The Simple Pleasures Meditation

If you look back over your day can you become aware of what might have been missed? Of what you didn’t hear? Of lost opportunities for connection. Of chances to sit quietly for just a moment and take a deep breath. What simple things that might have helped you were you not aware of? Did someone offer help to you that you didn’t even recognize as an offer?

It’s okay. Our awareness sometimes fails. We do what we need to do to get through the day. Becoming aware of what we don’t usually see, becoming aware of simple things we might take pleasure in, is a skill. Awareness is the practice we seek.

This is a meditation on simplicity, on seeing and taking advantage of simple pleasures.

Included are readings from Simply Living, a poem by Catherine Pulsifer, and from The Radiance Sutras translated by my teacher Lorin Roche. The music is by Chris Collins.