Meditation

“Meditation is the art of focusing 100% of your attention in one area.”

Meditation for Beginners: 20 Practical Tips for Quieting the Mind

http://zenhabits.net/meditation-for-beginners-20-practical-tips-for-quieting-the-mind/

Meditation in Buddhism is where the rubber hits the road. Reading this book, or any book, on Buddhism is helpful insofar as it gives you some idea of what Buddhists are up to and lets you think with better information about whether you want to be Buddhist or not. But, as we suggested before, book learning is useful, perhaps necessary, but it is less than half of the whole deal. If you decide that you do want to be Buddhist, and you keep hearing people like me and Buddhist teachers talking about “the path,” you may wonder, how do I travel this path? Is it a literal path somewhere that I have to travel to India or Nepal to find?

It is not. You can travel the path in your own house. The way you travel the path, primarily, is to meditate. Meditation, like all of Buddhism, is really very simple. It might not seem that way to you now, mostly because it may be new and strange, but as you get to know it better, it should look ever more simple. This is an important point to keep in mind, especially if, like me, you have a tendency to make things too complicated. The good/bad part of meditation is that it allows you to start seeing your own mental habits, good and bad.

When you first start meditating, you may think your situation is getting dramatically worse, and you may be…