Now Is All There Is

There is an expression in Zen, "no gaining idea," and where we can experience this is in our breathing. When we meditate, we allow our breath to just run as it will. We are not “doing” any sort of controlled breathing but just watching your breath breathe the way it wants to breathe.

If you’re trained in a particular technique of breathing or you say to yourself at some point during the day, “Just breathe,” breathing is something that you are doing voluntarily, just in the same way as you might be walking or talking. And when you are not thinking about breathing, your breathing goes on just the same.

So the breath can be looked at as a voluntary and an involuntary action. You can feel like, on the one hand, “I am doing it,” and on the other hand, “It’s happening to me.” Both are happening...now.

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