So, I asked, is the next step to observe that but not to attach emotion to it?
‘Right,’ he said. ‘If you are attaching some emotion or expectation then you become mindful [of that]: “Oh, I’m expecting something wonderful to happen. But it’s not happening. I feel like a failure.”’
The key to meditation, he continued, is ‘to see yourself objectively in a non-judgemental way: that’s the meditation.’