The hardest part of meditation isn't quieting the mind or tolerating sore knees or explaining to your family what the heck you're doing.
The hardest part of meditation is actually sitting down on a chair or cushion and beginning. Then, to get the benefits of meditation, the instructions become simple: Repeat for a lifetime.
That's why “Commit to Sit” is such a valuable new manual. It gets to the basics, including the initial problem of commitment, without a lot of intellectual chit-chat. Its contributors are many of the best – and best-known – meditation teachers in the West. (More)
Source: The Charlotte Observer
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