Yan-David Erlich is the rare person who I feel comfortable talking to about meditation. I tell Erlich, who I first met last year, that I’m a meditator who constantly fails.
"Failing to meditate is meditation," Erlich laughs. "It’s not about pushing unproductive thoughts away, though that’s part of it. The biggest thing to recognize is this: You go through life thinking you know your own thoughts, and that they’re yours. But then you try to sit for ten seconds and not think—and you find out that you can’t. So are they really your thoughts?"
