The Transparent Awareness of Being

We begin by sounding the name ‘I’ or ‘I am’ once and allowing our attention to be drawn to its referent. This is the practice of the presence of God, or simply resting in being as being. If we find ourself lost in thoughts and feelings, we just let them go and come back to being aware. Our thoughts and feelings are what we know, not what we are. In this yoga meditation, we then imagine that we are newborn infants with no memory or thoughts. There is only experience. We can say there is just the field of experience being pervaded by being. As a newborn, we don't have a feeling of being a person or a body or of being born or being in the world. The infant experiences raw sensation, but in the absence of thoughts and memories, it is not the sensation of something. We ask ourself, ‘Can we find an edge to the experience of sensing?’ We feel that the amorphous tingling sensation, that we will later conceptualise as the body, is completely pervaded by the emptiness of the field of experience, the transparent awareness of being,