so many beginners, the smallest sounds can make a difference. Even the pauses must be timed strategically.
If she leaves people in silence for too long, they may feel unsupported. They’ll wonder, “Where did she go?”
As we talk, I begin to worry that I am learning too much about her – that she took her first intensive
meditation course in treatment for an eating disorder, that she has used it to help deal with her relationship
with her father, that she still deals with anxiety, that she does not believe she has reached enlightenment,
that for two years she regularly worked 12-hour days on Calm. I worry that this knowledge might distract
me from my pure relationship with her voice. But when I put on the recording late that night in my hotel
room, her story falls away, and I fall asleep.
© New York Times