Cultivating the skills is the real key to advancing in meditation, not just the addition of more and more techniques, although knowing techniques is important.These skills work together, like fingers on a hand, and bring one ever closer to meditation, samadhi, and Self-Realization. There
Using mindfulness and concentration is not really a process of gluing together two systems. Because of various teaching lineages pulling them apart and creating the appearance of separateness, it can now seem that we are integrating two systems. It is
You cannot do meditation but you can become meditative. Meditation is a certain quality. It is not a certain act. The mind does not like meditation because if you keep the body still, the mind will also naturally become still.
