Riding the Breath

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Riding the Breath

• What did the Dalai Lama say to the hot dog
  vendor?
• Make me one with everything.
• Its a jokeand a pretty good onebut theres
  more to it than that. Becoming one with
  everything by seeing through separateness and
  rigidity is the heart of what I call
  inter-meditation. Inter-meditation means
  meditating withthe practice and art of intimacy
  and union with whatever is, just as it is. It is
  the yoga of convergence, connection,
  co-meditation, and spontaneous oneness. Its a
  path we can take to overcome all our illusions of
  duality.
• I call my new book Make Me One with Everything
  Buddhist Meditations To Awaken From The Illusion
  Of Separation because the heart of this message,
  in essence, explains the power of
  inter-meditation and that we are not alone.

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This allows us to go beyond the habitual struggle
to try to meditate and concentrate, or go inwards
and cut off and get away from it all, and helps
us open the cocoon of contracted egotism in order
feel more permeable and connected, empathic and
responsible, recognizing interconnectedness and
interdependence. It takes two parts to make a
whole, beyond us and them, inside and outside, as
well as between the so-called sacred and the
mundane parts of life, and it can become more
like breathing in and out or dancing together,
and dancing with life. "Everything can be
meditated, as the Dragon Master Gyalwang Drukpa
Rinpoche says in his Mahamudra teachings. I hope
you will join me in experiencing this inclusive
Riding the Breath co-meditation method for
closing the gaps between self and others, opening
portals to oneness and harmony, wherever we may
go. This is the path beyond selfish seeking and
self-consciousness and on to Dharma Large,
selfless Awareness, and shared spirituality,
spirituality for couples, tantra and so on.
-with love and blessings, Lama Surya Das