The topic this week was an article by Joan Sutherland on the goal of meditation:

To meditate is to create the simple circumstances--pretty much sitting still and letting your heart-mind grow quiet--that allow this question to find you over and over again, so it can change you.

Joan Sutherland is a retired teacher in the Zen koan tradition. She is the author of Acequias & Gates, and The Awakened Heart: A Commentary on the Vimilakirti Sutra.