I think that it is very interesting that when you are meditating that you can just get focused on your breath and that you can just see your breath rise and fall, and then rise and fall again and again. When you focus on the breath and you just get into that zone than you can just enter a state of total calm, where you are not ruminating on the past and worried about the future but you are just in the present moment. When you are in the present moment then you realise that the past doesn’t exist nor does the future but that all there is is just the present moment. So yes the moment is the moment and that is fundamental to us all.
But there is something that is peaceful about just being focused on the breath, which does have something interesting to be in the ups and the downs of things. We are just going through motions in the breath. The breath is fantastic it just rises and falls with each passing breath. When you get lost in the breath than you can just focus on the breath and feel the totality of peace that connects all of us with every living being. We can feel that connection with the breath, with that connection then there is the experience of the electricity of the moment within.
When you meditate you may have started out focusing on the breath and then you get started on some thought and after that thought has passed then you may just feel the rise and the fall of each passing breath which helps you to go to a deeper lever of peace and stillness. The breath does help to bring a sense of stillness. Is that state of stillness what we are going for? I think that stillness is just what we want, it is what we are searching for because we are not necessarily desiring it like we are desiring anything else, that stillness is the byproduct that we didn’t expect when we started a meditation practice.
Meditation is the simple, yet just because it is simple doesn’t necessarily make it easy, but we are humans, we all crave a challenge from the time to time. Have fun and like I have reminded you all expect nothing and you maybe pleasantly suprised as to what starts to transform in your life as a byproduct of a consistent meditation practice.