Dissolve the 5 Aggregates: Using Guided Loving-Kindness Meditation

I would like you all to take up your sitting posture, wherever that is, whether it's on a chair or on the cushion, and just get comfortable. Once you guys are settled in and you found your sitting posture, I want you to close your eyes. And take a deep breath. And as you exhale, just feel your entire body relax.

We'll do this two more times. Inhale, deep inhalation. And relax. Now just scan through your body. Just run your attention up from the top of your head all the way down to your toes and up again. And notice if there's any tightness or tension anywhere in the body. And consciously soften that tension. Let go of it. Relax.

I want you to bring a small Buddha smile on your face, in your eyes, and in your heart. And in your mind think, may I be happy. May I be well. May I be free of suffering. May I be filled with loving kindness. May I be filled with loving kindness. And think back to a time where you did something good for another person.

Or any series of memories where you were generous. Any happy memory that you can think of that brings softness. That brings softness to your heart. And feel into that. Feel into that. Feel into that. Feel into the idea that I deserve to be happy, I deserve love and kindness, I deserve compassion, I deserve empathy, I deserve joy, I deserve to be at peace. Really feel into that.

When your mind gets distracted and it's going into the sounds around you, it's listening to the drilling, it's listening to the crows, it's listening to the taxis and so on, just be aware of that and let that go and relax back, sink back into the feeling. Fill your entire body up with loving kindness from the heart. You deserve to be happy, you deserve to be free of any kind of suffering. You want you to bask in this feeling as if you're on a beach in paradise and the warm glow of the sun is gently on your face and body. Love and kindness for yourself. Thank you. When your mind gets pulled away. When your mind gets pulled away.

Notice it. And relax back into the feeling. Your mind might be distracted by some noise or smells or feeling on the body but notice that. Relax. Come back to the feeling of loving kindness. Let the loving kindness spread throughout the body. From your heart upwards to your head and downwards to your toes. Through your arms up into the head. Loving kindness everywhere.

Every muscle. Every muscle. Every bone. Every bone. Every sinew. Every cell of your body is in love. And you're in love and kindness. You may feel some joy coming up. You may feel some joy coming up. You may feel some tranquility coming up. You may feel some tranquility coming up. You may feel some tranquility coming up. You may feel some equanimity coming up.

You may feel spacious, expansive. But these are all just markers in the background. In the background. Our attention is relaxed. Our attention is relaxed and aware of loving kindness. Our attention is relaxed and aware of loving kindness. All the honking, the drumming, the crows. They're also in the background. Let them be. Let them be. Let them be. All the sounds, all the smells, everything is encompassed in my feeling of loving-kindness.

They are not separate from me. They're okay. It's okay to be there. Now I feel all that loving-kindness throughout my body, throughout my cells increasing, glowing out from the pores of my skin. Protecting me. Shielding me. Loving-kindness surrounds me. It pervades my entire body and around my body. Loving-kindness is now my aura. It's everywhere around me. Thank you. Your mind goes elsewhere.

It's okay. Notice that. Relax. Come back to that aura of loving-kindness. Whatever distractions come up, they too deserve our loving-kindness. So now, we're going to feel into that loving-kindness all throughout the body. Surrounding the body. Outside the body. And we're going to share it with everyone here. Everyone in this room deserves our loving-kindness. May everyone here be happy.

May everyone here be free of suffering. May everyone here be free of suffering. May everyone here be filled with our loving-kindness. In all directions. Feel into that loving-kindness. Feel into that loving-kindness, which is now one homogenous experience that we are all feeling into. Feel into that loving-kindness, which is now one homogenous experience that we are all feeling into. Thank you. Now we're going to direct that feeling of loving-kindness. Now we're going to direct that feeling of loving-kindness in front of us. Keep that feeling going in front of us.

