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I hope to share with all of you a piece that has inspired me since I participated in my first meditation retreat a year ago with the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. One of my retreat teachers shared the following passage with us: "Why I Meditate (After Allen Ginsberg)" by Wes Nisker (radio show host and meditation instructor) I meditate because I suffer. I suffer, therefore I am. I am, therefore I meditate. I meditate because there are so many other things to do. I meditate because when I was younger it was all the rage. I meditate because Siddhartha Gautama, Bodhidharma, Marco Polo, the British Raj, Carl Jung, Alan Watts, Jack Kerouac, Alfred E Neuman, et al. I meditate because evolution gave me a big brain, but it didn’t come with an instruction manual. I meditate because I have all the information I need. I meditate because the largest colonies of living beings, the coral reefs, are dying. I meditate because I want to touch deep time, where the history of humanity can be seen as just an evolutionary adjustment period. I meditate because life is too short and sitting slows it down. I meditate because life is too long and I need an occasional break. I meditate because I want to experience the world as Rumi did, or Walt Whitman, or as Mary Oliver does. I meditate because now I know that enlightenment doesn’t exist, so I can relax. I meditate because of the Dalai Lama’s laugh. I meditate because there are too many advertisements in my head, and I’m erasing all but the very best of them. I meditate because the physicists say there may be eleven dimensions to reality, and I want to get a peek into a few more of them. I meditate because I’ve discovered that my mind is a great toy and I like to play with it. I meditate because I want to remember that I’m perfectly human. Sometimes I meditate because my heart is breaking. Sometimes I meditate so that my heart will break. I meditate because a Vedanta master once told me that in Hindi my name, Nis-ker, means “non-doer.” I meditate because I’m growing old and want to become more comfortable with emptiness.

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