Perfect practice.

The Pure Dhamma tradition of love and awareness does not belong to the world of ambition and achievement, and so it is never a good idea to set yourself targets and goals in the practice, but to simply sit everyday without aim or expectation. In this way you will open the doors to all possibilities without looking for special signs and checking the spiritual scoreboard to see how far you have come since the last time you looked. Insight, and full Awakening itself, only happens when 'you' are not there. So the practice is to sit without waiting to get something, but to allow the intuitive understanding to arise naturally that what we call ‘self’ (I, me, mine and my) are simple movements of mind. Useful in the mundane world when claiming your seat on a flight, or your turn in a queue, but not much more than that! Where there is ‘self,’ there is suffering and so the more you intuitively see through the delusion of a permanent and enduring ‘self,’ the happier, more loving and less stressful your life will be. You will function fully in the world, but be at peace with the results of your endeavors. It is said that Pure Dhamma practice is like walking out on a long journey in the mist or fog, and slowly, slowly without realizing it you become soaking wet. Understanding is like this, perhaps not realizing how far you have come until it reveals itself in a new and unexpected moment of life. This is the way to give ourselves to perfect practice. To lose ourselves in an unambitious approach to Dhammic cultivation by simply doing what needs to be done rather than trying to become more spiritual.

May all beings be happy.