Be with what's here

 

Koson Ohara

 

Tara Brach, in "Opening Our Hearts to Life As It Is" (on Insight Timer app). 

These phases:

• Be with what's here
• We're here... with these sounds, sensations
• Tender and clear presence.
• The immediacy and vividness of presence...not trance of thinking
• If there's something challenging, open to what's here with interest and care... 
• when it's not there, continue to collect and settle with your known bases (breathing, listening, sensations of your hands from the inside)