Close your eyes and simply "feel" the spot your finger is touching. Then, after a couple of minutes, let your hands down. Continue to hold your attention on the spot just as you did when your finger was there.

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.

I no longer teach meditation, only software design.

Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting there trying, something will happen.

The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.

Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.