A year ago I was lying in bed bored at my parents house and on the nightstand was "Nothing Special" by Charlotte Joko Beck. A rather spartan book on zen meditation, it still had some thoughts I found interesting. Later I picked up her other book "Everyday Zen" which continued to focus on "work, work, work" to gain some incremental improvement though meditation. If there every was a Drill Sargent of meditation, she would fit the role. Still, I liked her simple dogged focus on meditation, and her descriptions of the games our mind plays on us, seemed to resonate with me.

Meditative Engineer || Oxymoron?:

Meditative Engineer || Oxymoron?:

How did I get here?

So, how did this all start? I had been curious about meditation for awhile, but I had noticed that as I aged, my stress sensitivity had gotten worse, not better. None of my various attempts to decrease the level of general anxiety seemed to be working. Exercise, alcohol, self help books, nothing seemed to be making a dent. Then, a curious book showed up.

So, some background. This blog chronicles my journey to explore meditation and monitor the results. The title, which I will get to in a minute, is a humorous attempt to merge the straight laced world of my engineering background with the mystical perceptions surrounding meditation. Is it a homogeneous mixture, or will the two worlds collide?