A Talk to Open When You Don’t Know What to Do with Your Consciousness (2/4)

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(Continued from last time)

★Image training for living with cosmic consciousness

Now, as a way for you to grasp the reality of that light (your true self) with a consciousness that still thinks in terms of the physical body, let’s do some image training together.

If you can picture it with a clear heart, free of doubt, then from today on, whatever thoughts, words, and deeds of whomever you witness—even if the person in front of you throws karmic thoughts, words, and deeds right at you—and whatever events happen before your eyes, you can recognize all of it as a process by which the whole universe evolves and creates, and to look at it with a divine heart that gently wraps and embraces it.

Ready?

First, let’s set the scene.

Once you’ve secured a quiet space and time, with as few people around as possible, close your eyes while breathing slowly and deeply.

Inside the bathroom, in the bath, or in bed is fine too.

You can sit or lie in whatever position is comfortable.

All right, let’s begin.

What we’re going to do now is see the person who disturbs your peace of mind as a piranha, the fierce fish that lives in the Amazon River, and picture yourself as a cute little fish that would be eaten in one bite if it met a hungry piranha.

Can you vividly picture the scene in the river?

That little fish is exactly the size of your consciousness right now. (The point to practice when you recognize this is not to pass judgment of good or bad, like or dislike, but simply to see it as it is: “I see, so that’s how it is.”)

Once you can do that, erase that image from the screen of your mind and move on to the image of the next scene.

Next, while still seeing the other person as the same unmanageable piranha, picture yourself this time as the Amazon River itself, and let your imagination expand until you can really feel it.

……

How is Mr. Piranha doing?

However hungry it is, that piranha can’t eat you, and is swimming around looking for other food, isn’t it?

From your standpoint, you can see that the piranha, which was a troublesome opponent until now (when you were a little fish), is, now that you have become the river itself, just one cute fish among the many living things that live within your body (the whole Amazon River).

Even if that piranha noticed that you, once a little fish, had transformed into the river itself, and however much it charged at you, the river, and bit at you, it would only gulp down mouthfuls of river water—it couldn’t eat you, the river itself.

Which means (coming back to real consciousness from here) that as long as you make the real mass of the consciousness you feel larger, whatever the other person does to you, you won’t be shaken in the least. (To be continued next time)