SOME NOTES ON MEDITATION (PDF-1854)

A few of you have written with some questions on meditation, so I will try to answer those in a bit of a blog here. First, something about the difference between meditation practice and the results of that practice, realization. Many times when a building is built, it requires scaffolding to complete it, and when completed the scaffolding is removed. Meditation is a little like this. If we learn to play music, we practice playing scales and other complex finger and musical exercise. Yet the scales and finger exercises are not considered the final music. Meditation is also a little like this. As kid we learn to draw the alphabet, but we don’t write out the alphabet often once we have learned it. Meditation is like this.