Introduction

When i first started practising meditation, it was 19 73. The view from the main stream world was that meditation was really something very soteric, mysterious, other worldly. Like to share a story that was told at the first tation retreat I attended. A woman in her fifties said she wanted to go to india. She went ahead and made the reservations. And on the bus, she told somebody where she was going, and she said, oh, you know, that's at that place. You can only speak three words. So then she gets off the bus, takes a long train ride again, runs into pop that knew this goroo and reminded her of the