Taking the Self Whole | Tricycle: "Reply by Discussion Leader Barry Magid on October 1, 2013, 12:24 pm
We all begin practice with goals, some conscious, some unconscious. Practice itself offers the opportunity to make explicit, make conscious to ourselves, what I call our "secret practice" --- the self-centered goals we all bring to the cushion one way or another. So our practice is to be present & to be honest - and our honesty about the frustrations and fantasies that arise through sitting will begin to make clear to us what we are "really" sitting for. Practice in this sense works by way of a process of deconstructing what brought us to it in the first place. An endless process of acknowledgement & subtraction as one goal after another falls away.
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