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fevereiro 15, 2004
Gentle Voice Of course, you
Gentle Voice
Of course, you know what meditation is – sitting straight, breathing normally and so on. Anyway, when somebody is meditating, there’s a sense of somebody doing nothing. That’s quite good, actually. Meditation is basically doing nothing, absolutely nothing. That’s difficult! Thousands and millions of people want to do nothing. They haven’t achieved that yet because we need to do things, if not watching television, then reading a novel, throwing a party, chanting mantras, piercing our skin or dyeing our hair. We have to do something! The reason is that when we don’t do anything, we get left alone, don’t we? And that is something we don’t like because there’s a basic insecurity within us and that basic insecurity is actually not knowing whether we exist or not. And in order to convince ourselves that we exist, we need to have sex, shop or do something. Meditation is the opposite. Meditation is always facing the truth. So how do we face the truth? By doing nothing. That’s difficult! --Dzongsar Khyentse
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