THE SIDESHOW (PDF-2083)

Looking back some forty years, the key to meditation progress (at least for me) has

been to just relax and allow the mind to rest. And by rest I mean the same thing you

mean by rest, as in "give it a rest." Resting in the present moment allows everything

whose time has come to present itself naturally. Using western psychological terms, if

we think too much about the future and trying to get to it or make it happen, we are

pushing the curve, what psychologists call being sadistic. On the other hand, if we dwell

on or overly prolong the past, we are behind the curve, as in: being dragged through life

by time. This is masochism.