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Why are You So Sure You Can't Meditate?
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I'm too high-strung. My brain never shuts off. Trust me, meditation is not for people like me.
People say that with total confidence, as if calm were an entry requirement. It's like saying the gym is only for people already in shape.
Episode Two clears away the things meditation isn't. Nobody handed you these on purpose. They came from pictures: the monk on the mountainside, the woman on the magazine cover with nothing in her head. You absorbed them without deciding to, and when your experience didn't match, you concluded the problem was you.
We take them one at a time. That…
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