Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch with a great deal in life, including our bodies.

Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

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