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How getting real can liberate us to what is.
“Today I Got Nothing.”
Today I got nothing. Can we just go with that?
Sometimes, the best policy is to tell it like it is.
Like when we’re sick. Or when we’re down and nothing works and nothing we’ve tried turned out right. Sometimes the best idea is to sit back and say, “Wow. This is not working. At all.”
Maybe we even back up a little so we can get a clearer view.
That’s all meditation is — that backing up for a better view.
It’s sitting with a situation, putting a tiny bit of distance between us and it, and then just watching it. This can be really hard, but boiled down to its essence that’s what meditation is.
It’s hard because we have to give up our cherished illusions.
In order to see clearly, we have to give up what we want to see.
Case in point: I want to see myself as a prolific writer with something relevant to say and an effective way to say it. But then there are days like this when I’m sick, and I’m tired, and my head is a marriage of fuzz and fog, and I don’t care, and I don’t wanna. Meditation is sitting…
