Your Intentions Come First
June 12, 2015
The passages we chant before we begin to meditate are for the purpose of firming up your intention to sit here and meditate, to be with the breath for the whole hour. To begin with, we think about principles of kamma: that the body is not going to stay with us—it’s going to get old, grow sick, die; we’ll leave our friends; all we’ve got is our kamma. And that comes from the mind. So the mind needs to be trained, to make sure that its kamma is good.