S01/E28: “I Am Everything” – Union With All That Is

Introduction

Welcome back to Martfotai, a direct path to wholeness, inner freedom, and becoming.

Take a moment with me now. Sense your breathing without changing it. Let awareness settle through the body. Your presence provides everything needed for the work of this episode.

In the previous two episodes, we explored listening and looking as conscious disciplines. Listening received sound without commentary. Looking received sight without projection. These capacities opened the inner space and prepared the ground for a deeper recognition.

Today we move into the third Post Martfotai discipline. This discipline softens the boundary you have lived inside for your entire life. A boundary that feels personal and familiar. When examined directly, this boundary behaves differently from how it appears in imagination. It shows its flexibility. It shows its origin.

This discipline invites a shift in the way you meet each moment. The shift arises through direct experience. The body remains distinct. Relationships continue to function. Yet the sense of an inner chamber begins to release. Awareness reveals itself as the field in which all experience arises.

You will see that separation depends on attention and language. You will also see that unity arises naturally when you meet the moment without the usual interior fences. This recognition guides the entire episode.

We will enter this discipline step by step. First through understanding how separation is learned. Then through breath and sensing practices that reveal the deeper field. Finally through methods that allow unity to become lived and grounded.

Allow your attention to settle. You are ready to begin.

1. Where Separation Lives

The sense of separation begins with the body. Skin appears to divide an interior and an exterior. Inside feels like you. Outside feels like everything else. This impression forms early in life and becomes strengthened by habit and expectation.

Look more closely. Your body contains vast communities of living organisms. They support digestion, immunity, and the repair of tissue. They do not experience themselves as foreign. They function as part of a larger system. This alone loosens the idea of a fixed barrier.

Every cell in the body changes over time. The structure that carries your name today is different from the structure of years ago. Matter circulates. The form reshapes itself continuously. Continuity arises through memory and narrative, yet the physical boundary remains fluid.

Breathing reveals a deeper truth. The air that fills your lungs belonged to other lives moments earlier. That air moved through forests, oceans, and clouds. The water in your blood passed through soil and countless living forms. The minerals in your bones travelled across ages. You are built from ingredients shaped by the entire cosmos.

Early childhood offers another clue. A newborn experiences the world as one field. Sensation, sight, and sound arise together. As the child grows, bodily boundaries support safety and movement. Over time the function becomes identity. Identity becomes a fence.

Language reinforces this fence. Words such as my body and my thoughts create a sense of possession. Possession implies a territory. Territory implies a boundary. The boundary becomes the lens through which the world is interpreted.

You can verify this directly. Bring attention to your hand. Before naming it, sense the warmth and aliveness inside. These sensations arise without edges. When the thought my hand arrives, a conceptual line appears. The line lives in thought rather than sensation.

Try this with an object near you. Look at it before naming it. Pure colour and texture appear in a unified field. When the name arrives, separation appears.

This is where separation lives. It lives in the moment a name arises. It lives in the moment a concept claims ownership. It lives in the moment attention contracts around an idea of self.

As awareness deepens, the boundary softens. The world appears within the same field that receives your breath and your thoughts. The form remains distinct. Awareness reveals the unity that holds it all.

2. How Language Maintains the Fence

Language shapes the sense of self with remarkable force. Each word you use carries a subtle influence. Over time the influence becomes habitual. The habit becomes a lens through which everything is interpreted.

The word “my” builds the fence. My body. My thoughts. My feelings. My experience. Each instance creates a small contraction in attention. The contraction strengthens the sense of an inner chamber. The chamber arises through language rather than inherent reality.

Possessive forms repeat throughout the day. The repetition creates momentum. Momentum becomes identity. Identity becomes the centre around which the world divides.

Labels strengthen this further. I am this kind of person. I hold these views. Each statement places a boundary around something fluid and responsive. The label freezes the flow of experience into a fixed position. Over years, these labels weave together into a story about who you are and how the world works. The story feels solid, yet it remains a moving pattern of words.

Consider a morning routine. A thought appears. I am tired. Another follows. I am stressed. Another arrives. I am behind today. Each phrase carries possession. Tiredness is a passing state. Stress is a shifting sensation. Yet when the label arrives, the moment narrows. The boundary grows stronger. You move through the day as the one who is tired, stressed, behind, rather than as awareness meeting changing conditions.

Language shapes perception before perception shapes language. This is why silence remains one of the oldest practices across traditions. Silence allows perception to reveal itself before language claims it. In silence, experience opens. Words arrive later, and you can see them as movements rather than facts.

You can test this across a single day. Gently notice how often the words my, me, and I appear in your speech and inner dialogue. Notice the small shift in the body each time. A slight tightening in the chest. A subtle leaning inward. The recognition of these shifts begins to soften their grip.

