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Guided Non-Dual Meditation Practice for Regular Use at Home. In Hebrew

It is easy to assume that meditation practice is another project and a training that is a bit of a burden, especially in the context of our daily life. Non-dual meditation practice goes in another direction and is a good reminder that meditation need not be hard work. Although it does not mean that at other times we will benefit from practice, which does need some determination and consistent practice. Non-dual meditation, based on Mahamudra and Dzogchen, is a glorious attitude of allowing our experience to be just what it is, and seeing the perfection in the moment. It is a reminder and a discovery of the nature of things within and without, and gives a lot of freedom.

Illumination and Compassion as Default When Everything Seems to be Going to Pieces

When things get really difficult, whether personally, such as sickness, or socially, such as violent conflict, it can feel hard to engage in normal psychospiritual development practice. We may feel too exhausted, agitated or disturbed to sit in meditation, or we may feel numb, reactive and overwhelmed. In such situations, the dharma is actually needed more than ever. It can be lifesaving. But it is not practice as usual. Compassion can kick in when everything else doesn't work. We can feel compassion for our numb, dried-out and contracted heart and soul, and for all others caught in the same situation. We can radiate healing for ourselves and all others. We can go into the shelter when the rockets are falling with deep compassion and kindness for ourselves and others there, and for all caught up in it, on all sides. Illumination is simply the ability to see things clearly as they arise, even if difficult and disturbed, as a changing field of sensations and awareness, that doesn't need us to construct summaries, narratives and views. Something breaks through, and we can feel the sadness and the richness of these moments, however troubling they are. It takes us to a bigger place, and we can look at things both from above and below.

Non-Dual Guided Meditation 1. Shining the Light on Our Experience. Dropping into Being.

This non-dual guided meditation is bilingual - English with some Hebrew. It is a reminder that if we drop completely into this spontaneous moment, we discover a completeness and a total presence. We see how we shine the light on everything that arises. We can get closer to the light itself. This is bodhicitta, awakened awareness.

Non-dual Guided Meditation 2. Resting in Awareness. Surrender to What Arises. Welcome Everything As It Is. מדיטציה מונחית לא־דואלית 2: מנוחה במודעות. התמסרות למה שעולה. קבלת הכול כפי שהוא.

This guided non-dual meditation is in Hebrew and English. It emphasises deep resting in the primal awareness and presence that holds us. It guides us to trust and explore the nature of presence and awareness itself, not just what the awareness knows. In the well-known language of Krishnamurti, we can go beyond the duality of the observer and the observed and be within observation itself. This is a pure, open and free movement of knowing itself.

Non-Dual Guided Meditation 3. מדיטציה מונחית לא־דואלית 3: נוכחות, מחסה ונינוחות בתרגול חיי היומיום. הקשבה לחייםPresence, Refuge and Ease in Daily Life Practice. Listening to Life

This guided meditation is mostly in Hebrew. It is designed to help us practice open non-dual awareness at home and in daily life. We can start with refuge and coming home to presence. We practice welcoming and allowing the richness of this moment, and let go of struggle to practice in a certain way or to fight distraction. We rest in is-ness, in the kaleidoscope of experiences that come and go, and we remain at ease and open and letting go into this boundless life.