A Couple of Practical Uses

'Adventures are to be welcomed and embraced. A life with no adventure is like a car that never leaves the driveway.'

We tend to think of adventures as physical pursuits. Climbing mountains, travelling the world, creating a rocket-car - there are so many possibilities. I'm all for these kinds of adventures, they broaden the mind, make life more meaningful and help us to avoid the worst of conditions; boredom!

Meditation enables us to indulge in other adventures that don't require plane-tickets or screwdrivers. Going to new places, discovering things we never knew about our own nature, seeing wonderful sights, are all possible when we embark on the 'internal’ adventure. This is reason enough to have a go.



'Happiness matters more than all other things. Happiness is a state of mind, not a state of affairs.'

One of the more useful things we can do with meditation is observe our state of mind, our thought processes. Misery and depression are strains of thought. If we can objectively observe our minds doing these things, we have the option of saying to ourselves:
"That's a load of bollocks , I'm going to stop doing that and do something else."

Observation of the thought process gives you control over it. It becomes a fairly simple matter to manage your state of mind.