First off. I am not good at meditating, i've never experienced zen.  But something just clicked and it makes sense to me and I think worth sharing.

I suck at meditation so bad that I broke my meditation just now after like 2 minutes because I wanted to get this down lol

I been browsing how to's for this a lot.

Follow your breath or do a body scan, or be mindful of your thoughts right? these are the like, how you meditate type stuff we come across with the crux of it to be to empty your mind

But i sit there and i imagine other people trying and failing too and im like right, do a body scan, get distracted by thoughts for a bit, ok follow breath, get distracted by thoughts for abit, try really hard to not think anything. Start thinking of stuff

Then I saw some video and it was like don't try to empty your mind just let your mind empty itself! Makes so much more sense. All these how to videos just get me thinking how the fuck do I do this, but u literally just sit there and eventually the mind empties itself and then you notice ur body more and kinda do a body scan naturally, and then you notice ur breath and kinda start following it and then ur ego thinks damn this is genius you should write it down and you stop meditating.

But yea, i know loads of people trying and failing at meditation so this still might be helpful for someone. I never thought of it in the sense of letting your mind empty itself I was always trying to empty my mind!

Peace