Experiencing the Unbound Presence of Awareness

The belief that I am a temporary, finite, separate self is accompanied by the feeling that I am this limited body. The sense of being a separate self and the sense of living in a physical body go hand-in-hand. Thus, as we expand from feeling ourself as a separate self to feeling ourself as open, empty, luminous awareness, there is a corresponding expansion of the sense of our body. The universe becomes our body, and not in a theoretical sense; we actually feel the entire universe as our body. Our body loses its feeling of contraction and limitation, and expands to include everything. In the Tantric tradition it is recognised that we can co-operate with this expansion of the body; the yoga meditations facilitate this sense of expansion. In this meditation we come to understand and feel our self to be the open, empty, luminous, unbound presence of awareness.