The monks don't meditate to become calm, but to see clearly. Calm is a side effect. Most Western practitioners have mistaken the side effect for the purpose, which is a bit like going to the gym just ...
100% this
the gym shower metaphor is brilliant honestly
I started meditation to deal with chronic pain, over the years it became about silencing the monkey mind, to now accessing any state of mind I wish to hold. My mind is an agora for my thoughts and feelings, this is where they play. The greatest challenge in life is mastering the greatest tools you have been given, your heart and your mind.
as western philosophers would say 'temet nosce'
the gym shower metaphor is brilliant honestly
I started meditation to deal with chronic pain, over the years it became about silencing the monkey mind, to now accessing any state of mind I wish to hold. My mind is an agora for my thoughts and feelings, this is where they play. The greatest challenge in life is mastering the greatest tools you have been given, your heart and your mind.
as western philosophers would say 'temet nosce'
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