Teaching, Counseling, and Training Since 1978
Aloha from Hawaii. May this
teaching uphold the unconditional nature of Zen meditation and mindfulness in
your daily life, deepen your felt intimacy with the
wisdoming of breath, and encourage you to live as this Only
Moment Body of ease and joy within the clarifying light of
vast impermanence and the undeniable truth of death and dying. Sincerely, Dr. Bonnici
ZEN MEDITATION All Rights Reserved by Dr. Andrew Shugyo Daijo Bonnici
Meditation is not an altered
state of consciousness or a transcendental state of being. Meditation is the practice of a
natural, pristine, or original Way of being your human body and being in
your body with wakefulness, bright wisdoming and genuine compassion toward
all of your passing thoughts, feelings, sensations and
perceptions.
The true body of meditation is
not restricted to the seated form.
The root body of meditation as a Way of life is the practice of
resting on the true ground of our unconditional nature.
We truly rest
in the practice of our
unconditional nature when we live our life without constantly grasping and
pushing away at our felt experiences.
When we rest on the True ground of
our unconditional being we do not identify with the ever arising
impermanence of our egocentric desires or the endless self-chatter and
self-preoccupation about our likes and dislikes.
When you practice the root
body of meditation as living unconditionally moment by moment, you may be
said to actualize and authenticate the unfathomable depth of your
humanness and the wholeness of your body wisdoming.
Without this unconditional posture
in meditation life practice, the truth and dignity of your humanness and
the wholeness of your body wisdoming cannot be fully realized nor
authenticated within yourself and in your relationship with
others.
The true practice of
meditation is exactly the tangible process of breathing into the
center point of your lower abdomen. Meditation is feeling the pause at
the end of your inhalation, resting in the center point of gravity, and
deeply sensing the felt wholeness of your body wisdoming. The practice of meditation and the
felt wholeness of your body wisdoming is also the tangible process of
breathing out and letting your whole body become soft, gentle,
peaceful, vital and wakeful.
Know that this practice of
authentic meditation does not transcend daily life nor the felt experience
that true self is exactly the tangible wholeness of your deep body
wisdoming. Living meditation
is exactly breathing silence into the wholeness of deep body wisdoming,
and being the wholeness of deep body wisdoming is your true self that
practices living unconditionally throughout the activities and
relationships of daily life.
The tangible bodily experience
of living meditation as the wholeness of body wisdoming is like the
feeling of a firm stone in your hand that communicates a constant and
trustworthy refuge of coolness, weight, presence and truth. Meditation as the felt wholeness of
body wisdoming is like the wetness of water that unconditionally upholds,
caresses and embraces our whole being just as it is, just as we
are.
As you practice this teaching,
let go of the chains of self-preoccupation. Free yourself from bondage to
arising likes and dislikes and liberate your true nature from the inner
prison of egocentricity. Surrender to just being this Only Moment Body without attaching to
the endless passage of thoughts, desires, judgments, and preferences. See things as they are, drop all
ideas of self-inflation or worthlessness, and die to the virtual reality
and illusory nature of your personal drama and self-chatter. Just be reborn as the felt
wholeness of a body wisdoming in each passing moment.
Do not identify with your
judgmental thoughts nor project them onto others. Just see them for what they are
and let them die away. Breathe in as if it was the first breath of your life. Breathe out as if you were
entering death through the last breath of your life. Meet your self intimately and
honestly with each exhalation. Become the pause of your exhalation and enter your last Moment with
courage, faith, dignity, and compassion.
When you finally die to your inner
chatter, self-drama, egocentric desires, and narrow preferences, wonder,
peace, and sacredness will be revealed as your True Nature and deep
wisdoming will be actualized in the mundane activities and relationships
of your everyday life. This
is called: Clearly aligning the integrity of your inner posture, the
moment body wisdoming of enlightenment and the precious joy
of compassionate being are immediately accomplished
without willful effort, self-attainment,
or personal gain.
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