We meditate; to meditate is to collect our mind. When we walk, we pay attention to each of our rising and falling steps. You feel as if you are beginning to get familiar with yourself; as if you are returning to your original thoughts; as if you would also return to the act of footsteps and know clearly each rising and falling step....
If the mind does not run amok, then you will experience the joy of returning to yourself.
Why do people like to meditate? Meditation allows our spiritual nature return to ourselves; our spiritual nature is always wandering around. It always thinking about whatever; it always looking at whatever. The mind does not like to be with oneself. Therefore, we have to use meditation to take back our mind, and to take it to be with ourselves. When we meditate long enough, we will find our original nature.
Do you know where are you dwelling? Are you able to see yourself within your body? This body is a false entity. When it dies, it demises; when it is ill, it becomes sick. It does whatever it wants to do. This body is our physical hindrance that results from the karma of our past lives. To live in this body is to experience the fruit of our past deeds. Therefore, whatever happens to this body, we will feel it, we will get sick and experience pain and suffering. But who is suffering? Does anyone know who is suffering? If this spiritual nature of ours is not here, then there is no feeling. If we do not live in this body, then we will not be sickened. Because the body is the physical manifestation of past action, you are using this body to experience the fruit of your past actions, both good and bad. This spiritual nature of ours is not a body - it is formless. So how does it experience suffering? That is the result of karma.
Therefore, when we say that we are practicing meditation, or acting on meditation, what do we mean? It is to let our spiritual nature to return to itself. If there is no body, you will not be able to see it. You will not be able to understand the spiritual nature of ours, this buddha nature of ours, and our original nature. To become a buddha is about finding the original nature. This is what Buddha has stated:
If one cannot find his original feature, then he would not be able to leave behind life, death, and severe worries.
Therefore, we have to mediate, to learn how to meditate in order to slowly collect our mind, to let our mind return to see ourselves, to let our mind to be with our heart, and to let our mind to live within our heart.
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