Being In Touch With Your Being

Over the weekend, I was chatting with a friend about how we unwind from the demands of daily work.

I told him I enjoy sitting in meditation whenever I get the chance — at work, at home, anywhere.

He laughed. “I don’t know how people can sit in meditation. I’m so deep in work overload, I don’t think I can ever do it.”

So I asked him, “What’s your idea of meditation?”

“To stop thinking. To empty the mind,” he said.

I smiled. “For me, it’s simply staying in touch with my being, in the middle of any experience.”

He paused. Then a slow smile spread across his face.

“You mean… I don’t have to stop or control my thoughts?”

I nodded. I seemed to have unlocked a puzzle in his mind about meditation.