meditation

The core insight that got me interested: "moments of recognizing your thoughts drifting and bringing them back to your breath" are not failures, they are reps.

• each rep is a success that makes you stronger.
• you are training concentration like a muscle.
• it is satisfying and rewarding and important for the same reason weightlifting is satisfying.
• Ram Dass says there's a point of practice where you're in a meditative state as the default. Instead of saying, "Oh, I should meditate now.", you're saying "I should stop meditating so I can go do the dishes".

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