I’ve meditated since about 2007.  It’s been a journey of quiet and chatter … the human mind at work.

During the last few years, during some meditation sessions, I’ve had the experience of quieting to stillness.  For awhile, I feel a gentle throbbing in my head.  And then, after ten or twenty minutes, the rhythm ceases.  No movement within the eyes.  A straight horizontal line.  It’s a blessing when it comes.  And sometimes it never does.

Yesterday I sat in my meditation chair.  Voilà:

I had a Zoom meeting with the Evolutionary Collective in two-and-a-half hours.  So I set the timer on my watch for two hours.  “That’s pretty long.  I’ll finish well before then.”

And I began …

Within perhaps five minutes I was gone into the stillness.  There was nothing in the breath … or the mind.  Occasionally the word “love” would enter, and my mouth would curl upwards.  And then that was gone too.

I was softly awake with my eyes closed, fully aware of any sounds that entered the room.  Time melted away.  Even now melted away.  I sat, hands loose in the lap.

Then my watch started vibrating.

Never before a meditation session like this … the peace, the long long time.

As I returned to the world of objects, I was thrilled.  In wonder. 

And here’s what’s so: I may experience this again today.  I may never experience this again.  And everything in between.

I smile at all the possibilities