Notice that you're not just awake in this moment, but you're alive. Just feel this aliveness. We don't know what it is, where it comes from, this life. We have words to explain it, ideas and different stories, but at the end of the day, this gift of life — this vitality — is a mystery.
Why Meditate in Community?
Ancient Buddhists recognized the power of community early on. They even named the sangha — which is a Sanskrit word for “community” — as one of what they call the three gems of Buddhism. They valued the sangha so highly because they recognized that we all sometimes get stuck in the mud so to speak in our individual practice.
Still Point Meditation: The Practice of Practices
As we’ve explored on this blog and on Mindfulness+, there are many ways to practice mindfulness. But there’s one practice in particular that I might call the practice of practices. And that’s the still point practice. When we're in the still point — when we're resting in a quality of open spaciousness, pure potential — our lives become intuitive. We can be receptive to exactly what the moment calls for.
See, Feel, Hear Meditation: How to Escape the Matrix
What’s so potent about a mindfulness practice is that when we bring our awareness to seeing, hearing, and feeling we start to realize that these things constitute the building blocks of our human experience. And when we're fully aware of that experience, we can enjoy a degree of freedom from the Matrix.
Guided Healing Meditation With Script: How Mindfulness Turns Problems Into Solutions
Whenever I teach mindfulness, I see a recurring scenario with a lot of students. They're busy people, and it's difficult to free up a few minutes a day to meditate. They'll do it, but it's difficult and feels like a sacrifice.
That’s completely understandable. We already do so much in life, and now we have to figure out how to cram one more thing — a mindfulness practice — into our day?