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please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. I call the Big Mind Game and it's an exercise or a way of establishing the mind in a very deep and still kind of balance. Perhaps it will give you a different perspective on what's possible in the practice.

To begin, please take a position in which you'll be able to sit still and reasonably

straight.

It's helpful very much if you don't have to move. Let your eyes close softly.

Imagine your mind to be like a clear empty sky without limits and begin by being aware of all the sounds in the room, the sound of my voice. I'm going to Keep your eyes very soft without strain or tension, and let the different sounds arise and pass away by themselves

in that clear empty space of the mind. I'm going to Let the mind be very still, allowing the sounds to arise your mind be soft and let listening happen by itself. I'm going to I'm going to Your mind is like a clear empty sky and sounds are rising and passing away in a clear empty space. Oh, I'm going to Thank you. Keep the mind still and motionless, allowing all the sounds loud and soft to arise and pass away without naming them or judging them, simply listening. I'm going to All sounds are coming and going by themselves.

Keep the mind still.

Let the sounds pass through. I'm going to The mind is like space in that space and pass away. Yeah. The space of mind reaches out to encompass all the sounds that are heard. In the clear, empty space of mind, become aware of physical sensations like points of feeling. Sensations are points of feeling like stars in the sky.

Allow them to arise and pass away in this big space of mind. I'm going to Sounds come and go, and go, sensations arise and pass away in the empty space of mind.

There are no boundaries of inside or outside.

Trust objects arising and passing away in the empty space of Big Mind. I'm going to Keep the mind perfectly still, not moving toward or away from any object.

Let the sounds and sensations appear and disappear by themselves. I'm going to Sound. Sounds come and go and go, sensations arise and pass away.

The clear empty space of mind is unmoved.

There is no head, no arms, no legs, no back, no front.

Only sensations, points of feeling, arising in the big empty space of limitless mind. I'm going to Sounds, sensations, sensations.

There are no boundaries, no inside, no outside.

Simply objects arising. no outside, no outside.

Simply objects arising and passing

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