Module 13: Episode 9 - Who Are You Without the Story?
Module 13: Episode 9 - Who Are You Without the Story?
Embodied Mindfulness Meditation
Module 13: Episode 9 - Who Are You Without the Story?
Dina Asher Kusnir
This meditation invites you to a question that appears deceptively simple, yet has the power to dissolve an entire identity
When we begin meditation, we often think we are learning to quiet the mind. But perhaps we are learning something much more radical: how to recognize what remains when the mind is no longer defining who we are
The body is less a possession than a continuation of an ancient unfolding.
Then notice the breath.
An inhalation arrives.
An exhalation leaves.
The same air that has circled mountains, crossed oceans, moved through forests, filled the lungs of animals, ancestors, strangers, and children now moves through you. Nothing separates "your" air from the atmosphere itself. Breath simply enters the vessel and leaves again.
The meditation closes on a freeing note: there's no state to reach and nothing to achieve. You're already what you're looking for, and always have been — like clouds endlessly forming and dissolving, nothing solid, nothing permanent, nothing missing.
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