The Zen of Commuting

A very well-intentioned and sincere guy wrote to me recently asking me to contribute to his new venture, a website called www.meditationsfromthetube.com. Here's what I said in my reply:

 "Thanks very much for the message and for the information about your website. In terms of meditation during a commute, I’m not sure I have anything valuable to contribute, certainly not without writing an essay.

 What I can offer you is these three bullet points.

•  Take off the headphones 


•  Pay attention to what’s going on around you, and in you 


•  And as the Japanese poet Ikkyu put it: ‘believe in the (wo)man facing you now just narrow your eyes feel the deep love’"

What else is there to say?