Whats the First Question Beginning Meditators Ask?
One of the most fundamental questions we can ask ourselves is, why? There’s a good chance it was the first question about meditation that you wanted an answer to, why meditate? Whether we are aware of it we are all essentially looking for is a sense of happiness and fulfillment. Many of us, in our everyday lives, have come to believe that happiness, joy and inner peace, are the outcome of becoming successful, creating wealth, maintaining good health and having loving relationships. And as we strive to accomplish these goals in the ‘real’ world, and yet, increasingly it seems as though we are being consumed by our endless activities. So we continually fill our lives with more and more stimulation, in a race to stay ahead of this self-perpetuating cycle. One of the great paradox’s, in life, is that we believe happiness only comes from getting and doing, only to discover, that it comes instead from simply being. Success in life is the by-product of happiness, not the other way around. Thr
