Meditation is the deliberate creation of ma inside your own mind. You sit. You breathe. You let thoughts arise and pass without following them. The space between thoughts — the gap where nothing is happening and everything is settling — that is ma. Five minutes of this practice each morning creates a quality of mental spaciousness that persists through the rest of the day.

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