What I would like to invite you to do is to sit as straight as you can.
And we're going to meditate for about 10 minutes.
For some of you that'll be a new experience.
And for some of you even the term meditation is an alien term.
It's part of the balancing we're trying to do between getting out in the marketplace and cultivating the inner quiet space.
So first just get here.
Just breathe gently and sit with what you're experiencing at this moment.
If you're experiencing tiredness let yourself be tired.
If you're feeling hot or cold.
If you're feeling the seat under you,
Sounds outside.
Don't push anything away.
Just be just with what is.
But keep coming back to what you are directly experiencing in this moment.
If your mind takes you on a train of thought,
When you notice that just come back and experience the floor under your feet.
Or the air on your cheek.
Or the presence of the person next to you.
Letting your mind not hold on to things but just be.
Thoughts arising,
Passing away.
Noticing which sensations present themselves to you.
The horn feeling in your leg.
Maybe an agitation.
Perhaps it's a memory.
Or it's a judgment about yourself or about something else.
Just notice it and be with it.
And let it stay or go as it chooses.
Noticing if the siren comes into your consciousness.
Let it be there.
Don't resist it.
Don't grab hold of it.
It comes and it goes.
Notice that what you were noticing as much as two minutes ago is already gone.
Thoughts,
Feelings,
Sensations,
Memories,
Plans.
Crossing your awareness like clouds cross the heavens.
Clinging to nothing.
Just being at rest with what is.
If there is agitation,
Just notice agitation.
Whatever state of mind,
Whatever feeling or thought or sensation.
Neither clinging to it nor pushing it away.
Just coexist with all of it.
Just be with it just as it is.
There's nowhere to go.
There's nothing to accomplish.
There's no merit.
Just this.
Just this.
Feel the awareness as a vast ground like the sky.
And all of the thoughts and sensations and memories and plans and qualities of mind and judging as clouds that come from who knows where and go who knows where.
Identify for a moment with the vast sky.
This vast presence.
It hears everything and yet there is no effort.
It's not doing anything.
It's just being.
How little time we acknowledge that in us which is just being.
