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You Only Need to Meditate Once to Glimpse a Profound Truth
But, we tend to miss it due to our frustration.
Lying in my bed I hear an alarm ringing. Dazed, I sit up and look for my phone. It’s lying right where I put it five minutes before.
Wasn’t I supposed to be doing something?
As I switch off the grating alarm it suddenly hits me — I was supposed to be meditating!
Or, more specifically, counting my breaths, which I realized, I had failed at epically. I’m not sure exactly when my mind had spiraled out of control, but it was somewhere in between breaths three and four…
I was understandably frustrated. I thought I’d squandered an opportunity to do something good for myself. What’s worse, I didn’t even know what had happened in my mind between that fourth breath and the alarm ringing!
Had I fallen asleep? Actually, now that I was thinking about it, I vaguely remembered my mind running through all that had happened that day.
That was not what I was supposed to be doing, I thought angrily.
This was my first meditation experience nearly 10 years ago. Following this, I meditated on and off for seven years before committing to a daily practice. Part of the reason it took me so long to make meditation a regular aspect of my life is…
