Is Meditation That Simple?

[rickhur]

Meditation is simply a means of becoming aware of the Present Moment.
And once you have found out what your own Now Presence feels like
through practice, you can go there in any instant. In fact, the more
you go there the more it becomes your natural state so that you are
less and less caught up in the head, and more in more intensely aware
of the Present. It can be accessed anywhere, anytime; walking,
talking, working, singing, driving, painting, sitting, watching a
movie...any doing. Just become aware of yourself in any situation and
you are there, present. Are you driving? Then become intensely aware
that you are driving, notice your hands on the wheel, feel the sun on
your hands, the sounds of traffic and wind, the road ahead, of whats
on the horizon. Are you cooking? Then become aware of every movement
and action you are taking. Feel your feet on the floor, the bowl in
your arm and the wooden spoon in your hand. Are you rinsing a dish?
Then feel the hard porcelain in your hand, feel the water running over
your skin. Notice if it is hot or cold? What are the sounds in the
kitchen? What are the smells? Be there for each movement. Witness each
act, for example, like drying off the dish and putting it away. Know
every single action you take. The more mindfully you do anything, the
better the end result because mindfully means that you are there
completely when you are doing it. It means you are connected, are one
with True Creativity accessed through the Present, and your doing will
have the highest quality to it. There is no division. When your
attention is somewhere in past or future thinking, you are not here,
now. You are somewhere else while the doing is happening. Your doing
is incomplete because the quality of attention you could have given
the doing is missing. What could have been a true joy and expression
of Him is lost. But all is not lost. The moment you remember yourself
doing whatever it is you are doing in the Now Present Moment, you have
been found again. Simply remembering, simply being a witness to all
your doing turns all things into a meditation...a doorway to the Now.

[thoughtless-freedom]

Friend,
What you are describing is sensitivity, the attention of our senses
awareness. When one is fully aware, he/she is one with the water, the
water flows as one entity. When we breath, we are the air, we are the
ground that we sit on, we see subtle lights unseen to normal eyes, we
feel subtle energy emanating from nature, the energetic rays of the
sus is absorbed by our skin, the energy stream of trees can be tapped
by our body, we learn to live on prana alone, the end of physical
suffering etc.

Meditation for me is the perception of the Living Reality, a very
different revelation that words can not describe.