Phil Watt, Contributor
Waking Times
For years I have said “we’re all philosophers whether we know it or not”, yet more recently I have also come to understand that we’re all meditators.
There are a few common barriers to the ongoing conscious practice of meditation in our current era. Many people have wanted to try meditation but never have, or they have tried but gave up after a relatively short time. This is due to different reasons, such as they didn’t think that they were learning anything, it was too tedious and ineffective, they didn’t want to invest the time required and/or they felt they didn’t have the capacity to become advanced at it.
Yet meditation is just like exercise—if we want to make our bodies fit for living or our brains fit for meditation, we need to keep at it...
