Aware of Body | Calm the Body

4 Be the Breathing.  Be the Soothing.

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What is like to just BE in the moment?

Objective: To experience life within us without words.

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.

  • InterBeing

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 Hello and welcome.

Sangha Sharing

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Dharma Talk

 Just BE

Sitting and being with our breathing can be very peaceful and enjoyable.  Also, sitting and being with our body can be just as delightful.  When we sit and are aware of the interbeing of our breathing and our body, the synergy between the two is even more restful than the sum of the two.  In these moments, we are experiencing interbeing.  We have a definition of interbeing but in these moments we are interbeing.  The experience is so much more than our definitions.

Sitting in interbeing doesn't require words.  Your entire focus is on the being.  When you walk, you don't need to tell yourself how to walk, you just do it.  Being in oneness with your breath and body is the same.  

As we listen to our awareness, we can hear where the next gatha needs to be.  Inter-being can be your own personal guided meditation.  This happens with trust and simply takes time being immersed in Inter-being.  

A Thích Nhất Hạnh talk

To Be Means To InterBe | Thich Nhat Hanh

We can experience the beauty of InterBeing with our breathing and our body.  When you are immersed in the inter-being of breath and body, you don't need words.  You just "be" the breath.  You just "be" the body.  You just "be" the breath and body as they InterAre.

Collective observations and reflections

We all share and listen.

Be Kind.  Be Gently. Be Loving

We begin with mindfully breathing.  Next, our concentration begins with kindness.

Be Kind is a greeting.  We greet our breath, our body, our feelings, our thoughts, our distractions, life around us and others with kindness.  This is a loving act for yourself.

Be Gentle is unconditional listening.  We listen for understanding only.  Compassion comes from understanding.  Insight comes from gentle listening.

Be Loving is an expression rooted in our compassion.  We don't love by fixing.  We love by soothing.  Soothing provides the fertile conditions for transformation to happen.  

Let's InterBe in the Here and the Now

Remember, meditation is meant to be experienced.  You can't swim without getting wet and you can't meditate without experiencing. 

The gatha uses the word "be".  During these lines, try to let go of the words and just "be" the experience.

20 minutes with bells at 2 mins.

I am aware of my whole in breathe.  -  I happily smile to my out breathe.

Feel the smoothness and calmness.  -  Kindly greet your shoulders.

Enjoy the in breath.  -  Gently listen to your shoulders.

Enjoy your in breath.  -  Lovingly sooth your shoulders.  Share the needed qualities from the in breath with the shoulders.

Be the smoothness and enjoyment of your breath.  -  Be the soothing shoulders.

Slowly let go of the words and just BE the enjoyment and BE the soothing.

Be the breathing and the soothing.  They Inter-are.

Because I am the breathing   -  I am the soothing

Be the breathing.  Be the soothing.

Enjoy the BEing.

Enjoy the beauty of being alive.

Collective observations and reflections

We all share and listen.