when the mind wanders, stringing moments of
mindfulness together, breath by breath. Try it every
once in a while as you read this book.
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.
(KABIR)
Practice Practice
It helps to keep at it. As you begin befriending your
breath, you see immediately that unawareness is
everywhere. Your breath teaches you that not only
does unawareness go with the territory, it is the
territory. It does this by showing you, over and over
again, that it's not so easy to stay with the breath
even if you want to. Lots of things intrude, carry us
off, prevent us from concentrating. We see that the
mind has gotten cluttered over the years, like an attic,
with old bags and accumulated junk. Just knowing
this is a big step in the right direction.