Meditation on the Universal Invocation with Juliana Cesano
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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] good morning everyone as i announced last week this is going to be our last streamed meditation through youtube and facebook but this space will continue through zoom so if you would like to participate on future sundays please sign up using the link in the description the meditations that we have done so far will stay as resources on our channel and you can always go back to them for today as it was mentioned before it is advised that we find a practice that works for us at this point and that we stick to it for a while the process is similar to the planting of a seed we had to keep the seed on the same soil for a while nurture it and wait the waiting is the part that requires patience and openness a willingness to be receptive with a great trust in the process this quality of patient waiting and listening is as important and i dare say more important than our active participation in it it is by this skillful waiting in the darkness of the unknown nurtured by silence that the seed begins to unfold toward the light everything is already contained in the seed we only need to provide the right environment the right conditions and trust the intelligence of the process many times what is already awakening doesn't reveal itself in ways we can perceive it but the development has begun like the little plant that begins to grow under the dirt and seen by our own eyes this process of revealing what has been hidden has also been described as deeper and deeper stages of silence and an important part of becoming familiar with silence is learning to listen the other aspect is intention what is it that we seek so this this call and response we talked about before if there is only calling which is only you know action or intention there won't be space for a response but a response only comes when we call so both aspects go together at least at the beginning i'm going to end this series with a meditation that will be based on listening and that will also use a seed or intention an invocation that is well known within theosophical circles and that is called the universal prayer this is an invocation of great significance and depth that dr annie bessent wrote in the early 1900s if you have heard it before try to listen to each word as if it was new and for all of us see if you can connect with the deeper realities that lie beyond these words the invocation alludes to the light the life and the love that are ever present but often hidden from our perception and at the end it gives us the key through which they can be known i will recite it in a way that will allow for you to repeat each phrase inwardly or out loud so with that being said let's begin our practice by sitting comfortably by aligning the spine by relaxing the shoulders down and closing our eyes first by noticing that we are here and allowing the breath to become deeper through the exhalation begin to relax the outer layers of tension and breath by breath continue to relax more hidden layers of tension underneath the surface [Music] notice that as you soften your eyelids and the skin of your face you can invite a deeper sense of relaxation the more relaxed the body becomes the more awake we become to this moment we will now leave all past experiences behind letting them go and all speculation about the future also aside and we center ourselves in this moment through the inhalation we are going to invite a sense of compassion or peace within and around us as if we could inhale them and they could fill our entire being [Music] and when that compassion or peace have become the foundation of our practice when we can feel their presence we begin to open our perception to this moment as a peaceful compassionate observer becoming open to what we are experiencing right now keeping our awareness alive awake and energized we listen intently not with the ears but with our whole being there's no room for thoughts when we're listening if a thought walks in to the field of awareness we notice it [Music] and come back to listening [Music] [Music] [Music] asking in the presence of silence all hidden life vibrant in every atom o hidden light shining in every creature all hidden love embracing all in oneness may all who feel themselves one with thee no they are therefore one with every other [Music] [Music] as our practice comes to an end let us offer it to all sentient beings so they may be free from suffering from conditioning from pain may all beings know the hidden life light and love of our prayer and with the intention of remaining present throughout the day listening intently to the hidden reality sustaining this manifested universe we slowly begin to connect once again with the physical sensations and we begin to open our eyes i want to thank each one of you for being part of this virtual meditation group that started way back in march and invite you to continue to join us through zone it is my wish that we can continue to nurture our practice but also our effort to question why we do what we do to prioritize waking up from this dream rather than creating new limitations with additional beliefs always remembering like i said at the very beginning that no technique leads to freedom as no method leads to love stay well and peace until we meet again foreign foreign you
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