Good Morning Meditation

To begin, let’s look at Jon Kabat-Zinn's (2005) work: first of all, you may wish to listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kg-Z8RIiAI where Shane Wilson reads Kabat-Zinn’s Mountain Meditation.

Jon Kabat-Zinn writes:

[Keep the] mountain image in mind as you sit in formal meditation. Explore its usefulness in deepening your capacity to dwell in stillness, to sit for longer periods of time; to sit in the face of adversity, difficulties, and storms or drabness in the mind. Ask yourself what you are learning from your experiments iwthin this practice.

Can you see some subtle transformation occurring in your attitude toward things that change in your life? Can you carry the mountain image with you in daily life? Can you see the mountain in others and allow them their own shape and form, each mountain uniquely itself?

I particularly like his last sentence “Can you see the mountain in others and allow them their own shape and form, each mountain uniquely itself”

Our life’s journey constantly shifts and changes due to our changing needs. During one of my conversations yesterday I hear this quote, attributed to Einstein:

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is tas though everything is a miracle.

Let’s look at the ordinary things we come across today as a miracle, and the extraordinary things we come across as a miracle.