# 9 Guiding Principals for Meditation #### 1. Mindfulness means to remember, but remember what exactly? #### 2. Non-judgment is at the top of the mindfulness hierarchy #### 3. Sometimes pleasant and purposeful desires are the hardest to release #### 4. Strip away the layers, the more bare the better #### 5. Always begin with right view #### 6. Meditation is about the body as much as it’s about the mind #### 7. To be compassionate means to let go #### 8. Strength is created from the realization of your karmic responsibility #### 9. Awareness transcends the cycle of life and death