Sit still, comfortably with your spine straight, in a quiet place where you can be undisturbed, preferably in silence.
Close your eyes. Bring all your attention to the simple, gentle slow dance rhythm which is your breath. Focus with all your being on that beautiful, subtle, delicate flow of air in and out through your nostrils. Make that flow so gentle, so calm, that if a tiny thread like a gossamer spider’s web, happened to be dangling in front of your nose, that thread would remain perfectly still, oblivious to the flow of breath passing on either side of it while breathing in, breathing out. Picture that thread now, and observe it closely, to be sure it is absolutely motionless.
Our breath represents our life. Our breath connects us with the cosmic energy, the universal force which sustains all life. And something more: our breath carries with it a profound spiritual message – the message of oneness.
In any room full of people, all together are breathing the same air. The air one person breathes out in one moment is the same air another will inhale the next moment, and vice versa.
No matter what are the differences, divergences and disagreements between all the individuals in a room, the air being breathed by all connects them, each to each and to all the others in the physical, tangible world, unavoidably. The people in the room are like one organism breathing one breath through many sets of lungs.
Now let us expand our vision beyond this room and include the entire world. All of us, in all of the countries on all of the continents, from all races, all languages, faiths and beliefs, rich and poor alike, are all breathing from the same atmosphere.
(to be continued…)