The wise do not waste time on meditation

Do not think that because you take an hour a day to sit and meditate that you have arrived.

You have not arrived.

Because when you get up off your mat

All full of pride

That you can stop your thoughts and focus your attention for an hour

YOU

Have not arrived

The wise man does not meditate

The wise man does not need to

The wise man knows that meditation is merely the quality of awareness one brings to ALL of one’s life

He meditates when he awakens, taking a moment to adjust his ears and his eyes and his body to the instant influx of sensory data

He meditates when he gets out of bed, feeling the cold floor underneath all four sides of his feet as he stretches his toes up and out.

He meditates when he puts the jug on, hearing the sounds of the birds outside, the rumble of the early morning garbage truck and the soft whisper of his breath

No, the wise man does not need to sit on a mat and meditate because he meditates 24 hours a day.

This is what it means to be alive.

YOU are present in every moment.

You still have thoughts, but you observe your thoughts, and there is a gap between the thinking and the acting when YOU have a choice

You can obey your thoughts

Or not

That gap

That choice

That is the stillness of Self

That is Consciousness

That is what all the meditation and chanting and yoga and rituals and dedication is all about.

Finding that gap between thought and action and making it not just a pause between cause and effect

But a choice that determines WHAT the effect is going to be

Allowing the gap to exist allows true wisdom to guide you

Because it is in the gap between thought and action that the path becomes clear

In the gap, YOU know what to do

This gap is all meditation seeks to arrive at

So find the gap, and you have arrived

You are home

Calm, centred, loving, watchful, just BEING

In the gap

aaahhh…

Feel that?

Now who wouldn’t want to feel that 24 hours a day?

Forget meditating

BE meditation

Then YOU will arrive

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