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This gets asked all the time everywhere but I have to ask again, how do you get started? I've tried a million different apps (even got a Headspace subscription

• vitro 9y ago
  One thing is important - being regular. Like with cleaning the teeth, it is not enough to do it once a week. Just start doing it, perhaps every morning, dedicate 15 minutes of each day to the meditation. By doing it alone from the start is difficult. That's where sangha - a group of persons who practice meditation - comes to play. Others will help you and it is also easier to get up and meditate if you know that others come as well. Another tricky think is to get rid of your expectations. You may have many ideas what meditation should bring to you, just abandon them all and let meditation surprise yourself. My teacher always likened meditation to the soil dissolved in the glass of water - put soil in the water and shake it. Now just put the glass on the table and let it sit there for a while. After some time all the soil sinks to the bottom and above that you have clear water. Same goes with your mind and that's also an explanation, why it is necessary to be regular - your everyday activities just mix the soil with the water and you tend to loose the clarity. Just repeat and repeat. It is a wonderful activity.