Today I started teaching a fresh online session of morning quickie kundalini, and as I was preparing, it hit me that I wanted to share a tiny reading at the beginning of class.
Then I realized… whoa, I haven’t even wanted to pick a reading for so long, much less read it aloud in class, thanks to the darkness of utter disbelief in anything but the material world that has been plaguing me for the last few years. (I wrote about my sudden release from depression related atheism in the previous post.)
This felt like a big deal… yet another layer of change or another layer of becoming myself again.
And when I was explaining this at the beginning of class, the glee with which long term students reacted to my little announcement confirmed my feeling that we’d all been missing this.
If you’ve been in classes with me, you know I select these randomly by letting the book fall open or having someone yell out a page number.
So here’s the one I read this morning. It’s from this book, which is one of my favorites ever.
Radiance Sutra #61
Adorable one,
Sit or lie down, completely immobile,
Beholding the cloudless sky —
Or if there are clouds, the sky beyond.
As vastness envelops you,
The body vanishes,
Thoughts forget to come.
In this moment,
You are the nature of the great sky.