Andrew's latest Quote of the Week: "Unbearable Simplicity"

Q: I’m having trouble with meditation.

A: If you’re having trouble with meditation, that means you’re not really doing it. The powerful thing about meditation is its radical simplicity — be still, be at ease, pay attention. That’s the beauty of it — meditation means doing absolutely nothing. And there are only two positions in relationship to that: you either do it or you don’t. But often human beings find this simplicity unbearable. It confronts us with ourselves at the deepest level, and most of us just can’t bear that degree of transparency. But that’s why it’s important to learn how to meditate. It is only in the exquisite simplicity of doing absolutely nothing that you begin to be able to see yourself in ways you ordinarily would never be able to do. If you really engage with this unbearable simplicity, it’s impossible to hide from yourself.

Andrew Cohen