How do I get to that place of simplicity?
You have the instructions,
You have a way of sitting you know how to sit,
Sit up,
Straight,
But you could lie down actually,
It doesn't really matter,
That would be alright,
Good stand,
But ok,
So the instruction is sit because it's as good as anything,
Becoming aware of just where you are and how you are,
Which is quite interesting because as you come into the present you become aware of your presence in the world and you start to notice how your body is and even that can be quite calming in itself,
Quite grounding and then noticing this exchange with the environment,
This communication of this message of the breath going in and out and that sense of opening out into this awareness and within that context,
Up come all the complications and as the complications come up to be as simple as you possibly can with whatever comes up,
Whether it's a feeling,
Whether it's a thought,
Whether it's a story,
Whether it's a voice telling you off,
Or a voice telling what a good chap you are,
Whatever it is,
You treat it exactly the same,
Like waves on the ocean and that's a huge task actually,
To catch all those things that are going on,
Chatter,
Chatter,
Chatter,
This,
That and the other,
Waves of this and that,
You know,
Oh you know,
In the course of a few hours or days you can go through whole drama stuff and just learning to regard it just as waves on the ocean,
Just to simplify the whole thing,
Not to panic,
Not to get involved in it,
But to let it be like that and it takes a long time,
It's a long journey before the richness of that starts to manifest itself,
It is a long journey,
But what's so wonderful about the journey is even a little bit of movement in the right direction,
Just a little bit of movement in the right direction feels so good,
It feels so right and it makes such a big difference,
So that's the good news,
But there's a long way to go,
There's a very long way to go and you have to be ready for that,
It's part of one's basic attitude,
This is part of the shanty,
The forbearance that you know is going to be,
It's going to be a long journey,
But also you have the good news that every step in the right direction feels so good,
Feels so good,
So much better,
Such a relief,
Even in those little tiny steps forward,
So that's,
You can live on that,
You can definitely live on that.
