EPISODE · Oct 22, 2015 · 29 MIN

Talk 16: Surrender or Self-Improvement?

from I Should Be Meditating with Alan Klima: Guided Mindfulness Meditation and Discussion · host Meditation and mindfulness daily practice to remain interested in, and remember, being present in every day life and living

Meditation is about more than Self-Improvement. That is only its possible side-effect. If we bend meditation to our will and make it serve us, the only definite side-effect is frustration. At some point the meditator will have to make the switch over to something bigger than their sense of “Selfyness” and to a longing for […] The post Talk 16: Surrender or Self-Improvement? appeared first on I Should Be Meditating.

Episode metadata supplied by the publisher feed · Published Oct 22, 2015

Embed this episode

Attribution link and audio player

What this episode covers

Meditation is about more than Self-Improvement. That is only its possible side-effect. If we bend meditation to our will and make it serve us, the only definite side-effect is frustration. At some point the meditator will have to make the switch over to something bigger than their sense of "Selfyness" and to a longing for freedom that has been driving their interest in meditation all along.