I Can't Meditate, My Mind Is Too Busy

4/13/20261 min read

My mind is too busy to meditate.  It is not calm like the ocean.
My mind is too busy to meditate.  It is not calm like the ocean.

The mind is always active, always generating thoughts, just as the ocean always generates waves.

We can’t stop our thoughts any more than we can stop waves in the ocean.

Resting the mind in its natural state is very different from trying to stop thoughts altogether.

Buddhist meditation does not in any way involve attempting to make the mind blank.

There’s no way to achieve thoughtless meditation.

Mingyur Rinpoche, The Joy of Living

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