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.