Meditation…is the very inquiry into what is meditation

Good morning everyone,

Here is today's quote:

Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.

The Collected Works vol IX, p 192.

Here is my reflection.

We think we are serious about meditation but really we are only serious about the benefits of meditation. We are not serious about inquiring into what it is and so we don't free our minds. Instead, meditation gets corrupted by desire, and end is attached to it. So really, inquiring into the whole process of our desire is meditation. If we can act without desire then we have understood what meditation is.

Best wishes

Robert