A Daily Meditation

I've been laid up in bed since Sunday with a bout of sinusitis which has given me a head like a sore bear and a tolerance level to match. I had to wait a couple of days for my antibiotics to be delivered and I'm hoping by tomorrow I will start to feel almost human again.

In the time I've been laid up, I've had to slow down and rest - it's funny how your body malfunctions forcing you to stop when you don't stop to listen to it voluntarily. This has allowed me to think (bad move) but also to be in 'the moment' - something I think we are all pretty bad at doing in our busy busy lives.


Daily meditation in whatever form, need only take 5 minutes or so - long enough to ground yourself, long enough to stop the chattering monkeys, long enough to regroup your thoughts, long enough to take in a deep breath and let it our again slowly, long enough to know who you are and where you are going.


On my bedroom wall (directly in my line of vision) is a Buddhist meditation which reads like this:



Let us be still for a few moments
Without moving even our little finger
So that a hush descends upon us.
There would be no place to go,
Nor to come from,
For we would have arrived in this
extraordinary moment,
There would be a stillness and silence,
That would fill all our senses,
Where all things would find their rest.
Everything would then be together in a
deep connection.
Putting an end to "us and them", this
against that.
We would not move in these brief
moments
For that would disturb this palpable presence;
There would be nothing to be said nor done
For life would embrace us in this wondrous meeting
And take us into its arms as a loving friend.

I thought I would share it with you today and wish you all a quiet five minutes to just check in with yourselves.