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When meditation feels like nothing more than sitting quietly

I meditate every morning for twenty minutes and I keep waiting for some kind of breakthrough or enlightenment but mostly I just sit there thinking about my grocery list.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The expectation of spiritual achievement obscures the subtle transformation already occurring in ordinary presence.

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