Meditation: Becoming a Vessel of Light

Take a few minutes to relax and become centered by paying attention to your breath...notice any tensions, tightness or holdings in your body and just allow yourself to deepen into a state of relaxation, allowing yourself to breath effortlessly...With each in-breath imagine that you are breathing in the divine out-breath and with each out-breath imagine that you are sending your breath back to its source in the divine...

Now imagine that above your head flows a river of white light, flowing from the heavens down to the crown of your head where it enters your body and begins to fill you with light, filling every organ and indeed every cell of your body with radiance and warmth, bringing healing energy to your entire body and your entire being.....As this light fills you, see yourself as a radiant and luminous being of light....Now imagine that you are also surrounded by light in all directions so that you are both filled with light and surrounded by light....

Let yourself bask in the light of the infinite, the "Or Ein Sof,"" and feel your body becoming lighter and lighter as you rest in the radiance of God's loving presence...

(Optional for healing) Now let yourself also become a channel for healing, allowing yourself to both receive and send healing energy out into the universe...You may wish to picture a person or persons to whom you wish to send healing energy....As you hold them in your mind and heart, share your light with them....Send them healing energy through the light emanating from your hands and fingertips....Let yourself both receive and send blessings for a complete healing--"refuat ha'nefesh urefuat ha'guf" --a healing of body and soul.

As you bring this meditation to a close, become aware once more of your breath and the boundaries of your body...the gentle rise and fall of your chest...become aware of your presence in the room where you are sitting and then gently open your eyes...

With each in-breath imagine that you are breathing in the divine out-breath and with each out-breath imagine that you are sending your breath back to its source in the divine...

Now imagine that above your head flows a river of white light, flowing from the heavens down to the crown of your head where it enters your body and begins to fill you with light, filling every organ and indeed every cell of your body with radiance and warmth, bringing healing energy to your entire body and your entire being.....As this light fills you, see yourself as a radiant and luminous being of light....Now imagine that you are also surrounded by light in all directions so that you are both filled with light and surrounded by light....

Let yourself bask in the light of the infinite, the "Or Ein Sof,"" and feel your body becoming lighter and lighter as you rest in the radiance of God's loving presence...

Let yourself both receive and send blessings...

Milarepa wrote:Good Find! It'd be real interesting to see where this meditation orginitated from, maybe we should enquire with the site owners/ sorry if it shows info already on site, i'm on instant messegner with my self defence teacher, so can't check it!

Hi Colin, Thanks for your interest...The meditation I put on my website is adapted from a kabbalistic meditation brought down in Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's book on Jewish meditation from a medeival spanish kabbalist called R. Azriel of Gerona who wrote The Gate of Kavanah--see p. 119 in Meditation and Kabbalah by Kaplan. Glad to know we are on the same page spiritually. Best, Estelle Frankel

Frank wrote:Thanks for posting this!
Nice to see the similarities.

I would like to add that this version seems more like the Hatsurei Hō version as taught by Hiroshi Doi to the West and by Frans/Bronwen Stiene, Frank Petter and such.
It is less similar to the Gakkai version I learned and try to practise on an daily basis. The Gakkai version does not include visualisation at any point.

Visualizing keeps the mind occupied, whereas the whole idea of the first steps of Hatsurei Hō is to get into something we could call a "pure mind" (Jōshin....).

*Gasshō*
Frank