In meditation we are not trying to fix anything about ourselves. It is not about producing change, although change can occur. In a fundamental sense,  it is about being with ourselves and our life as it is. It is not about looking out there, but at ourselves, now, in this moment. It is complete as it is, if we could just see it.

When we start on this path, no doubt we are going for something…. Eventually we realize that we’re actually operating with a very dissatisfied mind, a greedy mind, a hungry mind, that it’s reaching for something.

What is it reaching for? Well, something imagined. Something projected out there. It’s feeling an inadequacy, that somehow we’re missing something. But were we to just settle into what’s actually occurring now in this very moment, there isn’t any straining, or striving, or struggle that’s taking place. It is simply a slowly opening up, awakening to just what is occurring here.

Steve Hagen