This video seems to tie well into AMRAP mentality that I mentioned in my previous post. I deeply resonated with this video because pushing myself to my limits felt like a better form of meditation than being mindful of doing nothing. People limit meditation to just going to back to their breaths. That form of meditation is just practice for the rest of life. Your entire life is meditation, and meditation is your entire life. Practicing by focusing on the sensation of breath passing through your nostrils is equivalent to practicing slowly driving a car in an empty parking lot. The heart of zen is Setting up a series of practices for yourself Disciplining to allow yourself to contemplate the biggest questions that exist and feel more of your experience. Enligtenment is going to work and getting there on time. Meditation is Creating a new video Learning a new skillset that you have to learn Sticking to a plan appropriately and loosely with a beginner's mind and a mindset of freshness, accepting that whatever is coming up is a new experience different from all other experiences and diving deeper into it, not thinking that you are the expert all the time but instead allowing yourself to learn. Work-outs are part of meditation. Working out even when you don't feel like it is a heart of meditation. Falling off of the attention from the breath and going back to it is a metaphor for what we do in our lives. That's a metaphor for disciplines we have in our lives that help us become the best version of ourselves, realize our potential, and have enlightened lives. We all fuck up and fall off here and there. Noticing that we fuck up and fall off and coming back to those practices and habits and disciplines and actions to create better lives for ourselves is the point. As a result of your meditation practice, you should be a more successful person because you should be creating more successes in your life. You should be full of successes because you had each one of those practices that you set up and get done with each one of them. When you start falling off and are not doing what you could be doing and get right back to it, that is the heart of zen. You can create whatever you want to create, given enough time with these practices. Creating the life that you want is the byproduct and a result on the side of you focusing on doing things that you know are important to do. Focus on getting done with those practices. You're responsible. You owe it to yourself. You have an obligation to nail these practices that you know are important. Just do them. Just focus on doing them. Meditation isn't just sitting down. Meditation is the entire life. It is having those practices, noticing when you fall off, acknowledging it, and getting back to it. It is not focusing too much on goals, but focusing on the process. It's good to have end goals. It's good to challenge yourself. It's good to see whether what you are doing is creating what you want. But, it's always to focus on the process and on those practices.