Meditation has been part of my life for many years now, and one of the things I have come to appreciate most is how its real value accrues over time.
When I learned Transcendental Meditation in the Spring of 2008, I could not have anticipated all the places the practice would eventually take me—or the myriad ways it would become woven into my life.
It has accompanied me through scholarship, research, teaching, service, raising a family, building organisations and initiatives, periods of expansion and periods of considerable contraction and thus uncertainty. It has informed my exploration of consciousness and, eventually, became something I would have the privilege of teaching, along with my wife, to more than a two thousand people.
Yet beneath all of those larger milestones is something much simpler.
Twice each day, I sit to meditate.
That regular return to silence has taught me something important: meditation need not remove us from the complexity of life. Practised consistently, it can help us meet that complexity from that deep well of silence within ourselves.
This is one of the qualities I especially value about Transcendental Meditation. TM is not, in my experience, an exercise in forcing the mind to become quiet. It provides a simple, natural means through which the mind can do what it is designed to do—settle inward, beyond the surface activity of thought, toward increasingly quieter levels of experience.
And then we get up and return to life.
I originally developed Practical Tips for Cultivating a Regular Meditation Practice to help people with a deceptively simple challenge: not merely beginning meditation, but allowing it to become a sustainable part of everyday life.
The practice becomes part of the journey.
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