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Meditate - You can't live without it
Meditation is a process of training and transformation. For it to have meaning,
it must be reflected in every aspect of your life, in all your actions and attitudes.
If it is not, you have wasted your time. Therefore, you have to persevere with
sincerity, vigilance, and determination. You need to make sure that over the
course of time real changes are taking place in you. Though there is no denying
that the goal of training the mind is to make us capable of maintaining a certain
way of being in the midst of our activities, to say right from the beginning that
your whole life and work have become a meditation is probably a bit premature.
The hustle and bustle of daily life rarely provides an opening to experience the
strength and stability necessary for meditative practice.
This is why it is important to devote time to meditation practice itself, even if
it is only 30 minutes a day. Of course, if possible, more is better. Especially if
you practice in the morning, meditation can give your day an entirely new
“fragrance.” In a subtle but profound way, its effects can permeate your outlook
and approach to the things you do as well as to your relations with the people
around you. As you continue through the day, you can be strengthened by the
experience you have had in your formal meditation session. You will be able to
refer to it inwardly because it will remain alive in your mind. During pauses in
your daily activity, it will be easy for you to revive the meditation experience,
which is now familiar, and you will be able to maintain its beneficial effects.
Practicing meditation as described above is compatible with an active
professional and family life. Meditation makes it possible to see the events of
your life within a larger perspective. It allows you to experience them with
greater serenity without falling into indifference, to accept whatever happens
without a sense of resignation, and to envision the future with confidence and
altruism. Thus, little by little, through training the mind, you can change your
habitual way of being. You can develop a more accurate understanding of reality
and a finer understanding of the laws of cause and effect, so you will be less affected by the reversals that inevitably occur in people’s lives, and less carried
away by superficial successes. These are the signs of a genuine personal
transformation, a transformation that will enable you to act more effectively in
the world you live in and contribute to building a wiser, more altruistic, and
kinder society.
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