For most of us, finding or taking spare moments can be near-impossible, but it can make a great difference. Just a few minutes morning and night will indeed return its benefits.
I remember taking a single time-out during a non-stop ten-and-a-half-week computer architecture class. Stopping to silence the static of insanity over morning coffee. It was but an instant within that moment's pause... but what bliss! ...what simple, simple joy.
This path unfolds--petals of the continuum:
treating Life itself as meditation,
as discipline for the warrior soul,
its sorrows and pleasures inward writ.
Meditation whispers to our core;
its inner illumination relinquishes
struggles to our spirit's strength.
It eases bonds of circumstance.
Whoever would still the draining rust of anxieties
walks with the wisdom of simplicity.
At dawn, at dusk, to silence the static,
we retire within, following the sacred breath.
We thus return to our still, calm center.
Sparing moments to savor dawn's golden flame,
dusk's royal transition to nightfall,
the hallowed midnight, conscious of
eternal constellations, we track the transcendent.
Wrapped in the warmth of meditation,
insights yield a healing peace. The deeper our search
the more profound the rewards. Without an inward belief
life becomes a whirlwind, mindlessly spinning.
