A Meditation On The Joy Of Being The Change

Happy 400th Wake Up Call! Thank you so much for being here, and for your support.

There’s definitely a suggested path in mindfulness practice. And, sometimes it’s good to take a step back and see that we’re really just doing three things, or three baskets of things: calming, settling, and focusing our minds; developing a solid, ethical foundation; and witnessing our own wisdom emerge.

Three things, but no small thing: it's impossible to measure the power of 400 or even four weeks of practice - of training, of ethics, of wisdom. To quote a graduate of our very first Mindfulness in Law Teacher Training, back in 2016, even one person in the courtroom or conference room, practicing mindfulness, can change everything.

It feels to me like we’re seeing that change, and being that change. Thank you for being part of this remarkable project. Join me in a short meditation on A Meditation on The Joy of Being the Change: Three Baskets of Mindfulness in the Law.

Transcript

Okay, So let's sit. Finding your posture, Your spot in the world, On the earth, Right in this moment where you feel most comfortable, Most settled, Most alive. Taking a few intentional breaths, Closing the eyes or lowering them. I learned this last weekend from my dear friend Maria Breese. Lowering the gaze to the heart. Isn't that beautiful? Closing the eyes or lowering the gaze to the heart. And feeling your connection to the earth. Whether you're fortunate enough to be standing or sitting right on the earth, Lying down on the earth right now, Or whether it's many stories down. Connecting to the earth. Connecting to yourself, Sensing into your own body. The weightedness of the body, Settledness of the body, The posture that you're in, Your state of mind, State of heart. Then connecting with one another. Just that sense of being together here on the wake-up call, But also being together in the mindfulness and law community. The language we share, The understandings we share, The commitment we share. Then bringing the attention to the goodness of those three connections, Our connections to the earth and to ourselves and to one another, And the goodness of our practice. How this is not a small thing. How this is a very good thing that we practice, That we bring our wisdom and our compassion out into the world. A world that really needs, A world that really needs our wisdom, Our compassion, Our good hearts, Our good work. Resting for the next few minutes and just knowing that we're doing a good job. We're doing that work. Each of us, Each one of you, All of us, And that this is no small thing.