Meditation 101

Someone once asked Gautam the Buddha: "... you have meditated for so many years, what have you gained?".  The Buddha said ‘nothing’. Shocked the person says ".. nothing?". "So why have you struggled so many years if you were gaining nothing?".  The Buddha answered: "... I gained nothing, but I lost my anger, suffering, delusions, pain, worries, sickness etc.".

This is the true reality of meditation. One gains almost nothing. There is in fact nothing to gain, what you need to gain is already within you. You were born with it; it is your unrecognized true nature, buried deep within your ego centric contaminated mind.  Only when this contamination is cleared (the glass is emptied can anything new be put in), your own true divine nature reveals itself to you. Meditation is the process of getting rid of the garbage under which your mind has buried itself, to reveal your true divine nature to yourself.  

Go for it and be joyful always :)  Only 30 minutes a day, early when you wake up, these are your very own minutes, let not ANYTHING - ANYONE take them away.