No matter how long you practice, there are times that your breath gets caught… sometimes we find ourselves gasping, sometimes holding our breath… we forget how stabilizing our breath is and how it is the “stuff” of life.
I’ve not seen another human for a while.
I’ve not seen anything green for some time.
I’m slumped over and my heart is contracted.
I’m barely breathing.
At that time, I don’t need a chime to go off. It’s too late and just the right time. It time to let my shoulders drop. Let my heart open up.
Close my eyes… walk away from the graphs and spreadsheets and do something in like child’s pose or downward facing dog to bring myself back to my center.
It’s time to pick up one of the two Dharma books on my desk and read a sentence or two and remind myself that this moment is a gift. It is the only thing that matters and I can let it pass by mindlessly or I can attend to it.
Knowing that we only have so many moments in each of our lifetimes, do we really want to let one go by without savoring it with a deep, slow breath?
And if the person before us is a buddha, how do we want to meet the Buddha? Too busy to say hello as we walk in the door? Too busy looking for the pail to empty? Or do we want to meet heart to heart, breath after breath, at the deepest level that we will allow ourselves and they will allow us to meet at?
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