“Ten Minutes”

Meditation is difficult when I’m distracted. But my teacher eventually got it through my head that mindfulness isn’t mindlessness, achieving perfect, blank emptiness; it’s about being aware. Sometimes what you’re aware of is the distractions. That’s no reason not to sit down.

As you might guess, this story is born of my own experience with meditation — up to a point, anyway. Fortunately for me, I am not meditating under the conditions faced by the narrator of this tale . . .

It has been published by The Cosmic Background, and you can read it for free online!