Many people feel that meditating is not for them. They feel, “I just can’t meditate.” That’s largely because they don’t clearly understand what meditation is and what it requires. Meditation essentially means that our thoughts rise above our situations and go towards a different object. Now, we all do this whenever we worry. We may be in a particular situation, but we start thinking about some completely different situation and get consumed by those thoughts. When we have the capacity to worry, it means we also have the capacity to meditate—we just need to redirect our thoughts toward an object that is unchanging, rather than an object that is changing, which induces worry.

If we can worry, we can also meditate.

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18.35 And that determination which cannot go beyond dreaming, fearfulness, lamentation, moroseness and illusion – such unintelligent determination, O son of Pṛthā, is in the mode of darkness.