The Importance of Expectation in Meditation

Expectation is the single biggest obstacle to beginning meditation and continuing with meditation. As long as we have that idea, as long as that is our expectation, then we're going to struggle with meditation. The second one is effort. We can try really hard to go to sleep, but it doesn't really make any difference. There are a few things that we don't necessarily, or we can't even influence through our effort.