There's nothing I would rather write tonight than all my thoughts on the subject of sex and meditation, but I'm afraid it would, 

a) take too long;

b) be too long (and I am trying once again to cut down on the length of these things);

c) certain parts of it would be less than family-friendly, so this chapter will have to wait for the book.

So instead I will simply write a reminder as to why we meditate. Of course there is the fact of the measurable download of bliss chemistry we receive each time we meditate. There is the extremely deep level of rest we receive, up to five times more deep than at any point during a night's sleep. We begin to calm down. We can handle formerly stressful experiences calmly. We can begin to recognize God in the faces of our friends, our loved ones, and eventually even in the faces of those people whom once upon a time we called our enemies. We tap into the plane of Being from which all creativity comes. And...

There are so many advantages to being a meditator I couldn't possibly name them all, but there is one thing I want to speak to because it has been happening to several people I know this past week. 

When we have a question about some piece of work--creative, business, social--as meditators, we simply note it and let it go. We continue to gather information toward an answer, but we do not try to 'figure it out.' We continue to let it go. And then at some point we sit down in meditation, we close our eyes and pick up our mantra, we have lots of thoughts, a little mantra, thoughts, thoughts, mantra, mantra... and all of a sudden there is thought of, 'oh, that's how I should begin the chapter,' or 'oh, that's the letter I need to write/conversation I need to have/boundary I have to set,' etc. And then we continue with our meditation, and when our twenty minutes is up (along with our two minutes of quiet at the end), we get up from the chair, we sit down at the computer or pick up the phone or jot down a note, and that question we've been holding gets answered. 

Nature wishes us to be happy, joyous and free. Nature counts on us to be exponents of evolution in our world. Nature uses us to express what nature wants to have expressed, colored by our individual personality. Nature wants to use us in the most beautiful way imaginable. As we meditate, we surrender more and more to being used in this fashion. We begin to count on it. We begin to depend on nature to give us the answers we need, because more and more we learn that the questions, too, all have been given to us by nature.