Nothing About Ourself Needs to Be Changed

In this meditation, we feel our self as the openness within which all experience arises, never resisting what is present and never seeking what is not present. This openness knows no suffering; its nature is peace. Nothing needs to be changed about ourself or our circumstances in order to be established in this peace. The purpose of these yoga meditations is to know, at the level of the body, that consciousness, God's presence, is the ultimate reality of the universe. The three categories of experience – mind, body and world – all arise in this aware field. Everything exists and is made of this awareness. In the highest form of yoga, we take a stand as this openness and feel and move in this felt understanding. It is the yoga for which all other yoga is a preparation.