
PAUSE BEFORE FLYING
Here, you will find the steps to meditation
that we have started during the last three weeks of this blog.
For the sake of clarity,
I will present these as 3 steps:
CLEARING A SPACE
ATTENTION TO BREATH
FOCUSING OUR THOUGHTS
CLEARING A SPACE
Your meditation space should have all the qualities that you associate with peacefulness
- Small is beautiful
- Small and uncluttered is best
- The objects before your eyes ought to have personal significance.
- The light that falls on your body should be soft.
- If you cannot have silence in this space, then learn to adjust to external noise
- Trust that you will learn to do this.
ATTENTION TO BREATH
- Settle your body so that it does not hinder your attention
- Keep your spine as straight as possible
- Relax your neck and feel that your head is gently supported
- Rest your hands on your knees, palms upwards or downwards as you choose
- Feel a sense of thankfulness for your body
- Have compassion for its failings
- Celebrate its strength
- As you inhale, imagine that you are drawing in the strength of the universe
- As you hold your breath, imagine yourself floating
- Then, as you exhale, return to the world all the goodness that it has given you since birth
- As you pause before the next inhalation, trust in the fact that your breath will come as the waves of the sea return to the shore
- Now, let your breathing become the background to your meditation
FOCUSING OUR THOUGHTS
- You are in a safe space
- You are connected to all living things by the inhalation and exhalation of your breath
- One by one, thoughts will come to you
- Like moths, they will dart before the eyes of your imagination
- Some will disturb you with the flapping of its wings
- Some thoughts will seduce you and you will start to follow them
- Let them go
- Distance yourself somewhat from the moths of your imagination
- Moths, like thoughts, have ephemeral lives
- Count on that
- Let them go gently and return to your breathing
- Inhaling
- Holding
- Exhaling
- Pausing
- Remain
- Remain
- Remain