Apple meditation

APPLE MEDITATION Before you rush to devour your apple – hold it in your soft palm - be tender to the fruit as if you’re holding the planet earth – feel the apple with all of your body. Feel its contours and shiny and smooth skin, feel its folds and ruffles, its ups and downs, its laughter feel its glory and its readiness to merge with your body. look at it again as if looking into the beloved’s eyes – touch it as if touching the warm hands of a friend. feel it passionately. make love to it. smell it with all of your body. Slowly put it in your mouth. examine it with your lips and tongue and with every part of you. ask yourself if you are ready to bite it. wait for seconds. when the urge arises bite into it gently. Pause. taste its flavor kindly and drink the juice and chew the essence very passionately. Deeply join with the fruit without wanting to go anywhere. as it goes down your body, be grateful for this, for the fruit that gave itself to you and for the earth and soil light and water and air that gave birth to it - kiss its presence with all of your organs.