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> The investigation found that most would rather be doing something – possibly even hurting themselves – than doing nothing or sitting alone with their thoughts

This brings up an old saying I learned years ago:

    If you're going to do nothing, don't do it here

Meditation is being active doing nothing. It's paradoxical, just like Zen koans are paradoxical. I don't meditate in the cross legged position however, and drift in and out of meditation doing everyday humdrum things like waiting for a bus to arrive, or my favorite: pretending to sleep, so I can actually fall asleep. Each preamble before sleep is itself meditation, and we can find ourselves meditating doing humdrum things like washing the dishes. You don't need to go to a monastery or wellness center to meditate. We are natural meditators!

[Jeff_Brown]

Switching on a podcast comes even more naturally to me. It's like I've outsourced a big fraction of my thinking. It's simultaneously delicious and repulsive.