Last weekend I was alone with my youngest son. We rode our bikes through Oakhurst village near our house and to a local park. We watched squirrels gather nuts, we climbed the bars together, we drank water out of a very cold water bottle, we played together. Those moments where you can be one with your child. To focus only on your child and to become part of their play. To totally be in their world. To me it is meditation.
If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with his smile, if you are not truly there-thinking about the future or the past, or preoccupied with other problems-then the child is not truly there for you. The technique of being alive is to go back to yourself in order for the child to appear like a marvelous reality. Then you can see him smile and you can embrace him in your arms. -Thich Nhat Hanh, One of the best known and most respected Zen masters in the world today, poet, and peace and human rights activist
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