What is your position, your orientation towards life in this moment? Is it positive, negative? Neutral? Or mixed? Is your mind active or still, or somewhere in between? Are you analytical? Judgmental? Accepting? Both? Neither?

We always have an attitude of one sort of another, a position with respect to our experience. In his book, The Path of Aliveness, Zenki Christian Dillo Roshi encourages us to practice with a mental posture of stillness even in the midst of activity. To not react or engage or interfere with our experience unconsciously.

This is the essence of our practice. We can, with intention, turn our attention to the stillness, the ground, and to the quality of activity as it arises.