Own Body Samadhi:
Sit in an easy position or lie down if possible. Go through your whole body starting with your forehead. On your in breath, slowly breath down the front of your chest until you reach your pubic bone. Check all the tension spots, contractions and areas with pain or discomfort. As you become aware of unpleasant feelings or sensations in your body, gently relax the muscles and breath into those areas until the tension or pain fades away. Go over every part of your body without exception, breathing in as you go down and breathing out as visualize your breath going up your spine. Feel your whole body, including inside of your body. Do it very slowly and patiently, down to your fingers and toes, front and back. Breathing in visualize your breath going down your frontal line, breathing out, visualize your breath going up your spine. Do it once and then over again. As you feel the front of your body relaxing on your in breath, notice your breath descending down your frontal line and as you breath out, notice your breath ascending up the back of your spine, over your head, then slowly descending down your frontal line once again. Continue this pattern until you feel all tension leaving your body. Breathing in … breathing out….
All beings are always already Happy. You always know, at this very moment you know exactly, what it would be to look and feel and be and act completely Happy. Yet your attention is wandering from that Happiness, wandering into the self-contraction, into the not-self or the objects of self-contraction, the dilemma, the problem, the troubles, the fear, sorrow, anger, mortal pursuits, obsessions, desires, consolations of mind, emotion, body. That is why you are un-Happy. Clearly, Happiness is not to be attained by meditating on un-Happiness (or the self-contraction), but just as clearly it is not to be attained by trying to protect yourself from feeling un-Happiness.
Happiness is presently the case. In this moment you are already Happy. Feel where it is that you are now Happy. Look for it in your toes, in your fingers, in your shirt, in your head. Look for it in the chakras, your stomach, your desires, your wife, your husband, your relations, your pain, your pleasure. Find it. You are Happy. Where are you being Happy? Where is the actual feeling of Happiness? Simply locate it and meditate on it, feel it. Observe the mechanism of your un-Happiness, so that you will not then go and try to become Happy, but will rather, having understood un-Happiness, become capable of locating Happiness. Find “where” you are Happy - completely Happy, already, now. Contemplate and feel into that Happiness.
From the book: The Bodily Location of Happiness by Bubba Free John
Awakened Heart
“God is Spirit, or the Living Radiance in which the world and all beings are arising. God, or the Truth that is Reality, is the Light-Energy or Radiant Life Power in which every thing and every one arises, changes disappears, and always inheres. As such, God is always accessible to living beings via the exercise of total psycho-physical surrender, expressed through the central process of whole bodily ecstasy, or self-transcending feeling and breathing.
God is Transcendental Being, with which the world and all beings are ultimately identical. As such, God is to be realized in the total transcendence of psycho-physical experience, such that the essential or "inner" being (prior to identification with the self-defining limits of the body-mind) Awakens or Yields into the Supreme Condition of Infinite Transcendental Being.
God is the Truth of the world and all beings. The Way of Life in Truth is the Way of Divine Love-Communion, or feeling-surrender of the body-mind into the All-Pervading Life-Radiance with every breath. If this is done to the point of ecstasy, the body-mind or psycho-physical self swoons beyond the limiting force of its contractions and Awakens into its inherent identification with Transcendental Being. Then the body-mind and the world cease to be a dilemma or obstruction to Truth, Happiness, Bliss, and Freedom--and whatever arises as experience suddenly becomes a transparent force, a superficial modification of Radiant Transcendental Being. One who is thus Awake abides in native identification with Transcendental Being (prior to the psycho-physical or experiential self), and even the body-mind is constantly Transfigured by the Free Radiance or unobstructed Spirit that is naturally released to it in the Full Mood of Love“.
The Awakened Heart Enlightens and dissolves the Body-Mind
When the ego, or our fear-based self-contraction is transcended, the body-mind or “I” becomes love, or a truly and uniquely human presence. That IS what is ultimately Divine. If we will transcend that self-contraction and be given up to love and participate in what IS, prior to the self-contraction, then we will swoon in the immense spiritual reality. That Reality is what IS, and IT is obvious when the self-contraction releases.
Be dissolved in the Radiance and Consciousness that is beyond all knowledge. Surrender into the Transcendental Current of Life.
Feel the Spirit-Presence that is making everything happen; that is responsible for what is arising.
All-Pervading Current of Life, Consciousness where I appear and disappear, hear my breathing heart. Awaken me, to feel the heart of Light and Love, where this Life and mind and body may dissolve. I hold up my hands.
Bubba Free John
TRANSCENDING EXPERIENCE
