There is intense propaganda against the practice of sitting meditation. If you are a meditator, you may hear “why don’t you get up off the cushion and DO something?!” Meditation IS an extremely powerful and subtle form of doing something. You are actually witnessing the intricate machinery of consciousness. The action part is the activity happening in your mind-stream. As you are observing you are not separating yourself. We practice training so that when we get up off of the cushion the friendship we make with ourselves extends out into the world. “Engaged Buddhism” needs to come out of awareness rather than paranoia based on hope and fear.

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