The Purpose of Meditation -I ___ AKSHR

The Purpose of Meditation -I

The purpose of meditation is

personal transformation

which is not a matter of

the number of muscles

you can control,

but an effort

to free yourself

from your habitual

reactions to the world.

You believe that you are

separate from everyone else,

but as meditation reveals

you are not outside of nature;

you are simply one

of many forms of life

trying to survive.

The purpose of meditation is

to see beyond the illusion

without rejecting it

and to understand

that even though there may be

suffering in the world

it does not need to affect you.

The purpose of meditation is

to be able to sit with yourself

and your desires and fears

without judging them

or trying to change them

into something else.

The purpose of meditation is

to be able to see the sacred

in what you ordinarily would not

and to have a sense of the unity

that exists between all things.

AKSHR