Luminous Body, Boundless Sky
A Meditation on Dissolving the Body into the Space of Awareness
Most of us experience the body as a solid, weighted object located in space – something we carry around, something that ages and bears the marks of past experience. But what is your direct experience of the body when you set aside all thoughts, memories and images? In this exploration, we’ll investigate the current flow of sensation itself, discovering that it has no clearly defined shape, no weight, no age. You’ll learn an ancient practice from the Tantric tradition in which awareness devours the body, dissolving the felt sense of density until what remains is transparent, luminous and utterly inseparable from the space in which it appears.
Feel yourself as the luminous, loving, space-like presence of awareness, which not only illuminates, or knows, but also contains the entire content of your experience: thoughts, images, memories, feelings, the sensations that constitute your experience of the body, and your perceptions that constitute your experience of the world – sights, sounds, tastes, textures and smells. All these appear in the luminous, loving, space-like presence of awareness.
In other words, allow the felt sense of being aware to extend beyond the limits of your individual mind and body to encompass everyone and everything.
You are a vast, borderless, transparent, empty, luminous field in which the entirety of your experience arises.
