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WITNESS MEDITATION

When agitation in the body and mind occurs, focus your attention on observing in-breath and out-breath, do walking meditation and return to calm.

Once this is established within your being, gently open your heart and crown centers. Breathe in to the heart center and take white light up to the crown. From there the thought from your mind directs this energy to go out through your crown, and on the out-breath, totally envelop your body with light from your heart. (This is Meditation III from the Breath and Light meditations.)

The movement from mental and bodily agitation, to a higher vibration of stillness, is accomplished with these simple meditative steps. Use your breath in the manner described for however long it takes you to come to a place of stillness. From this higher level of internal energy you may then engage with both external and internal phenomena in a way that does not allow their particular energies to influence your being.



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It helps you to be steady, clear and protected from all that may push you into confusion and doubt. If you engage directly with the energies of attachment (i.e. without a meditative calm), then the pattern you are suffering from and/or distressed about will be repeated throughout life until the lesson is learned. The fast track is to heed the lesson of being in the witness state, without reaction. The practice is that of witness, a dispassionate response to all phenomena.

Equanimity grows as your fidelity to practice blossoms, and you become more deeply rooted in your true nature. It is a wonderful wisdom to be so centered, nothing shakes you or tempts you, for dispassion reveals the truth of everything. This is what awaits you beyond the desire, craving, attachment cycle for you will come to experience and dwell in a deep love.

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