Why Meditate? Sogyal Rinpoche writes: "Generally we waste our lives, distracted
from our true selves, in endless activity; meditation, on the other hand, is
the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste
our full being, beyond all habitual patterns. Our lives are lived in intense
and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing,
grasping, possessing, and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with
extraneous activities and preoccupations.
Meditation is the exact opposite. To meditate is to make a complete break with
how we "normally" operate, for it is a state free of all cares and concerns, in
which there is no competition, no desire to possess or grasp at anything, no
intense and anxious struggle, and no hunger to achieve: an ambitionless state
where there is neither acceptance nor rejection, neither hope nor fear, a state
in which we slowly begin to release all those emotions and concepts that have
imprisoned us into the space of natural simplicity." --The Tibetan Book of
Living and Dying pages 58-59
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