“I’m trying to understand what to expect with meditation.
Once I sit down and close my eyes it’s very easy for my mind to be still and thoughtless, just a witness to a black empty space.
Generally my mind is very busy, very logical but not so imaginative.
During meditation my mind is just in empty blackness, no audio and no impressions and no thoughts, I could hold it for relatively long but I get bored since it’s just emptiness and nothing.
However, after meditation, I don’t feel renewed or refreshed or enlightened as people seem to feel.
Should I?
Is this the point of meditation?
What should I do or try to make it more interesting?
Or is it supposed to just be 15 minutes of nothing?”
Take a look at your whole life.
Make a note of the challenges in your life.
Make a note of your goals in life, short-term and long-term.
These are now your meditation seeds.
Plant a seed before meditating by briefly thinking of a challenge or goal.
As you meditate, that seed will grow in your mind and instead of the black empty nothingness you will find that your mind will automatically get to work solving your challenges and finding ways to achieve your goals.
Life is a journey, meditating gives your mind the time and space it needs to work out which path to take.
Edwin Leo 