Dan Brodribb

Here are some of the questions I often hear beginning meditators ask: How often should I meditate? How many times a day? Why couldn’t I empty my mind? What should be happening?

Here are questions I—a slightly more experienced meditator—often ask myself: Should I be meditating more? Should I be meditating better? Why are the same things coming up over and over? Have I been making any progress at all? What do the three lines from the Starland Vocal Band’s ‘Afternoon Delight’ that have been playing over in over in my head through my entire morning meditation have to do with enlightenment?

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