This meditation introduces the theme of the soul, which will be developed over the next two meditations. Many people question me on the notion of soul and its place in Full-Presence Meditation. In this meditation, we assume a unity between the body and the mind, without which there would be no soul. We step out of the binary system that separates the body from the mind, towards a third vision that associates in a same wholeness the body, the mind and the soul.
Method
Considering that body-mind unity is constitutive of the soul, I took great care to establish conditions that facilitate this unity through the connection with the silence, the relationship with the relaxed motionlessness of the body and the dynamic link that arises between the motionless posture of the body and the mind. And so, using the five dynamic factors of meditation: silence, sustained attention, motionlessness, quality of presence and emergence of the inner movement, we explored through metaphore the premise of the garden of the soul.
Chosen extracts
We all need calm and silence in our lives And we appreciate this moment that we offer ourself, and that we also offer ourself in order to recharge, to step back, to distance ourself from our problems, to shelter. It’s like a cabin at the bottom of our garden in which we can go when we want to be alone facing ourself, with ourself, for ourself. facing ourself, with ourself, for ourself.
When we enter into a relationship of presence with the silence, the silence becomes active. It is not just a place of silence, it is a place in which we can recharge, that apeases the mind and animates the soul.
The stability of your motionlessness gives you the sense of being stable in your mind. Your mind becomes peaceful as the stillness of your body becomes stable.
Appreciate this moment of bodily tranquility, appreciate the marriage between silence, sustained attention and the motionlessness of your body. This bodily stillness is very very important in Full-Presence Meditation. It enables the mind to become peaceful and unifies the body and the mind, a prerequisite to exploring the soul. And this motionlessness opens the door to the driving force of the soul animating and revealing iself, as a movement that you may feel within your matter.
We all have a place to shelter within ourselves, we need to seek it, to find it, to build it and to inhabit it.
We cannot talk of soul if we separate the body and the mind. The union of body and mind is constitutive of the soul.
Danis Bois
