I simply wait

Photo: The Hudson River at sunrise Jun 3 2025, looking North from Piermont.

Morning tea is free for everyone this morning.

There is always a stillness at the heart of life, 
which I forget. 
Yet whenever I am here, 
which is a moment that lies outside of the way 
I experience time, 

whenever I am here now, 
I am invited at once to breathe 
as I always breathe
and to add to the breathing itself 
the sensation of life, 
the sensation of essential goodness 
that flows in with the air. 

I am here.

Already, when I add the air I breathe to my attention, 
together they rediscover my sensation. 
And all at once, every atom and molecule 
Every cell in the body 
is alive with the presence it has always had 
here in community. 

Alive in togetherness. 

Alive in vibration. 

So that a new and very fine unity is remembered 
throughout every particle of the body. 

The self remembers itself in communion. 

And as we are here together now, 
in this stillness that roots life in the Earth of being
so do all of us, 
every atom, 
every molecule, 
and every cell
prepare ourselves quite attentively 
to receive what may flow into being here. 

And as we prepare, an alignment takes place 
in which the magnetism 
that draws all of the energy 
and forces and life in the body together here is sensed. 

And the breathing fills the whole of this magnetic field 
with more goodness. 

And so now the magnetic force of being is more present. 
A force that is more prepared to receive life 
as it flows into being here and now. 

I breathe out with thanks for being. 

I breathe in with thanks for being. 

I remain here poised quite precisely 
balanced in every particle 
in relationship to this alignment 
inhabiting this being. 

And I see that sensation and attention have established a good relationship. 

I cannot command feeling from here. 
Nor can I demand it. 
I simply wait for its presence to arrive.