Right Now

This quick, five-minute guided meditation helps the practitioner remember just how much is right here, right now. Use this recording as a way to prompt your longer sitting practice, or just on its own for a quick reminder of the moment.

Transcript

This recording is a guided meditation to support you in recognizing what is here and now.

We are not efforting or working towards a specific experience,

Rather simply noticing and acknowledging what is present.

Any position of the body will suffice as long as you are comfortable and relatively still.

Let's begin.

Right now,

You are listening to this recording.

You are standing or sitting or laying down.

Under you is either a cushion,

A seat,

A bed,

A floor.

Under that is the ground,

The dirt of earth,

With critters and crawlers,

Worms,

Roots,

And rocks.

This earth is twirling and rolling through space,

Everything within it,

Including you.

Right now,

You are listening to this recording.

Meanwhile many other things are happening.

The sun is shining in some places,

And rain is falling in others.

Someone just smiled on the other side of the earth.

Someone was just born.

Someone has just died.

Someone who you don't know yet is going about their day.

A day within a life as full and complicated and as meaningful as yours.

All of these people and all of these animals too.

The four-legged,

Creepy-crawlies,

Swimmers,

And fliers.

All of these beings are sharing this earth with you.

Right now,

You are listening to this recording.

You are exactly here and now,

A specific being among all the other beings in this diverse and mysterious and wonderful world.

All of these beings are sharing this earth with you.

Deals in your rest.