Should I count how many hours of meditation I do?

[Magnanimous]

I once heard Leo say to set a goal of 10k hours of meditation, but I'm not sure if I should track how many hours I meditate. Why? Because meditation is a lifelong (or a long-time pursuit that terminates when it fully crosses over into your non-meditating life) pursuit.

Should I keep track of it?

[Kksd74628]

@Magnanimous 

If tracking your meditation is option for you then I'd do it, because when you're later on the journey it could be fun to watch back at which point you had which awakening and so on. And also I'll save you from lots of years worth understanding and I'll tell you to start daily meditation like 1 hour a day or even more. That's the spiritual practice you'd want to have with you. All spiritual searching and watching videos should be secondary and should just support your personal journey and not the other way around. If you want some extra boost to your journey just PM me and we could plan a voice conversation so I could guide you towards your unique journey. This is going to be extremely beautiful ride for you. Just remember to fasten your seat belt and you're ready to go.

With love -joNi-

[caspex]

I did it for a few months and realized it's wayyy too much of a hassle. The fact that you start a timer or whatever and are measuring your meditation disturbs the authenticity of the meditation. Sometimes you stop meditating for a few minutes and go back to meditating. Do you count that as meditating? How will you measure such gaps accurately? How accurate are your estimations? It's not so simple as to doing a particular amount of time during the day. The only measure of whether you meditated enough should come from inside you. Tracking how much you meditated isn't necessary unless you want to claim a title of "I have done 10k hours of meditation" which is a egoic pursuit. There can be other reasons but yeah. I don't think it's necessary at all but in fact hinders meditation. At least for me.