Now About Meditation

When in mediation practice, we use the phrase “Just sit”.  It does not mean to sit passively and do nothing.  It is sitting with an Equanimeous stance based on deepening both your intellectual and experiential understanding of your existence.  It is an endeavour at deepening of our understanding of how our cravings, desires and attachment to material objects can be the roots of our sufferings.

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. 

Anger, annoyance, and impatience deplete your energy in a few moments. While through wise patient effort our resources are better deployed and this strengthens us in the long run. So we need to practice cooling emotional fires and learn how to soothe and alleviate fierce emotional disruptions in lives. This by holding whatever arises let it be good, bad or neutral in equanimity and the light of compassion.