I AM: Guided meditation (revised)

[Guest guest]

thought it would be easier on the eyes to have all the spaces

 

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

 

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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 for this meditation Craig!

 

Kevin

 

 

 

, " kundaflame "

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