Question: So am I right in saying that insight meditation is to help to make us better, happier individuals?
ANSWER: Well that is a start, a very important start. But meditation has a much loftier aim than that. As our practice matures and our awareness deepens we start to notice that our experience is rather impersonal, that it is actually happening without a ‘me’ making it happen and that there is not even a ‘me’ experiencing it. In the beginning the meditator might just have occasional glimpses of this but in time it will become more pronounced.
ANSWER: Well that is a start, a very important start. But meditation has a much loftier aim than that. As our practice matures and our awareness deepens we start to notice that our experience is rather impersonal, that it is actually happening without a ‘me’ making it happen and that there is not even a ‘me’ experiencing it. In the beginning the meditator might just have occasional glimpses of this but in time it will become more pronounced.
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