Sitting Meditation- “Meditation Is Love”
Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts · ccmindful
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Show Notes
“Don’t meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing enough. It offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless round of trying so hard that wraps so many people’s lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation as an act of love. How endlessly delightful and encouraging.”
Bob Sharples, from Meditation: Calming the Mind
Dipa Ma, the beloved teacher of Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield and others summed this very simply:
“Meditation is love.”
How do we embody this in our practice now?
Please note: no talk this week.