Beware! If you are thinking about taking up meditation be advised: There will be rewards. I experienced a tiny taste of them today. Upon finishing my short sit in the backyard, I found all my grand ideas and somewhat desperate desires to leave the house and seek out productivity and Vermont-type activities were gone! I opened my eyes after breathing in and drifting away, and breathing out and in again, and was so captivated by my backyard, I thought: 'why would i want to go anywhere?' So I didn't.
Instead i stayed right there a little longer, then happily made a list, organised the medicine cabinet, stored grains away into glass jars, made the bed and, no less happily or more happily than the others, I sat on my little back porch (cement slab) and did my homework. So much productivity without even leaving home and so much contentment in such mundane tasks. What gives? I'm telling you fellow meditators, watch out, you might just find glimpses of contentment in your every day life, just as it is.
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