Meditation reflections March 8 & 9 2014

These were shorter outside meditations which weren't guided. I find great peace in allowing the sounds of the world fill me and push out my internal monologues or dialogues. For a half an hour each day I sat by the Hudson and heard the water lapping, the birds calling, people passing and traffic rushing by behind me, none of them drawing my attention as a distraction or drawing a focus one greater than the other, but being the meditation objects themselves. I am not always successful in this, the sounds that pull my attention are people talking loudly or music being played - those I don't tune out so easily. Otherwise I find this to be a very enjoyable way of 'meditating'.