Inner spaciousness. In this episode, Eckhart talks to a live audience about bringing meditation practice

or what Eckhart calls presence into our everyday lives. However, he cautions against making

meditation one more chore on our to-do list. He says, so often there is the underlying assumption

that we must become good at meditation or succeed at it,

that in itself can actually become a hindrance.

The idea is not to do meditation, but to be.

Many of you probably have a meditation practice.

As you know, I don't usually talk about formal meditation,

but it's wonderful if people have a formal meditation and practice it.

This is more about bringing the so-called meditative state into your normal life, presence.

Meditation is an attempt to become present.

Sometimes it works, and sometimes it remains an attempt for years.

And you can become a good meditator by sitting for an hour every day

and all you're still doing is attempting to become present.

Meditation can be helpful.

It can also become an obstacle to being present

because almost inevitably when you meditate you have this underlying

assumption that you are doing something, you are doing a meditation.

And in that doing a meditation you're trying to get somewhere, for example, trying to become still.

And so trying to become still is having projection

of a future place that you want to get to.

And there's an underlying sense that you are doing something.

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