Meditating (again)

Throughout my life, I have been meditating on and off. I have meditated long enough to feel like I have a general shape of what meditation, as is taught in the buddhist tradition, is getting at. Of course, I am still very much a beginner and have no profound realization. I am starting anew my meditation practice and I am starting with the Samatha practice, or calm-abiding meditation, or zhi gne in…