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ometimes we say that to extend your practice into everyday life is
to be completely involved in your activity, or to be one with things, but that
is not so clear. Then you may say that being caught up with baseball mania or
infatuated with gambling is the same as practice, but that is not practice,
because you are enslaved by it. You are not the boss of gambling—gambling is
the boss of you.” —Shunryu Suzuki
It is important to understand what is right practice. If we do not
understand what true meditation is, we will be putting everything at risk.
Krishnamurti is correct when he unequivocally states that "to know what is
right meditation is much more important than earning a livelihood, getting
married, having money, property, because without understanding, these things
are all destroyed."
In short, if we do not understand how to meditate, we lose our
very lives.
If you knew with certainty that your life was on the line, would
you not risk everything to save it? For as Eric Hoffer wrote,
"surely one's life is the most real of all things real, and without it
there can be no having of things worth having."1
Mastering the art of meditation will put the odds in your favor
that you will appreciate the phenomenon of life—your life. That is
something you can safely bet on.
1. The True Believer
Was Eric Hoffer a Meditator?
ReplyDeleteEric Hoffer was a wise and compassionate man. He was also a shrewd observer of human nature. He probably understood the human condition because he studied himself. In that sense, he did indeed meditate.
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