When the Body Steadies

Sit in your usual meditation seat in a quiet hour. The first ten minutes will feel ordinary, breath uneven, warmth shifting, small itches and adjustments. Stay seated, do not move. Slowly, the breath finds a steady rhythm, the pulse settles, the warmth across the body becomes even. The room and the body begin to share one temperature. Notice the moment when this evenness arrives. Inside that evenness, there is a quiet that does not belong to any single sensation. It is the body resting, at last, in its own steadiness.