Test this directly. Instead of my opinion, sense the opinion arriving. The experience feels lighter. The field feels more open.

This is how language shapes the fence. When its influence becomes visible, the fence softens. You remain capable of acting and choosing. You simply do so with awareness of the field that holds each moment.

3. The Breathing Bridge

Breath offers a direct entrance into the recognition explored in this episode. The practice draws on the simple movement of air between what you call inside and outside.

Sit with the spine naturally upright. Let the shoulders soften. Place attention at the nostrils or the chest. Take one slow inhale and feel awareness draw inward. Silently form the sound I as you breathe in. The intention is light and soft.

On the exhale, feel awareness extend through the whole body. Silently form the sound Am. Let the breath soften as it leaves you. Sense the space around the body as part of the same movement.

Acknowledge quietly that each breath gathers more of you. This intention provides direction and deepens participation.

Continue through several breaths. By the fourth or fifth breath, awareness gathers more fully. The inhale carries focus. The exhale carries expansion. A warmth may spread through the chest or spine. The breath becomes an instrument for drawing presence into the entire form.

As you move toward the eighth, ninth, and tenth breaths, the body may vibrate lightly with aliveness. Edges soften. Sensation flows through the body with ease. The breath feels continuous. Awareness widens. Inner and outer feel connected through the same movement.

This is the bridge forming. The breath no longer feels confined to the lungs. Breathing becomes a movement of the whole being.

Pause after the tenth breath and verify the shift. Notice the quality of attention. Notice the sense of unity in the body. Notice the brightness of sensation. Verification arrives through experience rather than analysis.

There is an advanced variation called the sip method. Take several small inhalations in succession, each one carrying the sound I. When your lungs feel full, exhale slowly with the sound Am. Awareness moves through the entire body in one sweep.

This method settles the whole being when done with sincerity. Presence fills the form with clarity.

Use this practice daily. Ten to twenty breaths. Each breath deepens recognition.

4. Light in Motion

Light reveals unity with great clarity. Movement in the world reflects movement within you. When you meet this consciously, the field of awareness expands with ease and steadiness.

Choose a natural scene when possible. A branch moving in the wind. A shadow shifting along a wall. A distant bird gliding across the sky. Let your eyes rest on the movement without naming it. Sense the rhythm. Notice rise and fall, sway and glide. Allow the movement to fill your vision until presence grows clear.

Now sense the movements within your own body. Your breath rises and falls. Your heartbeat pulses through the chest. Your shoulders soften with each inhale. Your weight settles through your seat or your feet. These inner movements provide a natural rhythm that supports attention.

Hold both streams at once. Outer movement and inner movement. As you maintain this dual awareness, something aligns. The rhythms meet. The body responds subtly to the world. A shared tempo becomes clear and the field feels unified.

This is light in motion. Inner and outer appear as expressions of one field. The sense of an internal observer loosens. The world draws you into presence through movement. The body answers with its own quiet rhythm.

Remain with this for a few minutes. The practice forms a bridge between attention and the world. When the bridge becomes steady, the sense of distance fades. You feel part of one continuous movement through which everything arises.

You can verify this in ordinary situations. At a crossing, watch the flow of people while sensing your breath. On a train, feel the motion of the carriage and the motion of your chest together. In a queue, notice the small shifts of bodies and the small shifts inside you. Each time you hold both, the field reveals itself.

This is the purpose of light in motion. The world becomes the doorway to presence. Movement reveals your depth.

5. Threefold Attention

Threefold Attention is an exercise first formulated by Russell A. Smith of THEDOG school, and brings the lower centres into alignment. Thought, feeling, and sensation begin to support one another. This alignment creates a presence that feels centred, grounded, and alive.

Begin with a steady rhythm. Walking works well. Breathing works well. Choose one and maintain a clear count. One. Two. Three. The count engages the moving centre and forms a stable thread for attention.

When the count becomes steady, open a second stream. Bring awareness to a sound in your environment. A distant voice, a hum, the movement of wind. Keep the count consistent and let the sound remain clear. Two streams now run side by side.

Introduce the third stream. Invite the heart to participate with a sense of appreciation for something dear to you, or even the simple sincerity of your practice. The emotional centre enters through warmth and openness.

The three currents move at their own pace. The mind counts. The senses receive. The heart softens. When these three remain active together, attention widens and the whole field feels unified.

Stage four draws the currents together. Thought moves with ease. Feeling warms the chest. Sensation steadies the body. The alignment feels like standing at the centre of yourself with full support from every direction. Presence fills the form with balance.

When the centres cooperate, subtle changes appear. You feel anchored yet free. You respond rather than react. The mind becomes clearer. The heart becomes steadier. The body rests more deeply. The cooperation changes the texture of experience and reveals a unified field beneath daily life.

