I AM: Guided meditation

[Guest guest]

I like this guided meditation. I hope it's helpful to someone else.

 

This guided meditation takes you to the heart of your witness

consciousness, your native awareness, the simple feeling of being or " I

AMness " itself.

 

Notice your present awareness. Notice the images and thoughts arising in

your mind, the feelings and sensations arising in your body, the myriad

objects arising around you in the room or environment. All of these are

objects arising in your awareness.

Now think about what was in your awareness five minutes ago. Most of the

thoughts have changed, most of the bodily sensations have changed, and

most of the environment may have changed. But something has not changed.

Something in you is the same now as it was five minutes ago. What is

present now that was present five minutes ago?

The feeling-awareness of being itself, your most basic I AMness, is

still present. You are that ever-present I AMness. That I AMness is

present now, it was present a moment ago, it was present a minute ago,

it was present five minutes ago.

What was present five hours ago?

I AMness. That sense of I AMness is an ongoing, self-knowing,

self-recognizing, self-validating I AMness. It is present now, it was

present five hours ago. All your thoughts have changed, all your bodily

sensations have changed, your environment has also changed, at least

slightly, but I AM is ever-present, radiant, open, empty, clear,

spacious, transparent, free. Objects have changed, but not this

formless I AMness. This obvious and present I AMness is present now as

it was present five hours ago.

What was present five years ago?

I AMness. So many objects have come and gone, so many feelings have come

and gone, so many thoughts have come and gone, so many dramas and

terrors and loves and hates have come, and stayed a while, and gone. But

one thing has not come, and one thing has not gone. What is that? What

is the only thing present in your awareness right now that you can

remember was present five years ago? This timeless, ever-present feeling

of I AMness is present now as it was five years ago.

What was present five centuries ago?

All that is ever-present is I AMness. Every person feels this same I

AMness - because it is not a body, it is not a thought, it is not an

object, it is not the environment, it is not anything that can be seen,

but rather is the ever-present Seer, the ongoing open and empty Witness

of all that is arising, in any person, in any world, in any place, at

any time, in all the worlds until the end of time, there is only and

always this obvious and immediate I AMness. What else could you possibly

know? What else does anybody ever know? There is only and always this

radiant, self-knowing, self-feeling, self-transcending I AMness, whether

present now, five minutes ago, five hours ago, five centuries ago.

Five millennia ago?

Before Abraham was, I AM. Before the universe was, I AM. This is your

original face, the face you had before your parents were born, the face

you had before the universe was born, the face you have had for all

eternity until you decided to play this round of hide and seek, and get

lost in the objects of your own creation.

There is no need to pretend that you do not know or feel your own I

AMness.

And with that, the game is undone. A million thoughts have come and

gone, a million feelings have come and gone, a million objects have come

and gone. But one thing has not come, and one thing has not gone: the

great Unborn and the great Undying, which never enters or leaves the

stream of time, a pure Presence above time, floating in eternity. You

are this great, obvious, self-knowing, self-validating, self-liberating

I AMness.

Before Abraham was, I AM.

I AM is none other than Spirit in 1st person, the ultimate, the sublime,

the radiant all-creating Self of the entire Kosmos, present in you and

me and us and him and her and them and all - as the I AMness that each

and every one of us feels.

Because in all the known universes, the overall number of I AMs is but

one.

Rest as I AMness always, the exact I AMness you feel right now, just as

it is, which is Unborn Spirit itself shining in and as you. Assume your

personal identity as well 0 as this or that object, or this or that

self, or this and that thing resting always in the Ground of it All, as

this great and completely obvious I AMness, and get up and go on about

your day, in the universe I AM created.

 

(After this meditation practice, having grounded your understanding of

the radical depth of your own I AMness, you might choose to engage a

simple mantra meditation using those two simple words.)

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much for this, its just what I was looking for. (:

And your stillness speaks - So simple so powerful and so beautiful.

I shall ponder these as I lay my head down tonight!

Much love to you!

Deb

 

, " kundaflame "

<kundaflame wrote:

>

> I like this guided meditation. I hope it's helpful to someone else.

>

> This guided meditation takes you to the heart of your witness

> consciousness, your native awareness, the simple feeling of being or " I

> AMness " itself.

>