Sitting without a sitter
I just published an article on Wildmind. I keep forgetting to mention them here!
When I was on my first ever meditation retreat — two weeks of intensive meditation in the Scottish Highlands — I'd sometimes hear the instruction, "And now we'll just sit." No further instruction was given! And we'd sit there for a period of time — maybe ten minutes, maybe thirty minutes.
It was at first deeply confusing. I was sitting there waiting for further instruction. I wanted to be told what to do. Then I'd get bored and restless. Thoughts would come and go and I'd get caught up in them.
As the retreat went on sometimes those thoughts would begin to clear, and the mind would become …
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