Why practice?
I do not teach meditation so that you will be healthier and live longer.
I do not teach meditation so that you will bring more money into your life.
I do not teach meditation so that you will belong to another social, cultural or religious group.
I do not teach meditation so that you will look younger and attract interesting people.
I do not teach meditation to change you into something that you feel you are not already.
I teach meditation, in the tradition of Pure Dhamma, to give you the opportunity to see, know and understand the reality of this being that we call, 'self', and in that process be free from the imaginations of mind.
When we don't fully understand we make a big fuss around meditation, but actually we are just sitting still and not minding what the mind presents. More than that is ego desire, wanting something outside our usual experience of life.
Awakening is the only thing that has value in life, and when we practice with the right intention, everything becomes possible.
The obstacle to your happiness, no matter how much you can resist these next few words, is always yourself, and so our loving practice is not to 'get something', but to see something. We cultivate awareness to see our old story, our identification with it, and the consequence of that well established habit.
Until we understand this intuitively, our life remains the same, no matter what external changes we make.
The purpose of practice is not to acquire new ego based identities.
The purpose of practice is not even to be happy.
The purpose of practice is to be free.
May all beings be happy.
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