Every once in a while, I like to post something that comes from another site related to meditation, from someone doing research into mind-body medicine, or from someone else who teaches on methods of meditation. In this case, it is with extreme pleasure and reverence that I post the following “Glimpse of the Day,” which comes from a great teacher of meditation and Tibetan Buddhism, Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

This short reminder, from the Glimpse of the Day, essentializes what is most precious about working with one’s mind through the practice of meditation. It speaks so wonderfully that I need say no more. Enjoy!

October 7

The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and, most important of all, complete absence of grasping.

The diminishing of your grasping is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous “wisdom of egolessness.” When you live in that wisdom home, you’ll no longer find a barrier between “I” and “you,” “this” and “that,” “inside” and “outside”; you’ll have come, finally, to your true home, the state of nonduality.

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