We are sitting
In a place of quietness
Letting the Self become still,
Letting the breath become slow,
Letting our thoughts come to rest.
Letting the Self become still,
Energies that were moving about
Can go inward now,
Can come to rest
In the stillness
Of our quiet being.
Breathing becomes quiet now,
Not breathing
By the tempo of outer things
But by an inner tempo
Breathing at an inner pace,
The breath moving in
And out
Of itself,
Carried by its own rhythm
Adjusting itself
To itself.
Breathing at an inner pace,
Our thoughts let go
Of our breathing.
Breathing at an inner pace,
The breath is free
To come and go
In its own timing.
The breath is slow
And regular,
Moving in and out
By its inner tempo,
Carried by its own rhythm,
Adjusting itself
To itself.
Breathing at an inner pace
Thoughts become quiet,
Restless thoughts
That have been moving about,
Restless thoughts
Dissipating their energies together
Into one place
Resting
On the steady breathing.
Excess thoughts drop away.
We become still.
Thinking becomes quiet,
Thoughts fitting together
And settling into one place
By themselves
Without our thinking them.
Many mixed thoughts
Become one whole thought
Contained within itself,
One whole thought
In the mind at rest.
Letting the Self become still,
Letting our thoughts come to rest,
Letting our breath become slow.
Breathing becomes quiet,
Breathing becomes slow,
And slower;
Breathing becomes regular,
Regular.
The unevenness
Of nonessential thoughts
Drops out of the breathing.
It becomes
The breathing of the Self.
Breathing at an inner pace,
The breath moves
At the center of my Self,
At the center of my Self
In regular rhythms.
My body is quiet,
Holding its place.
The breath is moving evenly,
Inward,
Outward,
Evenly
In its own rhythm.
The breath moves evenly
At the center of my body,
At the center of my Self.
The breath is moving
At the center of my Self
In a regular rhythm.
The breath moves at the center.
The breath moves at the center
Breathing at an inner pace.
As the breath moves at the center,
Quietly,
Evenly,
The Self becomes still
Like quiet water.
The Self becomes still
Like quiet water.
In the stillness of the Self,
In the quiet of the water
My inward ear hears,
My inward eye sees
Signs and words and visions
Reflected in the quiet waters
In the stillness of the Self,
In the Silence... In the Silence.