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Talk 16: Surrender or Self-Improvement?

Talk 16: Surrender or Self-Improvement?

Meditation is about more than Self-Improvement. That is only its possible side-effect. If we bend meditation to our will and make it serve us, the only definite side-effect is frustration. At some point the meditator will have to make the switch over t...

I Should Be Meditating with Alan Klima: Guided Mindfulness Meditation and Discussion · I Should Be Meditating

October 22, 201529m 10s

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Meditation is about more than Self-Improvement. That is only its possible side-effect. If we bend meditation to our will and make it serve us, the only definite side-effect is frustration. At some point the meditator will have to make the switch over to something bigger than their sense of “Selfyness” and to a longing for freedom that has been driving their interest in meditation all along.

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