This is a five minute do nothing meditation.
This is Alan Watts.
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
And therefore,
If you meditate for a ulterior motive,
That is to say,
To improve your mind,
To improve your character,
To be more efficient in life,
You've got your eye on the future and you're not meditating.
It's funny then,
Isn't it,
That one meditates for no reason at all,
Except we could say,
For the enjoyment of it.
And here I would interpose the essential principle that meditation is supposed to be fun.
Meditation,
When correctly done,
Is a kind of digging in the present.
It's a kind of grooving with the eternal now.
And it brings us into a state of peace where we can understand that the point of life,
The place where it's at,
Is simply here and now.
As we begin this meditation,
Let us allow our minds to do whatever they want to do.
If the mind wants to think,
Let it think.
If the mind wants to wander,
Let it wander.
If you find that there is agitation,
Distraction,
Or resistance to what is here,
See if you can make some space for all of this to happen.
Including everything,
Excluding nothing.
For at the end of the day,
There is no right or wrong way of doing this meditation practice.
For there is no right or wrong way of just sitting with whatever arises.
So let us practice like this for a few moments in silence.
Thank you.
The Sufi poet Rumi wrote,
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival,
A joy,
A depression,
A meanness.
Some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all,
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture.
Still,
Treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought,
The shame,
The malice.
Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
Because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
The Sufi poet Rumi wrote,
The Sufi poet Rumi wrote,
In a few moments the bell will ring,
Signaling the end of this five minute meditation.
And as we transition from more formal meditation practice to more playful daily life,
Perhaps we can find some inspiration in the words of Martha Pozzlewhite who writes,
Instead,
Create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know how to give yourself to this world so worthy of rescue.
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