Meditation is overrated…
…at least it is in the rarified form that it is sold to us. When I say the word, does it evoke images of sitting cross-legged on the floor with wrists resting upon your knees, palms turned up with thumbs gently pressing second fingers? I think there are probably only a few thousand people across the entire planet who can actually sit that way in comfort for any period of time. I might be dead wrong about that. I’m dead wrong about most truths, as you are, and every other one of the human species is. But I haven’t met very many who could… But more to the point, whether you’re forcing yourself to maintain uncomfortable postures while you try to achieve a state of nothingness or not, the court stenographer of your life that resides in your brain will begin reading back the transcript as soon as there is nothing more tangible to distract you. This is a process of the human mind. It will not go away. You’re stuck with it until you die. With persistence, you can for moments overcome it, and achieve the stillness where something that might slightly enlighten you lives, maybe… But a truly meditative state, where you have completely turned off all of your mental processes, and you are actually engaging in productive communion with your “inner voice,” or better still, the silence is rare, and highly unlikely. Read More →