How to start meditating

I was very lucky to have access to a great book when I was a teenager: Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind, by Shunryu Suzuki, pictured above. It was a series of talks his students had transcribed. A very popular book, it helped me start meditating on my own.

I had already been exposed to Zen Buddhism by my mother and a teacher at school. I had read Zen Flesh Zen Bones and then with Suzuki Roshi’s book, which a friend gave to me, I…