Nothing Happens Next: Responses to Questions about Meditation

Great title, huh? This is a very helpful book for the beginner like me, addressing the repetitive, boring issues that the ego thinks makes you too unique and special to meditate. When she's sounds like she being obscure or isn't answering the question, she's just speaking to a different part of the person than the rational mind, the taming of which is one of the purposes of meditating. If you want to meditate but are afraid of pain, worried about doing it right/wrong, don't have enough time/strength/discipline/quiet, find parts of your body falling asleep, etc., check out this quick read. I also like that she hand-letters her books, with delightful little line drawings added in every so often.

After basic meditation instruction - which is easy enough, since there is so little to know or remember - and maybe even the purchase of a fancy meditation cushion or a snazzy bench, something keeps us from doing it. Even for ten minutes a day. Suddenly that ten minutes seems utterly precious and needed for some other activity. The resistance can manifest itself in numberless doubts and questions, which we invest in and thus feed our belief in our own inadequacy. Cheri Huber won't let us get out of it that easily. Here she is in her conversational, humorous style, answering some of the most frequently-asked questions about starting and maintaining a regular practice of sitting meditation. Her answers are direct, to the point, and unsparing. She addresses each question generously and practically, while also calling attention to the potential resistance underlying each of them.