You can bring this into real situations. While walking to a meeting, keep the count in the background, listen to the sounds around you, and hold a quiet warmth in the chest. During a simple task at home, feel the movement of your hands, hear the small noises in the room, and include a soft appreciation for the moment. These brief applications begin to stabilise the threefold state.

If the count grows forceful, soften it. If the emotional current becomes strong, return to sensation until balance returns. If the practice shifts into performance, pause and begin with a lighter touch.

Threefold Attention is a living exercise. Each session feels different. Each day the centres meet in new ways. The purpose is alignment. When the centres move together, presence strengthens and unity becomes easier to sense.

6. Seeing Through the Seer

There is a moment in any serious inner work when you begin to sense that awareness stands prior to every experience that moves across the inner field. This moment does not arrive through effort. It arrives through clear observation. When you place attention on your own experience with steadiness, something reveals itself naturally.

Begin with your thoughts. Let one thought move through the mind. Watch it from the place where thoughts are known. A sentence forms, yet something sees it. A memory appears, yet something receives it. That which sees the thought is silent. That which receives the memory is unchanged by it. You feel the movement of mind, yet you also feel the stillness at the centre of observation.

Now turn to sensation. Notice the texture of your breath. Notice the weight of your body. Notice the subtle tingling in the hands or face. Each sensation arises. Each sensation changes. Yet the awareness that receives them remains steady. It does not move with the sensations. It does not contract around them. It simply knows them as they pass.

Then turn to emotion. A feeling may rise in the chest or the stomach. Another may rise in the throat or the shoulders. Emotion has shape, temperature, and movement. Yet the awareness that perceives it remains open and spacious. The feeling may swell. The awareness does not swell. The feeling may soften. The awareness does not soften. It simply receives the entire event.

This simple observation reveals a crucial truth. Awareness cannot be located within the objects it receives. You look for the seer and find only seeing. You look for the one who knows and find only knowing. There is a clear experience of being present, yet this presence does not sit inside the head or inside the body. The body appears within it. The mind appears within it. The world appears within it.

Stay with this. Look at an object in the room. Sense the one who is looking. The gaze meets the object. Yet the seer remains open, quiet, and without form. Bring attention inward. Feel the body as an appearance within the same field that receives the object. The separation between seer and seen grows lighter. The sense of being an inner witness to an outer world softens.

This recognition has immense practical value. It brings ease in relationships. It brings clarity during conflict. It brings steadiness during intense sensation. When awareness is seen as primary, everything else becomes an event within a larger field. The field is continuous. The experiences are temporary. This creates freedom. You participate fully in life while remaining centred in the ground of awareness that holds it all.

Remain with this whenever you can. Don’t search for dramatic states. The recognition expresses itself through simplicity. A quiet moment. A clear breath. A calm gaze. Awareness reveals itself most clearly in these conditions.

Seeing through the seer means recognising the quiet ground that knows every movement.

7. Working with Resistance

Resistance appears whenever deeper recognition approaches. The form reacts. The emotions tighten. The mind sharpens its commentary. These movements do not indicate failure. They indicate transformation. The system begins to sense a shift in the familiar boundary. The shift awakens protective impulses. These impulses are natural. They reveal where attention and presence are needed.

Resistance takes many shapes. Sometimes it feels like tension in the chest or the throat. Sometimes it feels like a pressure in the head. Sometimes it feels like confusion or tiredness. Sometimes it arrives as irritation toward others. Sometimes it appears as a strong desire to leave the moment and return to familiar habits. All of these forms carry the same message. A deeper opening is available.

Begin with a direct example. Imagine you are in traffic and someone changes lanes in front of you with abrupt speed. The body responds quickly. Your shoulders tense. Your breath shortens. A wave of heat moves up the chest. These sensations arise before thinking has a chance to interpret anything. The form reacts to perceived threat. This moment offers a powerful opportunity.

Instead of collapsing into the reaction, widen your awareness. Feel the entire field of sensation. The tightness, the heat, the quickening breath, the pulse in the hands. Each sensation holds energy. Each sensation asks for your presence. Meet the moment with full attention. Let the breath slow naturally. Feel the weight of your body on the seat. Sense the space around you. As awareness widens, the experience becomes clear. The surge loses its urgency. The field gains depth. The reaction transforms into presence.

A second example often appears at work. Imagine you receive a message from a colleague that carries a sharp tone. The body reacts. A sense of defence rises. The mind prepares a fast reply. Emotion moves through the chest like a quick tightening. This is resistance in motion. It contains energy. It also contains information. Instead of responding from the tightening, remain with the entire experience. Feel the sensation in the chest. Feel the breath. Feel the space around your body.