Keep that feeling going in front of us. May everything and everyone in front of us be touched by this loving-kindness. Just keep it going in front of us. Just keep it going in front of us in the forward direction. May all things, may all things, may all beings experience my loving-kindness in front of me. Without end. Without limits.

And relax back into the feeling. And put your attention behind you. And all things, may all things. May all things, may all things, may all things, may all things, may all things, may all things, may all things, may all things. To our left with our loving-kindness. And I'll just go to the next one. I'll just go. May all things, may all things, may all things, may all things below us feel our loving-kindness. May all things below us feel our loving-kindness.

May the earth beneath our feet be filled with loving-kindness. May the insects in the ground feel our loving-kindness. May the insects in the ground feel our loving-kindness. May the insects in the ground feel our loving-kindness. May the insects in the ground feel our loving-kindness. May the insects in the ground feel our loving-kindness. May the insects in the ground feel our loving-kindness. May the insects in the ground feel our loving-kindness. May the insects in the ground feel our loving-kindness. May the insects in the ground feel our loving-kindness. May the insects in the ground feel our loving-kindness. May the insects in the ground feel our loving-kindness. May the insects in the ground feel our loving-kindness. May the bees in the ground feel our loving-kindness.

The hungry ghosts. Ghosts who are helpless. Ghosts who are helpless. Who have nowhere to go. Ghosts who are helpless. May the birds in the ground feel our loving-kindness. May the birds in the ground feel our loving-kindness. May whatever beings may be in whatever hell realms there may be feel our loving-kindness. May all those suffering in these realms feel our loving-kindness.

May all beings in the world feel our lives. May all beings in the world feel our lives. May all beings in the world feel our lives. May all beings in the world. Loving kindness, no end. Have no end. Let's rest in this field of infinite loving kindness. In this field of compassion. May all beings in this infinite field be free of any suffering whatsoever. Thank you. If there are any distractions, just let go.

It's okay if it's there. It's okay if it's not there. It doesn't matter. Let's bring our attention back into this infinite field. And now we're going to gather our attention to our body. Notice how the body has grown, has developed from our infinite field. How tiny our body is. And how it grows. And how it grows into a toddler.

And from there, how it grows into childhood. As we play around and make friends and walk and run. And how it keeps growing into our teenage years. Into our adolescence. Into our adulthood. This body has kept changing. This body is always in flux. This body is made up of so many different cells. Our feet. The air circulating around us.

The water that we drink. It's all form. It keeps changing. It keeps changing. It's always in flux. And one day this body will age. This body will deteriorate. This body will deteriorate. This body will deteriorate. The eyes, the ears, the nose, the tongue, this body, the brain, all of it will start to change.

It may weaken as we age. And one day this body will become a corpse. It will decay. It will decay. It will decay. It will decay. It will decay. It will decay. It will decay. It will decay. It will go back into the earth. Go back into the fire. Go back into the fire. Go back into the elements. This body is not different from the elements. It will decay. It will decay. It will decay. It will decay. It will decay. It will go back into the fire. Go back into the fire. Go back into the fire.

Go back into the elements. This body is not different from the elements which keep changing. All the time. All the time. This body is not me. This body is not mine. This body is not myself. I am not the body. Whatever I can observe in the body, through the body, from the body is not me, is not mine, is not myself. I am letting go of the body. I am dropping the body.

And I bring my attention to any sensations, any experience. The sound of the voice that is speaking right now. The sound of the crows, sound of the birds, sound of the cars, sound of construction. This sound comes and goes. These sensations, the circulation of the fan, the air, the air, on my skin. All of it comes and goes.

The pain in the body, if there is. The feeling of spaciousness. The internal arising and passing away of sensations in the body. My thoughts. Are not my thoughts. Pull back. Pull back. Let your attention rest in itself. Be aware of all of these sounds as they come and as they go. The thoughts, the reflections, the concepts, the ideas. The thoughts are just flowing traffic. There is just flowing traffic. There is watching going on and observing of this traffic. There is watching going on and observing of this traffic. These sensations, these thoughts, these ideas are not me. These sensations, these thoughts, these ideas are not me.

