Close your eyes
and visualize your child sitting before you. If your child is
an infant, cradle your child in your arms. If you child has
not yet been born, carefully cup your tiny baby in the palms of your
hands. If your child is sitting in a chair, reach your arms
out and hold your child’s hands in your own. Breathe deeply
and smile as you make eye contact with your child.
Gaze into
your child’s eyes and let your sight rest on your child’s small round
pupils. Sense a weightless part of yourself slowly moving toward
your child. As you begin to move, you become smaller and smaller,
your body reducing to the size of a grain of sand. You continue
to approach your child’s face, and float into one of your child’s
pupils. You feel as though you are in a cool cave. It
is pitch black.
Imagine the depth of deep space. Sense
the vast reach of this emptiness, spreading endlessly in all directions. With your next breath, inhale this open space. Imagine this
energizing space filling and moving about not just your lungs, but
your whole body. Sense your body opening to create room to accept
this space. This silent, open space spreads beyond your body
and fills the room or place you are in. Imagine it filling the
Earth. As you exhale, visualize and sense the vast emptiness
of this silent, open space leaving your body, leaving the room, and
leaving the earth, as it fills again the far reaches of outer space. Hold your breath for a few seconds as you float amid absolute
stillness.
Now, breathing comfortably, visualize a bright pinpoint
of white light centered within the heart of the deep, black, void
of space. Watch the light as it grows larger and begins to pulse. The pulse is familiar to you. It pulses in rhythm with
your beating heart. Sense it. Move with it. Breathe deeply and slow the rhythm so that it meets the internal
rhythm of your breathing. In and out. In and out.
As
you begin to breathe in time with the pulse, you feel yourself moving
toward the light. The light is millions of miles away, yet the
journey is effortless. Time is imperceptible, as the bright
pinpoint of white light grows larger and brighter. You continue
to travel toward the light as it becomes a large round, brilliantly
glowing, shiny, white orb. The orb burns bright but you can
safely look directly at it. Gaze at the white orb. As
you do, a penetrating blue light appears in its center. Your breathing is steady and slow.
The blue light slowly grows
larger and larger, increasing slightly each time your heart beats. As it grows, you come to see that it is has three dimensions. It
is a sphere.
Look deeply into the blue
sphere. Clear your mind. With crisp clarity, you realize
that the blue sphere is the Earth.
Ever so slowly, you feel your
body beginning to move toward the Earth. All it takes is the
slightest thought and, effortlessly, your body begins to move. You are still thousands of miles away, but becoming perceptibly closer
with every breath. As you approach the Earth, you reach your
hands out toward it. You can see your hands outstretched. You envision your hands cupping the Earth. The white clouds
are swirling around its edges, its surface a deep blue. Sense
your body, its position,– your hands floating in front of you. You
curl your legs into your belly. You see the water, the land,
and the clouds. Relax into the beauty of this scene.
Breathe
deeply as an image of your child as a newborn appears before you. You notice your child’s beautiful features and that your child’s eyes
are closed, soft lids covering them lightly. Your newborn’s
eyes open and you smile.
Look at your beautiful child and gaze
gently into your child’s eyes. Study the lovely white space
at its edges. Can you feel the cool briskness of the clouds
that continually circle the Earth, producing rain and snow.
Now,
bring your awareness to the deep blue of your newborn’s eyes.
In those large round circles, can you envision the round, full, heavenly
Earth on which we live and which sustains every moment of our existence.
Continue to gaze into your child’s eyes. Breathing deeply,
look into your child’s black pupils and consider the vastness of space. From so small a place, a portal to the cosmos.
Smile
as you sense your child’s infinite presence, your child’s infinite
wisdom, your child’s infinite embrace.
Every time you
see or visualize your child, every time you look into your child’s
eyes, your awareness can open to the infinite in your child.
Breathe
deeply and slowly for a few minutes and contemplate whether the cosmos
gave birth first to your child or to the Earth.
--End of meditation