People often complain, "I don’t have time for meditation."

Meditation is just like breathing, you don’t need any separate time to breathe. Meditation is nothing but awareness, a witnessing consciousness. Bring awareness to everything you do - walking, talking, eating, sitting and sleeping.

People often inquire, "Which is the right place to meditate?" It is a very significant question. If we find a particular place where we feel good and it offers a good ambience, then that’s the place.

The first very important lesson of meditation: Treat everything with sensitivity - even those things which do not look alive.

There is life everywhere. Before you enter into the field of meditation, become alert and aware. Bring the quality of sensitivity with you. Meditation is going to make you more sensitive and intuitive. You yourself will become more alive - full of abundance with a sense of life you have never known before. You will feel a general feeling of friendliness toward all. This existence will stop seeming inimical and hostile. You will carry that aura of friendliness and calmness that meditation brings. This will touch others too, but most importantly, it will enhance that place where you meditate. It will actually welcome you.

The temples too breathe with such life. Just by bowing your head mechanically at these places of worship, you cannot make them into a temple. Only if someone meditates at some place sincerely, does that place become a temple. A real temple.

Gautama the Buddha meditated under a bodhi tree and one day there was an explosion of enlightenment. The blessed bodhi tree was a witness to this ultimate explosion and imbibed the vibrations. The tree remains alive even today. It has become a unique temple and a symbol of inspiration to thousands of seekers. Such is the magic of meditation.