Aware of Body | Calm the Body

13 Loving as We Inter-Are | Signlessness

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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

  • Signlessness

Greeting New People

 Hello and welcome.

Sangha Sharing

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

Dharma Talk

Let's See with the Eyes of Signlessness

"By the way, you have to remember that 70% of our body is made of cloud."  Signlessness: A Cloud Never Dies | Thich Nhat Hanh

With the same perspective, we hold the sun's energy.  The sun nourished the plants and the plants us.  The sun's energy hasn't disappeared.  It is stored in chemical bonds within the plant.  We eat those greens and our digestive system breaks those chemical bond's releasing the sun's energy within us.  

We have the wind within us.  We breath in the wind's oxygen.  The plants breath in the wind's carbon dioxide and build carbohydrates which we consume.

Within us we are sun, clouds, wind, mountains and more.

A Thích Nhất Hạnh talk

Signlessness: A Cloud Never Dies | Thich Nhat Hanh, continue to about 5:43.  

Collective observations and reflections

We share and listen.

Expanding our Definition of Self

We inter-are with the sun, the wind, the clouds, the Earth.  Without interbeing, we could not be.  If you look deeply, you can find elements of each in the other.  Let's breath and experience the peace of interbeing. 

As with the previous meditation, we will practice unconditional love and compassion.  With unconditional love, freely let your breathing love flow into the broader you, the wind, the clouds and the Earth.  As you breathe in, fully open yourself to the returning flow of love.  If you feel a restriction of love's flow, smile with compassion to the restriction.  "Hello, My Darling," just as Thay says in his videos, "I am here for you. "  

Let's Interbe in the 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.

16 minutes with bells at 2 mins.   |  24 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.

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 Love in me - Let the love flow into the Earth

Feel how the Earth is cradling you.

Be grateful for the minerals within you.

Be happy that you will return those minerals to the Earth.

Let yourself expand into the interbeing with the Earth.

As I breathe in, I feel the Love filling me - As I breath out, I let the love flow into the air.

Let yourself expand into the interbeing with the air.

As I breathe in, I smile to the clouds within me.  -  As I breathe out, I feel the cloud's freedom from floating.

Let yourself expand into the interbeing with the cloud.

I am aware of my in breathe.  -  I feel how I am more than this body.

I am the beauty of interbeing.  -  I am home.

Collective observations and reflections

We share and listen.