When I first went to learn meditation, I had so many expectations about how special it was going to be. I was already on the spiritual path and was already doing meditation on my own. It was not at all what I expected. I didn’t know it at the time but I was about to change my whole opinion about what it means to have a spiritual experience.
I had never seen a meditation teacher and had never been to a meditation center, but I had a definite idea about what it was going to be like. When I first walked into the meditation center, there was a feeling of serenity that made me feel that this was the right place. I was very excited to meet the teacher who I thought was going to be from India wearing a robe with long hair and a beard. Instead, my teacher was dressed in a business suit and looked like a normal person. I was so shocked that I began to doubt that this was a man who could be my teacher.
