PRACTICE A HABIT (PDF-1749)

I have written here many times how meditation is first about building a habit and only later can it be said that we are “meditating,” like: much later for most of us. Like the scaffolding on a building, meditation “practice” is just that, practicing meditation, and not meditation itself. The practice or habit-building part of meditation has to eventually be let go of or removed, leaving room for the actual meditation itself. It is a little like those molds that form Jell-O our moms had when we were kids. When they are taken away, the form remains.