Breath Awareness Practice › Close your eyes. Seating yourself in a comfortable position, place your hands in your lap or high on your thighs. Take a few deep belly breaths inhaling and exhaling as thoroughly as possible. Feel your feet on the ground while noticing the support of the floor in the building you are in. See if you can feel the support

this direct experience of true reality, opened to a further realization: everything and everyone is made of pure, connected, unified, unconditioned love and innate goodness. This brought tears of unsurpassed joy, relief, and profound trust in the benevolence of the universe.

Breath awareness meditation is quite simple in its instruction: “Breathe, and know you are breathing, right now, in the region between the nostrils and upper lip.”

There was no me doing anything! It felt as though my consciousness, my soul, exhaled fully all the pent-up anxiety about what I could see was strictly a concept—that I was the doer of my life. I was not the doer. There was no doer. There had never been a doer.

“Produce the thought that is nowhere supported.”

Innate Goodness Practice › Close your eyes. Seating yourself in a comfortable position, place your hands in your lap or high on your thighs. Take a few deep belly breaths inhaling and exhaling as thoroughly as possible. Feel your feet on the ground while noticing the support of the floor in the building you are in. See if you can feel the support

In short, the Awakening was a series of realizations that (1) I was not a me, (2) no one was a me, and (3) everything and everyone is an undivided expression of the wholeness of pure unconditioned love and innate goodness. These realizations were my true identity! This was the base reality of all life-forms.

In the moment of Awakening, while my consciousness was landing more fully in the absence of a self, another realization flashed into my consciousness. Everything and everyone is without a me, a separate and distinct self.

I had a teacher suggest that I maintain an 80/20 rule. This means that I maintain 80 percent of my awareness on my inner processing and experiences and place, at most, 20 percent of my awareness on the person I am interacting with or other external interactions.