One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a tree stump in a clearing in the forest. Feel your belly rise or expand gently on the inbreath, and fall or recede on the outbreath.

My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.

He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.

In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.

There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.