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Well, when will any meditation culminate in you finally ‘knowing’ the future isn’t real? In the future! 🤣

Can you see the oxymoron? If, as most ‘seekers,’ you do some form of meditation to ‘achieve’ a certain ‘goal,’ you have already set yourself up to reinforce “future” rather than invalidate it.

If you meditate simply because meditation is apparently happening, not to achieve anything, if you do it simply to celebrate the awesome aliveness inherent in each moment, not to be concerned with how things will feel, or how much you will have learned, in some “future” moment, perhaps meditation may seem useful.

The true meaning of meditation is simply being with What Is, dispassionately witnessing What Is, not What Isn’t, What MayCome, or What You Hoped Would Come.

In other words, the true meaning of meditation is simply…Being.

I like Andrei’s answer a lot, it’s a good ‘direction.’ But then, I like Andrei a lot, and love everything he shares here 💙🙏🏼

Between his answer and mine, I hope you resonate with the Now…now. Not in the “future.” :-)

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