A Mediation From Moving Forward By Sitting Still

Often these days there's at least one moment if not a thousand moments during my morning sit when I want to scratch my nose, shake the thoughts out of my head, or abandon meditation entirely. It just feels like there's so much to attend to, to be concerned about, to repair. Restlessness and worry are such faithful companions.

When I do sit still, so much sweetness arises. And then, whatever wisdom I have, whatever compassion resides in this heart of mine, has a chance to emerge. And to move me forward into my day in a more loving way.

Transcript

So finding a comfortable posture, Posture that supports you right now in the practice of stillness, Right? So how can you organize your body, Settle into wherever you're sitting or standing or walking or lying down or if you're in your car and how can you organize your body around being able to be still for the next oh I don't know eight or nine minutes and then however however you do that come to stillness or invite yourself to come to stillness right and bringing in that gentleness so not as an order but as an invitation and maybe the first thing you notice is that the breath is not still so if you're bringing the attention to the breath you'll notice that it's moving it's flowing in flowing out or attention to the body you'll notice that the heart is beating so no matter how much stillness there is there is there is still movement and can we invite a kind of container of stillness and still there may not be stillness the body may be restless mind may be agitated and so the invitation might be to turn towards the restlessness or the agitation and just see oh restlessness feels like this agitation feels like this and then if you haven't already if it's not already your practice which maybe it is or I hope it is bringing in that love that compassion that this is just this is just how the mind is this is just how the body is and being really well tolerant as a baseline but loving loving towards towards yourself and towards whatever your experience is and if the mind has wandered coming back to the practice of just being present sitting still or standing still lying still and then maybe for the last minute of our sit together and opening up to the possibility of bringing stillness with you into your day into the weekend and any family gatherings friends gatherings celebrations that you may be heading towards you know how can stillness support you and support the people that you love