Now About Meditation

To forget the self does not refer to the elimination of personal qualities or self-experience. It is also certainly not to eliminate a sense of self, which has wonderful capacities and can give us that strength that allows us to hang in there, let go, tolerate pain, and encounter suffering.  To forget the self is to drop our cravings, learn to see through our reactive patterns of behaviour and judgements as many time these are the causes of our own suffering.   

To break with the norm means to first start a revolution within your own mind. A true revolutionary is someone who breaks down the rigid power structures and egoic defences within through practising mindfulness and awareness training and through love and compassion .

Practising mindful awareness of...our conditioning and habits of the mind helps us to know what we are up against within ourselves as we seek to make the necessary changes to better ourself and the world.

It is said that the Buddha, after emerging from his awakening under the Bodhi tree, distinguished himself from other enlightened beings by not dwelling in quiescence , but demonstrated his unsurpassed and complete awakening by speaking up.

The more comfortable we are with our own selves, the more comfortable and authentic we are with others. To get to know ourselves more fully and authentically it requires work.  But with time we start to understand the absolute truth of non-self.