Things you need to learn to meditate

The key things you need to learn to meditate include:

• How to relax the body
• How to sit in a comfort, steady posture for meditation
• How to make your breathing process serene
• How to witness the objects in the train of the mind
• How to inspect the quality of thoughts and learn to promote or
  strengthen those which are positive and helpful in your growth
• How not to allow yourself to become disturbed in any situation, whether you judge it to be either bad or good

—Meditation and Its Practice, pp. 13-14