Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation for everyday life

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

TRY: Recognizing the bloom of the present moment in your daily meditation practice if you have one. If you are up early in the morning, try going outside and looking (a sustained, mindful, attentive looking) at the stars, at the moon, at the dawning light when it comes. Feel the air, the cold, the warmth (a sustained, mindful, attentive feeling). Realize that the world around you is sleeping. Remember when you see the stars that you are looking back in time millions of years. The past is present now and here. Then go and sit or meditate lying down. Let this or any time you practice be your time for letting go of all doing, for getting into the being mode, in which you simply dwell in stillness and mindfulness attending to the moment-to-moment unfolding of the present, adding nothing, subtracting nothing, affirming that “This is it.”