March 2008

Ecstatic Presence Empowerment for Play:An Awakened Heart Meditation for Cultivating Compassion

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Meditate like a Zen monk at the touch of a button.

This meditation is modeled on the loving kindness meditation from Ezra Bayda's book, Being Zen, and further modeled on many practice for what in Buddhism is called generating bodhicitta.

This Awakened Heart meditation is designed to encourage awakening, develop presence, and to cultivate compassion. Bring your whole self to this experience, and come fully present in what is.

Before beginning the recitation of each line of the prayer/mantra/meditation, take a full breath in. Release the breath gently as you recite the line. Allow a pause between recitation of lines as you become conscious in drawing a deep, full, gentle breath. Become conscious of the words you are speaking as they form in your mouth and leave your lips, powered and empowered by your breath.

The second set of the meditation can be repeated as many times as you want, and may be used to bring your practice of compassion into fullness. I recommend that you devote each round of the second set to only one person, and repeat it as many times as you desire, or have the "bandwidth" for.

A practice that I find healing and consciousness-raising is to devote the first round of the second set to someone I love with no resistance - one of my daughters, for example. Then with each additional round, i stretch my compassionate heart a little wider, including those who I may have recently felt some conflict with. Then to those beings - living or dead - who may really stretch my compassion.

If it works for you to visualize the person you are dedicating the round to, do so. You may want to imagine your compassion and love pouring out with your breath, and enveloping the recipient with gentle, glowing light.

On the third round, if it helps you to increase the awakening of your heart, you may visualize the earth, the galaxy, the universe, all that is.

Enjoy your practice. May this act benefit all beings.

May I be present in the awakened heart.
May I address that which clouds the awakened heart.
May I experience this moment as it is.
May this act benefit all beings.

May you be present in the awakened heart.
May you address that which clouds the awakened heart.
May you experience this moment as it is.
May this act benefit all beings.

May all beings be present in the awakened heart.
May all beings address all that which clouds the awakened heart.
May all beings experience this moment as it is.
May this act benefit all beings.

I am present in the awakened heart.
I address all that which clouds the awakened heart.
I experience this moment as it is.
This act benefits all beings.

(peace. passion. presence.)



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Lasara Firefox is a trainer/master practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming/Patterning , life coach, and seminar designer and facilitator. In addition to being a mom, a published author (Sexy Witch, Llewellyn, 2005 - soon to be published in three additional languages), and an educator and activist, LaSara is founder and CEO of two international companies; the Ecstatic Presence Project and Global Family Awakening: an educational, peace and humanitarian family adventure club.

LaSara lives in a community of extended family with her partner, Robert Allen of Rogue Tantra, and two bright and beautiful daughters in Mendocino County, CA. She teaches and coaches internationally. LaSara believes that the most revolutionary - and evolutionary - act we can engage in is to become healthy, strong and empowered.

To get more info about LaSara, check www.lasara.us. To find out more about Global Family Awakening, visit GlobalFamilyAwakening.com.


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