Meditation is Not to Get Anything - We Meditate to Understand & Let Go | Ajahn Dhammasiha Talk on Buddhism

When we sit down to meditate, we often start with an attitude of trying to get something. To attain Samādhi. To get enlightened. Not surprising that we often run into trouble and difficulties in our efforts!

Instead, we better direct our mind to simply try to see what's really going on, to watch, to observe mindfully, to understand wisely. In particular, we notice various forms of clinging and grasping manifesting. We mindfully recognize how the grasping and attachment inevitably results in some form of disappointment, 'dukkha', suffering.

Once we clearly understand that the clinging and attachment results in pain and suffering, our mind quite naturally lets go. And again, we mindfully observe how the letting go leads to the abandonment, or at least the weakening, of pain and suffering.

This process we repeat again and again in our meditation, until it becomes ever clearer to our mind. Understanding that letting go gets us out of suffering, we naturally incline more and more to letting go, until one day the heart can let go comletely of everything.

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