Daily exercises for developing presence and relaxation.

People think of relaxation in a variety of ways: as a state of dreaminess as a strategy for escaping life as a means to fill in or mark our time. However, true relaxation is the state of perfect balance. When we relax, we open to new sensory fields and dimensions, expanding the sensations and feeling that integrate the body and mind. In this way we learn how to generate and accumulate energy and use it so that the body and mind work together in a flowing, open way: thoughts and sensations flow smoothly because the mind is clear and vibrant, the body is vital and energetic. During true relaxation there is no longer a self that experiences—we become the experience, totally at one with our bodies, minds and senses.

Day 5 – Appreciate Each Moment

The point is to appreciate each moment as fully as possible—whatever comes. This does not mean that we forget the future, but it does mean that the goal, the fruit, is already here. We could spend our whole lives slowly starving to death, selling the present for the future and getting nothing nourishing in return.

But we can also do it differently.

Through a refined searching and inquiry, through watching our own minds, we can learn great lessons.

The silent space between thoughts is always available.

The unborn is always there, and ‘there’ is not a place. 

Contemplate with attention for 15 minutes or longer