Sit just to sit.

Sitting meditation is not, as is often supposed, a spiritual "exercise," a practice followed for some ulterior object. From a Buddhist standpoint, it is simply the proper way to sit, and it seems perfectly natural to remain sitting so long as there is nothing else to be done, and so long as one is not consumed with nervous agitation. To the restless temperament of the west, sitting meditation may seem to be an unpleasant discipline, because we do not seem to be able to sit "just to sit" without qualms of conscience, without feeling that we ought to to be doing something more important to justify our existence. To propitiate this restless conscience, sitting meditation must therefore be regarded as an exercise, a discipline with ulterior motive. Yet at that very point it ceases to be meditation in the Buddhist sense, for where there is purpose, where there is seeking and grasping for results, there is no meditation. -Alan Watts

My note is that you don't really care what I could possibly have to say unless you can find a way to use it against me somehow.

Submitted July 30, 2017 at 08:37PM by WildFoxBuddha http://ift.tt/2v8VFlP