A Short Meditation On The Sacred Spaces In Law

What if we imagine the law as sacred? What if we recollect, maybe not in our memory but in our bones, how many generations – how many millennia – humans have been puzzling out how to govern as a sacred obligation, asking: what is just, what is fair, what is right?

Join me in this short 10 minute meditation on the sacred spaces in law.

Transcript

So finding a comfortable posture that's upright,

Let's be upright today,

But also relaxed,

And also inviting love into this moment,

And just attending to the breath and the present moment for now,

Whatever is here.

I guess I should say,

If there's love,

Attend to that.

Maybe there's not.

And then if there's not love already here,

Calling that in by just calling to mind someone,

Some being with whom you have a loving and uncomplicated relationship,

And just sensing into that sense of love and caring,

Maybe even noticing that just by doing this,

You can create a sacred moment for yourself,

Sacred space,

Or that this space we're sharing as we're sitting together is sacred,

And then maybe tapping into whatever sense you have of yourself in connection with the law.

Maybe you're in your office right now,

Or in a workspace in your home that's become your office.

Maybe you've been in a courtroom lately,

Or in negotiation in person,

Or virtually,

And just turn towards that and see if there is sacredness in that for you,

Just as an inquiry.

And then maybe letting that go,

Unless it feels resonant to stay with it,

You can just let it go and just come back to this present moment,

And the breath,

The body,

Maybe sensing into the sacredness of this space that we're sharing together,

If it feels that way to you,

And just inviting you to take any sacredness that you feel,

Take it with you today.