Are not mine. Are not mine. Are not myself. I am not myself. I am not them. I am not them. I drop my perception on them. I drop my perception on them. I let go of my awareness of them. I let go of my awareness of them. I let go of them. Any perceptions. Any perceptions that arise.

Concepts of my name. My family. My relationships. My relationships. The color of my skin. The color of my skin. The color of my skin. The culture I am born in. All views. All views. That come and go in my mind. All opinions. All opinions. Are just. All opinions. All opinions. All opinions. All opinions. All opinions. All opinions. All right. All right.

All right. All right. All right. all right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. choices of all sensations now there are no options there is no me you them there is no outside or inside there is no center there is no middle there is no boundary there is just awareness there is no i in this awareness there is no me in this awareness there's just awareness there is just flow of information a flow of attention a flow of consciousness

I choose to drop this awareness as well. Doesn't matter to me. No awareness, awareness. No cessation, cessation. No suffering, suffering. Freedom, no freedom. These are all concepts. I choose to drop all concepts and just remain in non-conceptual reality. No projections. No ideas. No images. Within the scope of this blue sky of undifferentiated, boundless, borderless, free awareness, unconditioned, unclouded, uncreated, unborn, undying. Just rest and relax. There is no going or coming. No being or non-being. No liberating. No bondage. No suffering. No cessation. No jhana. No infinite space. No nothingness. No nothingness. No light. No darkness. No darkness. No body. No mind. No sensation. No sensation. Just awareness. There is only watching. There is only observing. No difference between inside, no one person, no nascar, no quiet or no quiet, silence or no quiet, silence or no silence. This world or no silence, this world or the other. All of it is within this unconditioned, absolute, unmanifested reality. This world or the other. All of it is within this unconditioned, absolute, unmanifested reality. Reality. This reality pervades, transcends.

And is enmeshed in all. All. It is the all. It is the all. Free from choices. Free from choices. Free from differentiation. The absolute. This is the shelter. This is the shelter. This is the refuge. This is the refuge. This is the island. This is the island. This is just this. You, no where to go. This reality.

Just the absolute. Just rest. Just sink into it. Nothing else. Nothing else. Nothing else. Nothing else. Nothing else. Nothing else. There is no mind. A quiet mind. Signless mind. No jhana. No hindrance. No duality. Duality. No separation. No union. No. There's only the pain. No pleasure. There's only the pleasure. Just this. Is the end of suffering. Total being.

Total. Total. Total. Absolute. Presence. No. This presence of all defilements. This is our nature. Our true nature. This is what the world stems from. This absolute reality. Free of all defilements, in all conditions and concepts. In all conditions and concepts. Beyond experience. And in all experience. Beyond sensations. And in all sensations. Beyond thinking. And in all thoughts.

Beyond body. And in all bodies. Beyond identity. And in all identities. Beyond this world. Beyond this world. And in this world. Slowly bring this awareness. This understanding. This understanding. This experience. This experience. In the body. Embody it. Embody it. Ground it to the body. Ground it to the senses. Ground it to the mind. And when you're ready.

to come out of the sit. To come out of the sit. With that absolute pristine presence of mind, in your body. It will always be there. I will always be there. I will always be there. I will always be there. As you start to feel into your body. As you start to feel into your body. Do so with that presence of mind. And as you open your eyes. And as you open your eyes. Do so with that presence of mind. And as you open your eyes. Do so with that presence of mind. And as you open your eyes. Do so with that presence of mind. And as you open your eyes. And as you open your eyes.

Do so with that presence of mind. And as you move around in the body. And if you choose to move around in your chair or in your seat, do so with that presence of mind. And when you're ready. And when you're ready. And when you're ready. And when you're ready. You can open your eyes. You can open your eyes. You can open your eyes. Be here now.