Beloved, at this moment let mind, knowing, breath, form, be included.
- The instruction: Sit with closed eyes. Include everything that is — body, breath, thought, knowing, form. Don’t fragment (‘this is not me’); say ‘I am all’ and feel it. Don’t get centered anywhere — be uncentered, without an anchor-point. With the center gone, ego goes; only consciousness remains, like a sky covering everything.
- The felt sign: With eyes closed the body’s felt size shifts — sometimes huge, filling the room; sometimes atomic, shrinking; heavy or light. More inclusion expands the sense of being; more exclusion contracts it. This changing form is the marker that attention, not anatomy, is shaping your boundary.
- Expanding outward: After your own inner phenomena, extend to outer objects — look at a tree, close the eyes, feel the tree is within you. The inner image starts as a faint shadow but with practice grows more vivid than the outer, because it is now rooted in consciousness itself, which becomes its soil. A focused inner bud will actually bloom — into a flower you cannot meet outside.
- Why this is not imagination: Everything you perceive is decoded inside you — ‘green’ is not in the tree but arises where light-rays from it meet your eye and your nervous system translates them; the same for scent. You have never been outside your mind, so the whole world already exists within. Ramteerth’s ‘The Himalayas are in me’ is therefore factual, not poetic inflation.
- The outcome: When boundaries dissolve, individual consciousness drops into its collective ground — we look like separate islands but are joined underwater. Include the whole universe and individual misery disappears, because individuality itself has dissolved. Make inclusiveness a style of life, not just a sitting practice.
- From Q&A — start from the friend, not the enemy: The enemy is the last step of inclusion, not the first; the mind jumps straight to the impossible (‘how can I include my enemy?’) precisely so it can dismiss the whole practice. Start from the friend — and notice even that is hard, because the real issue is not whom to include but your own openness: even with a beloved you stay guarded, keeping secrets, making security arrangements. Inclusion means dropping that fear.
- From Q&A — include the negative, don’t disown it: You own the good (‘I am love’) but disown the bad (‘I am angry’ — as if anger were an accidental visitor from outside). Reverse it: say ‘I am anger, I am hate, I am jealousy, I am violence.’ This is true — the energy is yours — and it instantly collapses the false self-image, because the ego cannot survive alongside ‘I am violence.’
- From Q&A — express, but alone, not on others: The person who triggers you is not the cause, only the instrument (nirmit) — the hate is already yours. Suppression is poison (it festers into madness); venting on others creates a vicious circle. Instead express meditatively and alone: take a pillow, name it the person, beat it fully — but stay fully alert throughout. Done authentically, you emerge feeling loving toward the real person.
- From Q&A — alertness is the transformer: Energy is neutral — the same energy becomes anger when you are unaware and alertness when you are conscious. So the instruction is not ‘don’t be angry’ but ‘while angry, be alert’: watch the anger fully, and at the peak of alertness it cannot exist, the energy being absorbed by the watching itself. This is the deep mechanism of inclusive awareness — include the negative fully, watch it fully, and the watching dissolves it.