breathe) - Because I have one
I have the other -
Smile to my in breathe - I enjoy the in breathe as it leaves
Smile - Enjoy
I enjoy the empty space being filled - I smile to the emptying space in my lung
Enjoy space being filled - Smile to the emptying space
Enjoy how the full expression of the one - creates the other
full expression - creates the other
As I enjoy my breathing, I notice how my breathe can never be alone as the other is also present. They inter-are.
Never alone - Always Inter-are
Enjoy the beauty of emptiness in my breathing. Always together. Always giving life to each other.
Always together - Giving Life
Collective observations and reflections
We share and listen.
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