Tree Meditation

Imagine that your feet, planted firmly on the ground, have become roots extended from yourself deep into the Earth. What is it like to have a body that unfolds itself under the Earth, traveling in the dark, to bring the water and nutrients up from the soil? Allow yourself, also to feel your body reaching in the other direction, as you become aware that your torso is a trunk stretching upward and your arms are branches reaching into the sky. Become the Tree.

Now this is the difficult part: Let it be sufficient to be a tree. Allow yourself to be aware that it's not more enlightened to be human. After you have come to know the tree deeply, you can practice this meditation as a bird, a stone, a star until you can become one with all life, with all forms of being.

— Deena Metzger, in Dharma-Gaia