A Meditation From Letting The Raft Disintegrate

Finding a comfortable posture,

Something that will support your practice for the next 10 minutes,

Upright but also relaxed,

Dignified,

Kind,

Curious,

Finding the breath in the body or the sound in your environment and bringing the attention to the breath or to the sound as a kind of home base,

As a kind of refuge,

Seeing if you can be generous with yourself when the mind wanders and there's a restlessness in the body,

But not grasping a fold of generosity as a construct or a part of identity or anything more than a moment by moment experience.

Same with love,

Frustration,

Patience,

Staying in a state of inquiry and noticing that that is also coming and going just like the breath,

Just like the sound.

Emma's teacher,

Shogyam Trungpa,

We're all just falling through the air,

Nothing to hold on to,

Noticing when generosity is present,

When love is present,

When restlessness,

Frustration,

And agitation are present.

Each experience or each phenomenon just arising and passing away and then taking a few deeper breaths,

Wiggling the fingers and toes,

Fluttering the eyes open.