Choiceful Awareness
July 21, 2012
Sometimes our problem as meditators is that we’ve read too much, listened to too many explanations about meditation. We know what happens at the end and, given our general impatience, we want to rush right there. We’ve heard about all the wonderful things that happen when you gain discernment and insight arises, and so we want to be right there, right now, without building the foundation, without mastering the skills that are needed for that insight really to have an impact on the mind, to have the really desired effect—which is to train the mind not to create suffering for itself.