Day 9 – The Matrix of Manifestation
“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.” — G.K. Chesterton
Message of the Day
The skill of manifestation is in using our awakened self-awareness. There are three components to this awareness: expanded consciousness, focused consciousness, and fluid consciousness. The unity of these three creates the matrix of manifestation. Today we will learn about the first aspect: unbounded awareness. This unbounded awareness is our silent, expanded self. It is the un-manifest potentiality from which everything emerges. In today’s meditation, we will open up to this still, pure self and begin to know it as a unified field of infinite possibilities. In time our meditation experience will mature, and we will learn to think and act from this creative silence, while the mind remains quiet and calm. Our awareness stays unbounded even when the mind has an intention or desire
CENTERING THOUGHT
I am pure unbounded awareness.
SANSKRIT MANTRA
Om Hreem
I see the unity behind diversity.
Journal Questions
Think of an experience you had when you were in nature, when your mind and entire sense of being felt connected to the rhythm and flow of its movement. It could be watching a river, the drifting clouds, or the surf coming onto the shore. Write about this experience in your journal and what that connection to nature felt like to you. This is the experience of connecting to universal self.
Consider another experience in nature, like the one you wrote about above, where you not only felt connected with the movement of nature, but you felt your thoughts, feelings, and actions were also a part of that grand unity – the way a surfer becomes a part of the ocean’s waves as he rides them in. This is what it feels like to think and act within universal awareness.
There are other times in daily life that we can function within unbounded awareness even if we are not in nature. These are called peak experiences and they can happen anywhere, at any time. Athletes may experience them at certain moments in a game when they transcend their normal talents – time slows and they feel calm inside, even with the roar of the crowd around them. Write about a peak experience you may have had in your life and how it impacted you.
Reflect further.