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• Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely, the path that is your life. Meditation may help us see that this path we call our life has direction; that it is always unfolding, moment by moment; and that what happens now, in...
• Meditation is the process by which we go about deepening our attention and awareness, refining them, and putting them to greater practical use in our lives.
• Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes use of thinking, honoring its value and its power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thoughts as thoughts rather than getting caught up in them as reality.
• Meditation does not involve trying to change your thinking by thinking some more. It involves watching thought itself. The watching is the holding.
• “The state of mind that exists when you sit in the right posture is itself enlightenment … These forms [sitting meditation] are not the means of obtaining the right state of mind. To take this posture is itself the right state of mind.