The preliminaries are the basic meditation practice - beneficial, supportive, warm-hearted, brilliant shamatha-vipashyana practice. Shamatha-vipashyana practice is not only the earth that we stand on, it's also the air we breathe and the heart that beats inside us.

From START WHERE YOU ARE by Pema Chdrn, 1994.
Published by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston.