The TAO Of Daniel: MEDITATION

Nothing makes the Tao laugh like talking to her about meditation. It is that ‘thing’ which everyone claims to be doing but few people actually DO.

And so what does it actually mean, to ‘meditate’?

That’s a question that has no easy or truthful answer. One working model, however, would be to say that meditation is ‘doing one simple thing with full awareness’. And so that ‘one thing’ can be ‘anything’.

Eating, drinking, shopping, working, making love, cooking, sleeping, running, talking.

The Tao, in this way, does not distinguish something from all other things; and all things become merged into the ‘river’ of being that is constant awareness and infinite meditation.

It could even be that the least ‘meditative’ parts of one’s life hold the most value.

X marks the spot, as they say, and that resistance that comes with challenge, with difficulty and with ‘losing oneself’ therefore holds the greatest room for improvement.

Finding ‘flowers in the dirt’, or a ‘hot tub inside the pool of acid’, one might say.

It’s a rocky ride, the path of true meditation, and yet it is one alive with surprises, riddled with new juicy questions and gleefully in love with reinventing its own practice, time and time again.

And the Tao is just begging to take you there, every moment of every day…

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