To those curious - like I once was - about how you actually get started with meditation, I've used the introduction to mindfulness series over at audiodharma [1]. It's often hard to find resources that manage to actually separate meditation from zen/buddhist practices, and they do it quite well. The lectures are from Gil Fronsdal who's a Ph.D. from Stanford.

[1] http://www.audiodharma.org/series/1/talk/1762/