Question and Answer Venerable Style

Now the floor was open for questions. Silence echoed through the room. Maybe this was normal for a meditation group, but I thought I would get the questions going. I raised my hand. A translator converted my words into either the ancient language of Pali, or maybe Thai. "I am having trouble focusing for any length of time on keeping my mind still, any suggestions?" And there you had it, the classic beginners question. You hear it over and over and over. Still he answered me sincerely. "You have not found an object you are comfortable focusing on. Your mind is not still." So my take-away for this night was to revisit my "happy place" and reconcile the meditation place/object and the recommended center two finger widths above the navel. Finally another question was raised...