Balanced Existence

Our real financial crisis is that we buy now and pay later. We spend now and save later. We enjoy right now, and leave knuckling down for later. The problem with all those “laters” is that they seem to all come together at once and at the worst possible time. Instead we can choose to do them now and enjoy the benefits of doing so.

My meditation practice is simple. I sit and be the sky. This begins with slowing down. Achieved by centering the mind on one physical sensory input. In this case the feeling of the breath at the rim of the nostrils. Breath and mind gradually merge. The calmer one becomes the more refined the breath. The more refined the breath the more one must focus single-pointedly on the ever slighter sensation.