Everything to do with us
The discriminatory mind is instrumental in creating suffering.
Meditation is the voluntary freeing of this life from suffering.
Both have everything to do with us.
Since suffering is the refusal to let go of selfish concern, the remedy is always close at hand.
In letting go of ourselves, we can be loved by our true nature and be loving.
Trying to use the mind to grasp fulfilment only builds doubtful resistance and loss instead.
Sincere meditation practice is giving devoted attention to this life and its teachings, and by its nature, devotion is its own reward.
As the discriminatory mind proves incapable of this, it can be confidently surrendered, step by step.
Please don’t use this generous, boundless life,
to make and defend a petty, isolating self.
Willard Lee March 2026