To meditate is simply to sit, and stay.
Doesn’t the act of meditation sound so complicated? We are told we need to “do something specific with the breath, sit in this way, but not that way; focus here, no, focus there.”
It is ripe territory for the mind to take us over and turn the event into an act of forcing and/or aggression, which is not the idea. Beneath all the doing, is just resting. But does it feel comfortable? Often not. Though sometimes it is peaceful and calm. Most of the time, we become aware of how busy our minds are.
As long as we accept the activity of the mind, and not attach to it and obsess on it, then the body leans more toward stillness. As long as you are aware that you are not doing the stillness, the stillness simply occurs. The act of being gentle and staying is the practice. It IS the practice. That is all. May we begin again, and come back again and again to the simplicity of this practice.
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