instead. What does it tell you? What is it telling you to
do? If nothing, then just breathe, let things be as they
are, let go into patience, continue listening. If the river
tells you something, then do it, but do it mindfully.
Then pause, wait patiently, listen again.
As you attend the gentle flow of your own breathing
during times of formal meditation practice, notice the
occasional pull of the mind to get on to something
else, to want to fill up your time or change what is
happening. Instead of losing yourself at these times,
try to sit patiently with the breath and with a keen
awareness of what is unfolding in each moment,
allowing it to unfold as it will, without imposing
anything on it ... just watching, just breathing ...
embodying stillness, becoming patience.
Letting Go
The phrase "letting go" has to be high in the running
for New Age cliche of the century. It is overused,
abused daily. Yet it is such a powerful inward
maneuver that it merits looking into, cliche or no.
There is something vitally important to be learned
from the practice of letting go.