Guided Meditation by Michael Taft
First 15 min – Shamatha with an object.
Then Dissolving with the Outbreath
Then Shamatha with out an object
Then the physique is deconstructed into earth, air, fireplace, water, and house.
There are a lot of kinds of deconstruction attainable. Right here we’re dividing the physique up within the creativeness, into the 5 conventional parts earth, air, fireplace, water, and house. In fact these usually are not the fashionable notion of parts, as depicted in a periodic desk. The precise phrase is dhatu, and is meant to explain the physique (and world) when it comes to its arising in sensory expertise.
On this conventional meditation, we image every the assorted parts (dhatu) of the physique individually, and the components of the physique that it constitutes. Then we permit this ingredient to return to the earth, or to nature. Steadily, we deconstruct your entire bodily physique, and all of its parts are returned to the setting, with no the rest.
We think about that because the physique is totally dissolved into its constituent parts after which disappears into the earth, acutely aware consciousness continues. Doing so helps us to dis-identify with the fabric physique because the locus of self.
In the long run, we think about a wholly new and wholesome physique is assembled out of recent, vibrant parts.