A Meditation Of Going Back To The Basics Of Mindfulness

Finding a comfortable posture that supports you in your practice,

Whatever that posture is for you,

Whatever that practice is for you this morning.

And if you,

If you'd like,

And you want to come to the breath,

The attention on the breath and try the,

The counting practice,

It's really just counting each breath and then when you notice that the mind has wandered,

Just start back again at one and,

And you might not even get further than one and that's okay.

And just whatever you're noticing,

Whether paying attention to the breath or the body or sound or whether the moment you heard my sound of my voice and you recollected,

Oh,

I'm meditating and you'd been off in story,

Whatever is happening right now,

Just being with that,

With a lot of understanding and benevolence and love,

The mind is wandering or,

Or paying attention and there's something difficult and you attend to whatever is here with loving kindness,

With love,

Just what is,

Just what is,

Just what is.

And maybe if you want to taking this last minute of our sit together to directly show some appreciation to yourself,

Some metta,

Some gratitude,

You know,

To,

For being here,

For getting here,

Even though the note was late and coming and sitting with our little community,

You know,

Maybe putting the hand on the heart.

I love what Annie Lamott says about,

About prayer and I think of this,

Just in terms of faith and,

And practice,

She says,

There's three types,

There's please,

There's thank you and there's whatever,

So whatever is present for you today.