Meditation and Insight
The Power of Meditation
Meditation has the power to transform your body, mind and life.
Urges in Meditation
It is liberating to realize that you do not have to do anything now even though you have the urge to do something in your meditation.
Meditation and School
Meditation is like going to school where you gain new knowledge by seeing for yourself instead of accepting words from books and teachers.
Self-Knowledge 2
Knowledge empowers, self-knowledge transforms.
The True Value of Meditation
Meditation grows you within to meet your true teacher, your own life.
The True Value of Meditation 3
Meditation leads us to liberating realization. For example, the things that we try to eliminate in our meditation are our own creations and we often create our own suffering.
Life Lessons
Your life has lessons for you each day.
Stagnant Meditation
If you watched your breath for 10 years and learned little or nothing, it is like you went school for 10 years and learned little or nothing.
What You See
What you see is because of what you do not see.
The True Difficulty of Meditation
The true difficulty of meditation is not how to do it but why to do it.
Useful Things Become Useless
A useful thing becomes useless when you do not know how to use it. So do adversities in life and the thoughts that come during meditation.
Mental Chatter
Benefit from your mental chatter in your meditation rather than trying to get rid of it or running away from it.
Mental Chatter 2
Your mental chatter is your creation.
Great Intelligence 2
Ordinary intelligence sees only the cup but great intelligence sees the self and the world in the cup.
Not Breathing Alone
You are not breathing alone but with the universe.
A Greater Obstacle to Knowing
Not knowing what you do not know is an obstacle to knowing. Believing you know what you do not know is a greater obstacle to knowing. Knowing what you do not know removes the obstacles.
Three Kinds of Knowledge 3
Knowledge of nonself, the conventional knowledge, helps you get what you think you want. Knowledge of self helps you know what you truly want. Knowledge of both helps you grow beyond desire.
source: New Direction Archive