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Sometimes when I finish meditation session,
I feel a little bit relaxed.
When someone is experiencing meditation,
It's a qualitatively different experience.
For example,
Can you become so deep in the meditation that you completely forget all stimuli around you?
Do you get some kind of profound insight to your existence?
Or is it more like a spectrum of experience,
Like a little bit more relaxed than a beginner,
But nothing very different?
The objective of meditation is not to become comfortable.
Meditation and comfort is the basis foundation to starting a meditation.
It consists of three things.
First you must be able to have a singular focus on a single object or a single thing while your body and mind is relaxed.
You should avoid any purpose or any intent to do well.
Just as you watch the tides come in and waves come in and go out in the ocean,
You must be relaxed and watch and just observe without intent.
And second condition is that you must be awake to what you're observing,
Clearly awake.
For example,
If the ocean is coming in,
Know that it's coming in.
As it goes out,
Know that it's going out.
And third,
There will come a time when you lose focus because you're distracted by straight thoughts or other external stimuli.
At that point,
Do not engage in regrets,
But just refocus and regain that wakefulness and mindfulness.
So all you have to engage in is to refocus once you lose it.
If you get distracted,
Refocus.
Just repeat that refocusing.
And do not try to make a judgment of whether you're doing this well.
This is not so well.
You did this poorly.
Do not engage in any sort of those types of judgments.
Even the judgment based on this meditation is working for me or it's not working for me.
Do not even engage in those types of evaluations.
Just in a relaxed state,
Focus on the edge of your nose and be mindful of the breath going in and out.
If you lose it,
Then regain that focus.
Gotta be steady and consistent in that.
And as you become consistent,
You gain the capacity to realize the emotions that arise in your everyday encounters.
And you develop the capacity to be awake to the different emotional and feelings that arise in your everyday interactions.
In some ways,
You are able to maintain a very sensitive self-diagnostic capacity so that you are immediately aware of what happens to yourself.
And you also are able to free yourself from everyday judgments of whether you're doing this,
You're doing poorly,
Or whether this is good or bad.
So ultimately,
You're able to free yourself from the negative emotions of whether there's hatred or anger or other negative emotions.
In a state in which those negative emotions have been extinguished,
That's a state we call nirvana.
Even the thought of what happens,
What's the objective,
What do I achieve through meditation,
What are the goals I can achieve through meditation,
Even those statements or thoughts of intent should be let go.
And this is the most difficult part for me in teaching meditation is that people will need to let go of any intent or any judgment or evaluation of their performance.
And when doing meditation,
That's very difficult to do.
