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Meditation Is The Only Intentional, Systematic Human Activity Which At Bottom Is About Not Trying To Improve Yourself Or Get Anywhere Else, But Simply To Realize Where You Already Are.

The Real Meditative Practice Is To Open Up To The Full Range Of What Happens In Life. And Parenting Is A Fantastic Arena For Doing That Kind Of Spiritual Training. It's As Much A Potential Door Into Enlightenment As Anything Else.

But When We Start To Focus In On What Our Own Mind Is Up To, For Instance, It Is Not Unusual To Quickly Go Unconscious Again, To Fall Back Into An Automatic-pilot Mode Of Unawareness. These Lapses In Awareness Are Frequently Caused By An Eddy Of Dissatisfaction With What We Are Seeing Or Feeling In That Moment, Out Of Which Springs A Desire For Something To Be Different, For Things To Change.

When You Pay Attention To Boredom It Gets Unbelievably Interesting.

To Let Go Means To Give Up Coercing, Resisting, Or Struggling, In Exchange For Something More Powerful And Wholesome Which Comes Out Of Allowing Things To Be As They Are Without Getting Caught Up In Your Attraction To Or Rejection Of Them, In The Intrinsic Stickiness Of Wanting, Of Liking And Disliking.