The Self of Everybody Is Your Self

In this meditation, we understand and feel that the aware being that we know our self to be is the same being of all people and animals. The self of everybody is our very own self. In this felt understanding, we wish everyone the same happiness as we extend the circle of love beyond those nearest and dearest to us to include all. We see that the activities of thinking and perceiving refract and fragment this one self into an apparent multiplicity and diversity of names and forms, which appear separate from and other than our self. Here we see through the appearance of things to their reality and find the same being that we know our self to be.