Here is a mini-meditation guide with the aim of achieving a better relationship with the sometimes-difficult fact of existence, of being alive in the world.

Originally, I was going to put off sharing my thoughts on this kind of topic. I thought maybe decades from now, when I’m wiser and my life is close to over, I could start talking about this stuff in earnest, with lots of detail and references and maybe more of a specific lineage or tradition to back me up instead of being based mostly on idiosyncratic ideas. But there’s no way to know what the future will bring, and I wanted to get this down sooner rather than later, just in case it helps someone, no matter how imperfect these words may be.