Oneness

A guided meditation

(To be read to yourself or shared aloud with a friend. Please pause at each space between lines.)

Aaron: I have said that I plan to lead a meditation, but that has different meaning for each of you. What is meditation?

There are so many different ways to meditate and each has validity; there is no one right way. The method which suits your needs and your path is the best way for you at this time. Do not hold to this method in a narrow way, saying "This is meditation." Be willing to grow and to learn. The right method of meditation is any method which will bring you home. This changes as you change. So as I lead you in a meditation now, I ask you to give up your old ideas of what meditation is. Simply bring yourself to the present moment, and open your heart to the possibilities for the future. The present is now. You can not live in the past, nor in the future.

Relax your body. The position in which you sit during meditation has different degrees of importance depending on the kind of meditation you do. Sitting here now, simply find a comfortable position.

Breath deeply several times: deep cleansing breaths.

Bring your attention to the third eye. Now see the inside of your forehead as a movie screen. Simply watch it.

Return your attention to your breath. Notice the inhalation and the exhalation. As you breath out, release all of the holdings of the past, all the pain, all the attachments. Feel the freshness in each new breath, and how it brings your attention to the present. Simply be here, and now.

Begin to notice that moment between the inhalation and the exhalation. This is the NOW!

Slightly extend this pause between breaths and concentrate your attention here. As you do, see if you can feel your heartbeat. Simultaneously bring your attention to this "now" and into your heart. Feel the pulse of life within yourself. The essence of your being lies not in your brain but in your heart.

Reach into your heart. Look for your soul there.

Find your highest self there, that beautiful and perfect essence of yourself that has lived with you through all your lifetimes.

Feel yourself expand to hold the grandness and perfection that you are, the beauty and wonder of you.

Each of you is a being of perfect light. In your essence you are all perfect.

Note that this being who you truly are, this essence of yourself, goes far beyond the human sitting here tonight.

This highest self has lived so many lives and been so many people.

You have loved and you have hated. You have known great joy and you have known fear and pain. You have been of every race and lived on every continent.

While the human that you are sits here bound in its fears and limitations, your essence knows no limitations.

It is boundless;

it is limitless;

it is perfect.

Feel that being within your heart. Feel the limitlessness of that being.

It is your own Soul, but it is not separate.

There are no edges to it, no defined boundaries, because you are part of God. His heart is your heart, the Heart we all share.

Through the Heart of God you are part of each other.

Reach out with your hearts to all other beings. Feel your oneness with each other. Reach out in love.

Let go of the fear. In the One Heart there is no need for fear.

When you love and trust there is no need for fear.

Fear is an armor to protect that self that feels vulnerable.

Fear is small ego self's shout to preserve itself solidly in a universe that ego cannot comprehend.

Fear would wall out the universe and wall in the self.

Fear is the cry of the self that judges itself and sees itself flawed in body and emotion.

Fear is demanding, intolerant and closed.

None of you are perfect and all of you are perfect. Do you understand that?

In your human form, you are not meant to be perfect, and in your essence you are always perfect. It can be no other way.

Let go of this fear. Trust, and allow yourself to love and be loved. Let your heart expand with love for your self, your beautiful and perfect self, and for all the others in the world who are also beautiful and perfect.

Feel the edges dissolve; feel the oneness; allow your love to carry you past the cage of fear.

Breathe out fear and armoring.

Breathe in the vast energy and love of the universe.

Rest in that space between inhale and exhale, the infinite NOW.

Breathe out fear and armoring. Let "self" go.

Breathe in spaciousness … love …

Rest, opening to this wonderful Now.

Breathe out boundaries.

Breathe in the infinite.

You are the infinite! Rest there.

Please continue silently for as long as feels appropriate …

(Long pause.)

Take a deep breath now and return your attention to yourself. Do not build up that armor again, just return to your center. As we end and you open your eyes, note within you that perfection of each being.