Aware of Body | Calm the Body

 Loving as We Inter Are  -- Part 1, Emptiness --

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What does it feel like to hold myself in unconditional love and wrapped in compassion?

Objective: To be here and now and lovingly hold yourself.

How Do We Get There?

• • Discourse on the Full Awareness of Breathing

Steps 1. and 2.   In - Out *1

Steps 3. and 4.    Whole Body - Calm *1

• • Mindfulness, Concentration and Insight*

  • Be Kind. Be Gentle. Be Loving.

  • Emptiness: Interbeing

Greeting New People

 Hello and welcome.

Sangha Sharing

What joy, insights, wonderment, questions and moments would you like to share?

Dharma Talk

Unconditional Love

Love is given freely and wholly.  Love is received freely and wholly.  When we hesitate to give or receive love we are not practicing unconditional love.  

Loving freely and wholly begins with loving yourself.  While mindfully breathing and Kindly focusing our concentration upon our breathe, our body, our thoughts and/or our feelings, we put ourselves in a position to Lovingly listen.  With Gentleness, we listen to our breathing, our bodies, our thoughts and feelings.  Breathing mindfully and being aware of our body while listening helps maintain our Gentle listening.  We just listen and our full attention is on hearing.  We are fully present with our breathing, our body, our listening in the here and the now.  This is a beautiful gift you can give yourself.  This is unconditionally Loving yourself.

Compassion

The first Noble Truth is that suffering exists.  No one can escape it.  We all have suffering.

Suffering has a sensational craving to be soothed, transformed and healed.  When we reach for a solution outside of mindful breathing, concentration, insight and compassion, we end up spreading the suffering within us.  The solution may temporarily soothe the suffering but soon we are craving it again.  Its affects are temporary.

Listening Gently, we are able to look deeply into the suffering and see the suffering's core, its origination.  We see suffering that has been passed down through generations, we see suffering from held perceptions that are ready to be matured and moments when we felt unloved in difficult moments.  From insight, we know how to Be Loving so our suffering can transform into a flower that we carry with us every time we walk into a room.

Understanding is compassion.  We understand why it hurts and what it needs to heal.  We can truly be there for our suffering so it can begin to heal and transform.  Simply holding our suffering in a Loving embrace so it can have the space and time to do what it needs to do is a loving act.  This is a very beautiful and wonderful gift you can give yourself.

A Thích Nhất Hạnh talk

The Practice of Mindfulness and Compassion | Dharma Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, 2012.10.14, start at 14:56 and end at 20:02

Collective observations and reflections

We share and listen.

Let's Be Here and Now

Early in the mediation, it's important to generate and be aware of your happiness.  

• Be aware of the wonder of life.  

• Offering yourself a Smile. 

• Appreciate how much time has passed since the beginning of the Earth until this moment.  Wow, you're here!

• You are responsible to know the way / approach to generate your happiness.

Review the gathas prior.

14 minutes with bells at 2 mins.   |  21 minutes with bells at 3 mins.

Deep-Slow

Be sure to recognize moments of enjoying your breath.  Smile

Calming my body - Easing Tension in my body

Calm - Ease

Appreciate and Enjoy your body and what it offers you.

Smiling to my thoughts - Releasing my thoughts

Smile - Release

Aware of Self - Wrapping Love Around Myself

The intent here is to generate a loving feeling.  Feel your heart swell with each wrap.

Aware of my Body - Unconditionally Loving my Entire Body

If you're doing this correctly, you'll feel love easily flowing everywhere within the body and breath.  If you feel a blockage, 

then breathe in that area - breathe out an offering smile to that area.  

The unconditional love will be flow in.

Aware of my Body - Offer and Accept Compassionate Understanding to your Body.

This is a very loving act as forgiveness is offered in the compassionate understanding.   When you offer then accept this the compassionate understanding that we're human, that suffering exists and it's okay that it's there, the offered and accepted love transforms us.  Heals us.  We have a new flower from which we will always carry within us.

Just Be Here

Collective observations and reflections

We share and listen.

Homework

Please do this mediation a few more times by yourself we do Part 2.  

Remember, explore, be playful, be curious, have wonderment and discover.  This is a conversation with yourself. : )