BY KATHY SCHULTHEIS
MOST OF YOU READING THIS HAVE TRIED MEDITATION. And many of you have been successful. I do not write for you. I write to seek clarity. So, you who are devotees of this ancient discipline, please stop reading. I write for those, who, like me, tried to meditate and failed. For those of you who washed out, who ceded your minds to worry, you told yourself that you were not self-disciplined, that you didn’t do your breathing exercises, that it would have worked if you had just kept at it. So you tried again, and you failed again. And you gave up… wistfully, I assume, because you believed and still believe that there was something there to get but you just couldn’t access it. And so you are mad, mad at yourself, not at it, “the practice,” as those who can meditate call it. Why couldn’t you do this? You couldn’t get your mind to shut down, right?