Preparing Yourself and Your Room for Vipasana

Preparing for Vipasana means opening up your entire self-heart-body, mind, heart and soul. The sacred marriage is the dynamic and endlessly fertile dance of seeming dualities that are secretly interconnected: transcendence and immanence, absolute and relative reality, light and matter, masculine and feminine, mind and heart, soul and body. It is the ecstatic dance, the mystics of all traditions tell us, that is ceaselessly birthing the universes and appearing as them in every cell of the body.  ​

As the Hindu mystic Jnaneshwar wrote:
Without the God
There is no Goddess,
And without the goddess, 
There is no god. 
How sweet is their love!
The entire Universe
is too small to contain them,
Yet they live happily
in the tiniest particle
 
In a time like ours, the creation of sacred space is not only an act of celebration of the sacred marriage, it is an urgent prayer for sacred space. Knowing and feeling this will lend your practice, from the beginning, a heightened calm intensity and clarity. Your practice not only transforms yourself but also transforms the unjust and oppressive conditions of the world that creates suffering.
Setting your intention for your practice creates a space where you are going to experience your body as a temple. That body will radiate light to ourselves and to others. Create an alter that inspires you. Images of Gods and goddesses, photos of family and friends, candles and special stones, anything that speaks to you of illumination, inspiration and sacred presence.
When beginning your practice enter into a space that is the present moment. In silence, tune in to your heart and allow it to form and intention that will guide your practice. At first you may not be certain of your intention but allow yourself be guided and it will come to you. One suggested prayer from the Buddhist tradition ‘May from the merits of my practice all sentient beings everywhere be liberated from suffering” or from the Christian position St Frances prayer “Lord make me an instrument of your peace.
Resistance is experienced by all of us from time to time. On those occasions simply feel the sensation, do not identify with it, as if that is all you are. Use the breath to release the resistance. Respond to the pain with compassion. Your breath will reveal to you subtle truths about your body and emotions if you keep listening to and observing it.
O Friend, understand : the body
is like the ocean,
rich with hidden treasures.
                                                          MiraBai
In ending your practice be compassionate to yourself. You will become aware of your authentic self. You will experience love for yourself and all those around you will feel that love.
 
References
Heart Yoga, the sacred marriage of Yoga and Mysticism: Andrew Harvey and Karuna Erickson IBSN 978-1-55643-897-4
A Guide to Sacred Activism: the Hope: Andrew Harvey IBSN 978-1-84850-106-5

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