Eckhart Tolle explains why meditators often sabotage themselves: they chase awakening as a future goal, which creates mental strain and blocks what they're after. True meditation means dropping the agenda and resting in what's already here.
The aim is to be present while you meditate, not to seek some future condition. This is a fundamental mistake that meditators make is they imagine a future condition that they want to arrive at or achieve. And they think, if I just practice more and harder, I will eventually achieve that awakened state. And that belief is actually a hindrance, because then you are doing a meditation. And if you are doing a meditation, you miss the one thing that is the awakened state. And we could call that being, the realization of being.
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