Today I’m deliberately NOT going to sit. I think it will be a good idea. I will start my daily sits again tomorrow, but today I won’t. Why?
Well, since I’ve made this claim to myself, I’ve already started to ‘want’ to sit. My thoughts are intent on getting my daily sits in, but I don’t want my intention to sit to become robotic. So, by intently not sitting today, I am training my mind to be more flexible and more equanimous. I am watching my uncomfortable attitude toward missing my daily meditations.
I think this is fun. I would add helpful to that list, but that’s part of the reason why I’m not sitting. I think sitting today is going to help me. Thinking that it’s going to do anything for the ‘me’ I’m referring to, is just not true. So, by skipping my sits today, on purpose, I am playing with the idea that meditation will help me get over things in my life. I’m giving that idea no credit to being true. If I were to give in and sit, now that I’ve made this intent on not sitting, I would be meditating for the wrong reason.
This is fun. It’s playing with the practice and checking in on a moment to moment level regardless of getting the sits in. Oddly, because of this act of not sitting today, I think my sits will be new and refreshed and less robotic tomorrow. That’s back to thinking they will help me again. Perhaps they will just be as fun. I’ll see when it’s there. Without any preconceived ideas about what it will do for me, I will sit… tomorrow.
