I Almost Strangled a Fellow Meditator

Gaining Mastery Over Your Stories Is No Less Than Mastering Your Life

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I came within a hair’s breadth of strangling a meditator.

My fellow retreatant was sitting about sixteen inches to my right. He’d been right there for the last seven days. I could have picked him out of a line-up by the sound of his breathing, though I’d hardly seen his face. And that sound was becoming unbearable.

We’d been sitti…