How do you meditate? For many people, meditation involves sitting down, often in some variation of Lotus (or just criss-cross applesauce) posture, closing your eyes, and focusing on breath. Maybe we use a mantra. Maybe we recite a sutra. Maybe there's a physiological component, like kundalini locks. But for most people, meditation involves stopping activities, and sitting in one place. Why is that?

I meditate while driving. I really do. It does not impede my ability to see what's happening and react to it. It may even improve it, I'm not sure. I meditate while grocery shopping. I meditate when I listen to a lecture or when I write. Meditation can be active just as it can be passive.

The goal of meditation is simple: find the quiet place in your mind, and rest there. It does not matter what your body is doing, or even what your mind is doing *outside* that quiet place. Thoughts and ideas could be whizzing by, but as long as you keep your awareness resting in the stillness, they don't matter.