Meditation Instruction

AA wrote: Ich liebe Pema Chödrön. Sie ist so menschlich. 

Meditation Instruction

Be fully present.
Feel your heart.
And engage in the next moment without an agenda.                                                

Pema Chödrön: Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change

Perhaps I have recommended her books before, but it deserves to be repeated: if you are interested in (Buddhist) meditation, Pema Chödrön is your woman. Her writing style is very down to earth and she explains meditation in a way that everybody can access.

Look at the example above: could the instruction be simpler? Just stop, breathe and be present, then “feel your heart and engage in the next moment without an agenda”. Basically it’s a fresh start – you make a pause, relax, drop whatever was roaming around in your head, and continue with a blank mind.

I love this instruction not only because it’s so simple, but also because it implies that meditation is not just something you do sitting cross-legged on a cushion twenty minutes every morning. It’s like a general way of life: you don’t just rush about your days in an everlasting turmoil of things to do and figure out - instead you train in stopping every now and coming back to yourself. You make it a habit to centre yourself in the here and now, feel your physical being – and continue afresh.