Break all boundaries
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ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
Experiencing cosmic consciousness is possible only when we are willing to dissolve our own boundaries, both physical and mental. When we become fluid, we perceive our environment also as fluid. When we become conscious, we see the truth that everything is consciousness. When we try to connect, we realize that everything is already connected!
Duration: Not applicable
INSTRUCTIONS
This is a ‘touch’ meditation.
Whenever you are touching something or someone, experience the point of contact intensely. Visualize that at that point, there is a small ‘break’ in the boundaries of both you and that object or person. You cannot feel your boundary at that point. Instead, you feel the object or person flowing into you at the point of contact. Similarly, you are flowing into the other at the same point. Feel very clearly that the object and you are interpenetrating each other. Your energies are merging into one.
Visualize this experience spreading to the rest of your body from the point of contact. The same way, it is spreading through the body of the other also. Now you and the other have a common boundary that includes both of you!
Continuously, when you are touching something, feel as if both you and the other are merging into one. As you continue with this practice, you will become more and more sensitive to the ‘livingness’ that is everywhere, even in the so-called non-living objects. You will understand experientially that the universe responds to your touch! You will enjoy a genuine connectedness with everyone and everything around you.
You are alive everywhere
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
The sense of being a solid being, isolated from everything around you, is the root of all your misery. It closes you to the possibility of connecting and responding sensitively to the world around you.
Real sensitivity is being able to feel the subtle actions of the universe in you; to be able to move harmoniously with the ever changing Existence. When you experience the whole cosmos as one large body of consciousness, when you can feel the pulse of life in everything around you, you have found real sensitivity. When this happens, you will drop the load of your personality, and start living with a light and ecstatic being.
Instructions
Duration: 21 minutes
Sit comfortably with your eyes closed. Be relaxed, but be alert and aware. You are going to consciously practice awareness! First, start with yourself. Be aware of your body. Feel the aliveness in your body. Your body is not as rigid as you think! When your eyes are closed, you will become aware that your body subtly changes shape, changes form, becomes heavy or light, expands and shrinks. Only your idea of it remains constant. That’s why you don’t notice these changes. Now become aware of your breathing, the rise and fall of your breathing. Feel the life-force entering you through your nostrils. Feel the prana vibrating inside you. Feel yourself intensely alive in every cell of your body. Welcome the pulsing of life inside your body. Now, take your awareness outside yourself. If you are sitting on a chair, become aware of the chair, as if from inside. Visualize that you are alive inside the chair! Feel you are alive inside the chair in the same way you feel alive inside your own skin. As you feel alive inside your skin, with the same intensity, feel alive inside the chair.
Instructions (continuation)
Duration: 21 minutes
Feel the pulsing of life inside the chair in the same way as it is happening in your body. The same life is radiating in the chair that is radiating inside your skin. Even if it feels strange at first, keep up the visualization. This is not just imagination, it s the truth. The visualization is only to help you realize the truth that your eyes can't normally see. Once you can feel yourself alive in the chair, slowly take your awareness to other things. Feel the persons sitting around you, and feel alive inside each of them, as you feel in your own body. Take a few moments to experience clearly that you are alive in each and every person. Now expand your awareness in a relaxed way. Feel you are intensely alive in everything - the furniture in the room, the walls, the floor, the flowers in the garden outside, the people, flowers, room, and even the floor. Carry this experience with you continuously.
