It takes an awful lot of effort to wake up as a human being. It’s far easier and simpler to sleepwalk our way through life than to wake up. Nowadays, however, we’re all having to question how we live our lives and that’s why you’re here, now, reading these words.

Someone who felt the need for a meditation practice recently got in touch with One Mindful Breath and, after taking part in a Monday evening online meditation session, said ‘I’ve had a look through your website and its great. Just what I’m looking for. So good I went through it all again looking for the catch. There has to be a catch, I thought. But I couldn’t find it. So where is the catch?’

I came to meditation hoping it might ease my nagging sense of unsatisfactoriness. I did initially experience a few moments of ease. However, as I continued to practice, the difficulties remained and often most visibly during meditation. As a result, I mistakenly lost faith in the practice and sought relief through other means.

Do you mow the grass outside your home? Described on RNZ National recently as a ‘green desert’, a lawn is a luxury good, a sign you won’t be needing to graze your sheep on every square cm of your section, and that you’re happy to waste that land.