Is Meditating Easy or Hard?

You’d think creating a blank mind would be easy, but for people who overthink, meditation can be a challenge. As we try to clear our minds, we start thinking about how to not think (more thinking) and it’s like looking in a mirror at a reflection of a mirror.

Let’s think about this differently. Imagine that each thought is a commuter train—a ‘thought train’ if you will. As we stand on the platform, it pulls in, opens its doors and invites us to enter. We do, the doors close, and we start going somewhere (more thinking).

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What if, instead of getting on the thought train, we stood back to see that the thought IS a thought and we don’t have to get on? We can watch the doors close and let the train leave the station. The thought can move on without us and dissipate. By doing this enough times and we end up with a distinguishably clearer mind.