How Meditation Didn ’t Nearly Save My Life

My first introduction to meditation was shortly after I moved to the US in 2006. I was attending a two-day workshop and one of the speakers claimed that he’d have committed suicide if he’d not been introduced to meditation. That made me sit up and take notice. Not that I’d been contemplating suicide, but my sleep had been hit and miss since I was in my late teens and I did have a tendency to get stressed a tad too easily. As soon as I got home I jumped onto Amazon to peruse the ironically, overwhelming selection of cd’s from meditation teachers. One of the people who seemed to be popular and have great reviews was a Buddhist teacher by the name of Bodhipaksa. I cannot remember now why I never read the authors bio, or even if there was one, but I was in for a surprise when the cd arrived a couple of days later. I popped it into the cd player by the side of my bed, sat cross-legged on a couple of cushions and waited for the inevitable enlightenment. I think it’s fair to say that I wasn’t expecting to hear a gentle Scottish lilt coming at me. I opened my eyes and paused the cd. Surely there was some mistake and the cd had got mixed up with some other. I’d spent quite a lot of time in Scotland on business over the years and I couldn’t ever remember encountering anybody called Bodhipaksa, or even McBodhipaksa for that matter. I picked up the case and started to read about the teacher on the back. It seems there was no mistake, and that Bodhipaksa, although now livi...
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