When you hold the reaction with awareness, the emotional charge softens. The message becomes clearer. The situation feels larger than the first impulse. You respond with clarity. You choose words with steadiness. You act from presence rather than defence. This shift changes the entire interaction.

The deeper purpose of this practice is to meet resistance from wholeness. Wholeness feels like alignment. Wholeness feels like the body, heart, and mind moving together. Wholeness feels like breathing that rises and falls without strain. It feels like a steady centre that supports your responses. It feels like awareness that includes both your experience and the environment around you. When you act from this centre, life becomes more fluid. Choices become clearer. Relationships become more spacious.

You can verify this directly. The next time resistance arises, place a hand softly on your chest or your abdomen. Feel your breath under your hand. Feel the warmth of your body. Feel the movement of sensation. Then sense the wider space around you. The field becomes larger than the reaction. The reaction becomes one movement within that field. Presence holds the entire moment.

This approach strengthens your capacity to remain steady during challenge. Each time you meet resistance with awareness, the boundary becomes softer. The system learns to trust the wider field of presence. Resistance transforms into energy for deeper seeing. Awareness grows stronger, and the recognition of unity becomes more stable.

8. The Final Recognition

There is a moment in this work when the entire field gathers itself into one living presence. You sense your breath, and you sense the world around you, and both appear within the same open space. The inner flow and the outer movement stand together. Nothing competes. Nothing divides. Everything rests inside a single awareness that feels wide, steady, and complete.

The mind grows quiet in this moment, not through suppression, but through clarity. Thought continues, yet the thought arises as a movement inside the same field as sensation and sight. Emotion may stir in the chest or the belly, yet the emotion moves within the same awareness that holds the breath. You feel the entire field as one living reality. The sense of being an inner observer dissolves into a wider presence that includes everything at once.

Remain with this. Let the recognition reveal itself through direct experience. The space around you feels close, yet open. The body feels distinct, yet held. The world feels vast, yet familiar. Safe uncertainty. Presence fills the form from the inside and the outside simultaneously. The boundary grows transparent. The inner chamber feels spacious. A quiet fullness settles in the heart.

This is the recognition that shapes the work of this episode. You stand inside the world, and the world stands inside you. Every sound, every movement, every breath, and every sensation arises in the same field. You feel the unity of form and awareness. The field does not arrive from effort. The field reveals itself when the usual inner boundaries soften.

In this moment, you experience the heart of the teaching. Awareness holds everything. Awareness moves through everything. Awareness expresses itself through this form, this breath, this experience. The unity is not distant. The unity is here. You feel it as the centre of your being.

Let this recognition guide the rest of your day. Each movement, each interaction, each moment becomes part of the same continuous field. You are the field that holds it all. You are everything arising within everything.

Conclusion

Let us return to the moment where the world feels close and spacious at the same time. The moment when breath, sensation, thought, and sound stand together in one continuous field. You felt this earlier in the episode. A calm and peaceful widening. A quiet fullness. A sense that everything appears within the same awareness.

This is what life feels like when unity begins to stabilise. Experience still moves. Emotion still rises. Thought still appears. Yet the field remains centred. You sense the world clearly without contracting around it. You participate fully while resting in a deeper presence beneath every movement.

This recognition shapes your entire day. Your body carries a quieter rhythm. Your relationships feel clearer. Your decisions arise from a steady centre. You meet challenges from alignment rather than defence. You speak with more sincerity. You listen with more depth. You feel the world as part of you, and you feel yourself as part of the world.

Unity becomes practical. It shows up in the way you breathe during conflict. It shows up in the way you walk into a room. It shows up in the way you answer a message, begin a task, or meet a friend. Life continues, yet something in you feels anchored. Something feels open. Something feels whole.

This is the essence of I Am Everything. Awareness stands as the field that holds every moment. The form moves within that field with clarity. The world meets you through that field with ease. Presence becomes the foundation of your life. You feel supported by the same awareness that receives every breath and every sensation.

Allow this recognition to deepen over the coming days. Let your breath be the bridge. Let your senses be the anchor. Let your relationships be the mirror. Let daily life reveal the unity that runs through everything you meet. The field is here in every moment you remember to feel it.

If this episode awakened something in you, let that recognition continue. You can join the weekly newsletter at martfotai.com, where deeper guidance and practices arrive every Thursday. Those ready for the next level can explore the Foundation and Practice tiers, where live sessions bring these recognitions into daily application.

Thank you for walking this part of the path with me. Thank you for meeting this work with sincerity and presence. Your effort supports the field. Your recognition supports the collective integration and unity of all who practise this path.

I am Gary Eggleton. This is Martfotai.

You are everything. Live with that awareness.