I prefer the early morning for meditation practice. Winter indeed is a most difficult time to begin setting up a daily practice and it is not proceeding forward without its share of missed early morning sessions. I may have indicated or perhaps you may have guessed that I previously had a regular meditation practice for several years. When your daily routine is established it is easier to sit through obstacles as they arise because that which arises will also pass. Arising in the early morning for practice is a beautiful thing. You notice the changes as you prepare to sit. The alignment of the stars with the horizon. The changes in the trees. The coming and going of birds. The changes from Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter.....This is our life after all. You become aware of the beauty of change. And you feel blessed.
Beware routines.
ReplyDeleteNot that they are necessarily bad,
but they have that potential.
Early mornings are a particularly fine time.