September 18, 2021 Saturday Afternoon, Mediums Group
Mary’s Guided Meditation; Q&A
Mary (B): My love to you. I am Mary. I have an idea of a meditation that may be helpful to you, so I’d just like to share it with you.
We are sitting on a beautiful mountaintop, high up at the summit. Range upon range of mountains in the distance. The day has been cloudy; occasional very light rain, like mist everywhere, so you’ve been told that the view is there but you can’t see it, just fog, heavy fog.
This group of you, you’re gathered here together. You’ve climbed the mountain, unpacked your lunch and sat. You decide to meditate, and you all close your eyes.
There is a pervading sense of darkness on the mountaintop because of the heaviness of the weather.
Breathing in, and aware of the darkness; breathing out.
Breathing in and aware of chill, of cold wind; breathing out.
Breathing in and aware of wetness, damp; breathing out.
Breathing in and aware of subtle contraction, discomfort because it is dark, damp and cold, the body yearning for warmth and light. Holding space for that contraction, breathing out.
Aware of tension; breathing out.
You each are moved to reach out energetically, but sitting on this zoom mountaintop, allow to arise the memory of physical contact. Taking the hands of those sitting beside you, each of you reaching out and taking your neighbors’ hands so the circle gathers.
You know who is sitting here with you. Feel this energy. Feel the light and love flowing through your neighbor. You may be cold and damp and uncomfortable, so that it feels that light is not available to you. But feel it coming in from your neighbor. And although you are not feeling it for yourself, it’s going out from you to your neighbor because you are light; that is your true essence. And when you take another’s hand and hold the intention to service to all beings, to love to all beings, you find that essence of love and light that is within you that is your true being. Your neighbor is feeling it from you. You are feeling it from your neighbors and through the entire circle.
Now I’m going to be quiet for several minutes. Ahhh, relaxing. Allow the energy to flow through this circle and I’ll be quiet.
(sitting)
As you are sitting, begin to experience through the closed eyelids an intensity of light, and feel the warmth of the sun on your shoulders, the sun breaking through the clouds.
Breathing in that light, bringing it down to your heart, and then with the exhale, send it out through both your arms. Out to the neighbors whose hands you hold, almost like tonglen. Breathing in the light, the sun’s warmth that disperses the chill and darkness.
The sun has always been there. It never was gone, even for an instant, but the clouds hid it.
Your own innate radiance has always been there, never been gone even for an instant.
But the clouds of your confusion, your old habits, have been blocking that sun.
Feel the power of the light within you. Let’s gather the energy in through your left hand from your neighbor, bring it through your heart, and send it out through your right hand. Your neighbor receiving it, then, in his or her left hand.
More energy and light coming in through your left hand and through you, and expanded because it touches your heart. And moving out through your right hand. Keep it going around the circle.
Some of you are thinking, “I cannot take it in completely.” That’s okay; take in what you can. You are human; there is no such thing as completely, there is only the best that you can do at the moment, because you have a strong intention to service and love.
Whatever is still creating blockage, gradually it will go. Any resistance to receiving that light, just know it as resistance. Breathe space in your heart and permit resistance to be there. Not trying to destroy resistance; just holding space for it.
And then that light going back out through your right hand to your neighbor. Receiving more from the left side.
I’ll be quiet for a minute…
(sitting)
Any areas of darkness in the self, old fear, old shame, any physical distortion, allow that light to carry it away. You are not passing that off to your neighbor. With the exhale you’re just releasing it, clearing the whole body/mind/spirit complex more and more so that it can absorb and express more light.
(sitting)
Very gently release your neighbors’ hands and bring your hands over your heart. Feel the light and love within you.
State a “Thank you,” not to something external but to the Divine Essence of which you are expression, thanking yourself. “I give thanks that I am a being of light learning more and more how to express that light in the world. I consecrate this body, mind, and spirit to love and to service to all beings.”
And then you may open your eyes.
I thank you. I would have extended this another ten minutes but Aaron said you were to end at 11:30, so if you do this on your own, then keep it going a bit longer.
Tomorrow during Remembering Wholeness you might wish to start in this way. The Mother, perhaps, or Aaron can lead you in this meditation, or I can come in and lead it at the opening.
I hope this has been helpful to you. May it serve to remind you of your truth and the truth of all that is. Even that loyal opposition at its heart is light, light as yet uncovered, undiscovered.
I am Mary. I thank you.
Q: Is there an energy we have that we have to give away or we lose it, and can we give it to sangha?
Mary (B): You don’t have to give anything away, my friend. But the more you give, the more comes in and fills you. This giving heart starts small, and it gives a little bit. But then as it gives it expands and more comes in, and more comes in, and more comes in. The more space you make by giving, the more you can receive.
(Q does an exercise where they bring the light in through the crown and back; is it similar?)
Mary (B): Yes and no. The exercise you’re doing is very valuable. Opening the chakras is very valuable. It helps the body. It helps create open energy, movement of energy, and that’s very necessary for the human to live in an expanded state. But that is preparatory to what we’re doing here.
This is a different level. We’re not moving into the chakras with this exercise so much as reactivating the already awakened heart. Remembering that awakened heart. It’s not the heart chakra. When I say “awakened heart” I’m talking about that whole energy system, the front and back chakras, all the chakras, the whole energy system connected to All That Is.
For example, with students I might recommend doing this exercise, going out and hugging a tree and doing the exercise we just did. Instead of holding hands with your friends, holding the tree and beginning to feel the vast energy of the tree, the branches 60′ up, reaching the sky, the roots far down below you. And how totally interconnected you are with that tree, earth and sky. Nothing is dual. You begin not to know that non-duality as idea but to deeply experience the interconnection with the tree.
Once you’ve done it with a tree it would be helpful to do it with just one small flower. Holding the flower in the same way and feeling the vast divine energy moving into the flower from the roots, from the earth, all the elements feeding into the flower, and that you are no different and not separate from the flower. You are the giant tree; you are the flower.
Can you see how this is different but is built upon the chakra exercise you were doing?
I love you all very much. It delights me that Aaron has invited me to participate this year in the Eden Project and to be working with you as a friend. I don’t want to say a teacher; I’m not a teacher, I am a friend. But I am a friend with good experience who has the capacity to teach, just as you have the capacity to teach. We’re all friends; we’re all teachers. We’re all learners, too.
Thank you very much. I will release the body to Barbara…