YOU DO NOT HAVE TIME TO MEDITATE
It's true. You don't. I don't, either. I'm sorry to be the one to tell you, but it's absolutely hopeless. Things are never going to be different. Extra time is not going to appear. There are already way too many things to do, and if you add another thing, there is something on your current list that will not get done. This is just fundamentally true, and there is no changing it.
I mean, you need a specially-equipped, quiet place to meditate uninterrupted for a certain period of time. To get that, you will have to both go somewhere else, or ask everyone else to go somewhere else, and also leave something off your current list. Yes.
That's just reality. Unless, there is someone you could ask to cover you for that time and do the things that would otherwise get left off the list. If you don't have that, or a special, quiet place totally insulated from your life, you don't have time to meditate. No.
I wish it weren't so, but you really do not have time to attend to the present moment. The present moment can only be observed in a special, quiet place, with other special people, people more special than you, right? Special, calm, quiet people. The people usually around you are not calm, that's for sure. They laugh or yell or cry at the drop of a hat, and you do, too. The floor is dirty. The boss is yelling. Everyone just wants take-out again.
The kicker is that it can only be done if you have a lot of present moments all in a row together. Like, at least 30 of them. Time to really breathe, you know? Slowly in, slowly out, in a long, unbroken wave. This breathing that you usually do, where it's affected by the things happening to you, and it's too fast, or too shallow, or it's like you haven't even noticed it in days, that's the only thing you usually have time for. Total dealbreaker.
Also, you need the right clothes. And the right cushion. Bonus points for a little lotus printed on the label.
If only there were some kind of loophole, where you could count a regular moment -- just precisely the way it already is -- as a present moment, and you could just observe it a little. If all these moments that you have loads of, where you are wearing what you already wear, standing around or racing off or sprawled on a lumpy couch, and there is all kinds of chaos inside and out -- if those were real moments, without any kind of alteration needed, instead of just all these pretend moments that you have to endure until you can find the time to engineer a real, perfect, present moment...wow.
That would be a dream.
I mean, you need a specially-equipped, quiet place to meditate uninterrupted for a certain period of time. To get that, you will have to both go somewhere else, or ask everyone else to go somewhere else, and also leave something off your current list. Yes.
That's just reality. Unless, there is someone you could ask to cover you for that time and do the things that would otherwise get left off the list. If you don't have that, or a special, quiet place totally insulated from your life, you don't have time to meditate. No.
I wish it weren't so, but you really do not have time to attend to the present moment. The present moment can only be observed in a special, quiet place, with other special people, people more special than you, right? Special, calm, quiet people. The people usually around you are not calm, that's for sure. They laugh or yell or cry at the drop of a hat, and you do, too. The floor is dirty. The boss is yelling. Everyone just wants take-out again.
The kicker is that it can only be done if you have a lot of present moments all in a row together. Like, at least 30 of them. Time to really breathe, you know? Slowly in, slowly out, in a long, unbroken wave. This breathing that you usually do, where it's affected by the things happening to you, and it's too fast, or too shallow, or it's like you haven't even noticed it in days, that's the only thing you usually have time for. Total dealbreaker.
Also, you need the right clothes. And the right cushion. Bonus points for a little lotus printed on the label.
If only there were some kind of loophole, where you could count a regular moment -- just precisely the way it already is -- as a present moment, and you could just observe it a little. If all these moments that you have loads of, where you are wearing what you already wear, standing around or racing off or sprawled on a lumpy couch, and there is all kinds of chaos inside and out -- if those were real moments, without any kind of alteration needed, instead of just all these pretend moments that you have to endure until you can find the time to engineer a real, perfect, present moment...wow.
That would be a dream.
Sublime.
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