Meditation Is Like Farming... The Right Soil

When Your Alarm Goes Off And You Jump Out Of Bed, What Is The Nature Of The Mind In That Moment? Are You Already Like, "oh My God," Your Calendar Pops Into Your Mind And You're Driven Already, Or Can You Take A Moment And Just Lie In Bed And Just Feel Your Body Breathing. And Remember, "oh Yeah, Brand New Day And I'm Still Alive." So, I Get Out Of Bed With Awareness, Brush My Teeth With Awareness. When You're In The Shower Next Time Check And See If You're In The Shower.

It Is Remarkable How Liberating It Feels To Be Able To See That Your Thoughts Are Just Thoughts And That They Are Not 'you' Or 'reality.' For Instance, If You Have The Thought That You Have To Get A Certain Number Of Things Done Today And You Don't Recognize It As A Thought But Act As If It's The 'the Truth,' Then You Have Created A Reality In That Moment In Which You Really Believe That Those Things Must All Be Done Today.

To Let Go Means To Give Up Coercing, Resisting, Or Struggling, In Exchange For Something More Powerful And Wholesome Which Comes Out Of Allowing Things To Be As They Are Without Getting Caught Up In Your Attraction To Or Rejection Of Them, In The Intrinsic Stickiness Of Wanting, Of Liking And Disliking.

We Call The Effort To Cultivate Our Ability To Be In The Present Moment ‘practice’ Or ‘meditation Practice.’

If You Look At People Out On The Street, If You Look At People At Restaurants, Nobody's Having Conversations Anymore. They're Sitting At Dinner Looking At Their Phone, Because Their Brain Is So Addicted To It.