Spiritual Meditation CD Script

Find a comfortable position in your favorite chair. Align your head, chest and neck in a straight line. Place your feet flat on the floor. Gently close your eyes. Move your attention to the chest area and focus on the heart center, the place where your spiritual heart is located. Breathe in and out of your chest, mouth closed, as though you are breathing in and out of your heart. As you breathe deeply, imagine your breath as a glowing mist, filling the air, providing the ground of being from which everything comes and into which everything ultimately goes. With every breath allow this glowing mist to flow freely into your heart. Fill yourself completely, allowing your whole being to fill. Breathe in this energy of the universe; it is the breath of God. Fill your entire body with every breath. When you exhale, release everything that has limited you from being who you really are. Breathe out your feelings of resentment and anger. Breathe out separateness and feelings of unworthiness. Exhale all of your attachments to your pain, whether emotional or psychological. Exhale your lust; your confusion. Breathe in God's breath and exhale everything that keeps you from knowing your oneness with God. Allow your breathing in and out to transform you.

Now allow the glowing mist to begin to condense in the middle of your heart and let it take the form of a tiny angel, an inch tall, sitting on a beautiful flower, right in the middle of your heart. Feel the radiance of this tiny being. Feel its calmness, its equanimity. Notice the light streaming forth, a radiant light coming from its entire being. Feel the deep peace that is emanating from this being. As you experience its deep peace, notice that this being in the center of your heart is a being of wisdom and compassion. It is sitting quietly, perfectly poised, and enfolding you in its tremendous compassion and love. Allow your self to feel and be filled with its compassion and love.

Now imagine this tiny being as growing in size. See it growing until it has filled your head, your abdomen, your arms and hands, your hips, legs, ankles and feet. Now, within your entire body sits a being of infinite wisdom, perfect compassion and perfect love. Within you is a being of light and perfect tranquility, a being of incomparable bliss.

In your mind now allow this being, and yourself with it, enlarge in size until your head reaches the top of the room and you are sitting beneath the floor. Everyone and everything in the room is contained within your body. All the sound, including the sound of my voice, are coming from within you. Experience your vastness, your peace, your compassion and tranquility.

Now let yourself enlarge again. Your head now touches the sky, blueness all around, until your entire city is within you. Look within and experience the homes, families and people, see the human condition. Notice the loneliness, the caring and joy, the violence and fear, the love of fathers and mothers for their children. See the anxiety and sickness around death. See and experience it all. Know that all of it is within you. Look with compassion, remaining in perfect peace, feeling the light flowing through your entire being, inside and out.

Now allow yourself to grow still larger. Feel and experience your vastness constantly increasing, until you are in the middle of a galaxy with your head among the planets. The entire earth is now a tiny sphere deep within you. All the mass of humanity lies within you. Experience the turmoil and the yearning. Feel the beauty and the happiness. As you occupy this galaxy, sitting in this universe, you are huge, silent, compassionate, peaceful, living, radiating light in all directions, allow the creations of all human minds be within you. See all of humanity with compassion and love.

Now begin to grow even more vast, until not just this one galaxy but all galaxies, all of the universe - anything you can conceive of, is inside you. You are everywhere and everywhen. You are the only one. Experience your aloneness, your silence, your peace. You are it all. You are everything. You are The Ancient One. You are all that is, all that ever was, all that will ever be. It is all a cosmic dance of your being. You are all of creation, all of wisdom. You hold all the feelings of the universe with infinite compassion.

Now allow even these boundaries to dissolve and flow into that which is beyond form, behind thought, beyond compassion, even beyond love and beyond God. Let is just all Be.

Begin now, very, very gently, to re-establish the form of your vast being, the One. Once again, all is within you. You are vast and silent, perfectly peaceful and tranquil. Begin to come back from beyond form. Gently and slowly come down in size until your head is once more among the planets and this earth is within you. Far down inside you once again, see all of humanity.

Continue to come down in size again, until your head is at the top of the room. Pause for a moment now, and from this place look down into the room and find the being you thought you were when you began this meditation. See that being and bring to bear all your love and compassion. See the journey of that being as it is living out this life. Look upon its plights, its doubts, its fears. Look at all the things it is attached to that keep it from being free. See how close it is to realizing who it really is. Look at the purity of that being's soul as it seeks for freedom and meaning. Now, from your vast height, reach down and very gently, using your imagination, place your hand very lovingly on the head of this being and bless it. Give it the blessing that in this lifetime it will fully know itself. Recognize that you in this moment are both that which blesses and that which is being blessed. Feel and experience both simultaneously.

Allow now that radiant being, which you have become, reduce in size until it once again fits inside the body you thought you were when you began this meditation. You continue to be a being of radiance. You continue to hold infinite wisdom which comes from being aligned with the truth, of compassion coming from that vast, formless One, from having experienced a love for all of creation. As you sit within the skin of that body, send that love and compassion to all beings everywhere. Allow peace and love and compassion to pour forth from your heart to the hearts of all who suffer. Include those for whom you have felt less than love for. Surround and fill their souls with light, love, and peace.

Allow your anger and your judgment to fade away and disappear. Now send this light and peace to those who are ill, those who suffer, to those who are lonely, to those who are afraid, and to those who have lost their way. Cast your blessings on all, for only then will be showered with blessings. Know that as you are giving, you are receiving more in return. Accept your responsibility to become an instrument of the universe, an instrument of light and love.

Allow now that perfect being, the tiny angel, assume its original form, one inch tall, sitting in your heart on a lovely flower, peaceful, radiating light, serene, tranquil and compassionate. This is your true self, a being of pure, perfect love. It is wisdom, This inner self of you is the part that knows everything. It is the only part of you that is really real. This is the one who is the flow of the universe. At any time, in any situation, all you need to do is to still your thoughts and this being is there, guiding you home. When you finally realize your true and perfect self, when the journey is finally over, you will have become totally one with this being, surrendered to the universe. At that special moment you will know that you and God and this inner being are One.

Now bring your attention up behind your eyes. Become aware of outer sounds. Stretch and move your feet and hands. When you are ready, open your eyes begin your new life.