Meditation as a discipline for life

Especially when you are later than you mean to be when you meditate, sitting out the full 30 minutes can be a challenge!  The rate of good ideas which come streaming in to the mind are just asking to be attended to and are unrelenting to so you have to steel yourself to sit it out for the full 30 mins even if your eyes keep looking at the clock and seeing it going soooo slowly.  The buddha, see below, hadn't moved a muscle since I was last there, and didn't move one right through the whole rather active meditation - just simply being himself.