There is a huge difference between meditating for five minutes and meditating for forty five minutes. The depth to which one allows the mud to settle when sitting for a longer period of time cannot compare to a short sit. Especially when there is so much, day-in, day-out, stirring up the mud of emotional unrest, uncertainty, fear, excitement, obsessive thinking, etc.
That said. Meditating for five minutes is better than none, and if I'd foregone those five minutes this morning, I would be in a very different head space today. Any stillness is helpful in helping me return to myself, to remember that I am more than the sum of my thoughts, and abide in a measure of calm and stillness as I journey through my day in mindfulness and as much awareness as I can bring to each moment.
Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?
From Stephen Mitchell's Tao Te Ching
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