Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.

So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.

When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing—a knowing that comes directly from the cultivation of mindfulness—we may only go in circles, for all our efforts and expectations. So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.