Small Lake Meditation

Making yourself comfortable, lying down on your bed or on the floor or wherever you can be comfortable. Maybe putting a pillow of some sort under your knees. Allowing your eyes to close and your body to melt into the floor or the bed. And allowing your attention to gently come into the body and to the flowing of the breath. Experiencing the sense of the body as a whole. Simply lying here, extended and breathing. When you feel ready, picturing in your mind's eye the image of a lake. Perhaps a lake that you know well and frequent. Or one that you've seen in a photograph. Or an imaginary lake for that matter. Just seeing if you can bring that image into vivid focus in your mind's eye. Noticing how it's an extended body of water held in a depression in the earth's surface. And perhaps fed by a spring or a stream. If you watch and observe the lake carefully, you'll notice that it's always changing. And yet it always also is itself. It changes as the sun moves across the sky. The light is reflected off the water in different ways. It even changes depending on the weather. Sometimes, on very cold days, the surface might be like glass. And reflect virtually everything with great precision that comes by. The clouds, the birds, the trees that might surround the lake. The sun as it makes its journey across the sky. And, for that matter, the moon and the stars at night. . .