The simplest meditation: Here-Now

In all my years of teaching meditation, the most common question I get asked is, what is the most basic, simplest way for me to meditate? I was thinking about that this morning. It occurs to me that about the most direct way to meditate is simply this. On the inhalation, imagine the word here, and on the exhalation, imagine the word now. And

without actually saying those words in your head, just here, now.

And then...

Any thought that occurs to you that is not consistent with either of those notions of here and now, just let it drift away.

What'll happen is all of those control strategies to try to deal with your fears about tomorrow just vanish. Just focus on here and now. Everything else is irrelevant. Try it.

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