What's the Aim of Meditation To You?

[Bryan555]

I am very much with Pollyanna on this one. Started meditating a very long time ago, for reasons which mattered a lot then, but do not anymore. These days, meditation is a habit, a joy...and a "home base" from which to conduct my life.

The best advice I've seen on this site is not to look for results inside the meditation itself; but to see them in day-to-day living. That is 100% true for me. I see things every day which amaze and delight me. So what I feel about meditation can probably be summed up in the word "gratitude".

I guess that has become the goal: to feel grateful every day. Meditation is a gift from my SELF to myself. Quite an amazing situation, that.

[coachSychie]

We may define "meditation" as the art of consciousness becoming aware of it's own nature. This awareness is the discovery that intelligence itself is infinite, wondrous and without limit in the universe.

The aim of meditation is eventual complete self-realization. This is the experience of knowing the mind for what it is, in the ultimate sense—the real nature of the mind—in itself: pure, luminous, and unconditioned. This is the knowledge of mind and being. Only through meditation can we come to experience this realization.

[olmate]

@ Pollyanna and Bryan555
It is interesting how our motivation and intent evolves. Although given that we are all on a "journey" it probabbly comes as no surpirse that nothing in our practice is static. In reality, it continues to unfold and evolve right before our eyes.

Personally, I can't wait to see what comes next... and next.... and next.

@ coachSychie
I understand the teaching, but what is your experience?

Nothing but the best,

Olmate