meditating

When I say that I meditate the usual response is, “ I tried that and it doesn’t work for me.  My mind is just too active.  I can’t settle down to do it”.   Even Buddha had to sit under the tree for months before he got it, so who am I or you to get it.   

 Do you ever watch how much you fidget?  Even in our sleeping time we move and jerk and shift.   Of course the mind wanders.  It is like a hungry ghost that must be entertained or fed.   So Just sit…. 

And when it wanders.. say.. thinking thinking thinking.. and the next time you try, it goes away less.  

The real question is not that it goes… but where does it go…  

It is a rare mind that wanders into the present.  My mind goes back and says why did you do that or say that… what did it get you.  I want to take it back and say it differently.   So you make it a learning and say, what can I do differently?   Now, I am trying to say, let what I am about to say to another be helpful and useful or say nothing.  I am spending more and more time alone until I can get this to be how I speak.

It is a great mind that wanders into the present.   My mind goes forward and says what should I do, how will I do it, what will come to me about things that I have created in my mind.  What a waste of time.  How many things that we worry about ever happen?   I was sure I would drown if I got into water and here I am … taking a breath and kicking forward.

The more I sit, the more I stay present and the faster I catch a thought going back and forward.

Now,  the more it is … the dog that is barking NOW, the motor that is roaring NOW, the floor that is cold NOW.

NOW is what is real… oops that NOW just passed.