The meditative journey is not about always feeling good. Many times we may feel terrible. That’s fine. What we want is to open to the entire range of what this mind and body are about. Sometimes we feel wonderful and happy and inspired, and at other times we deeply feel different aspects of suffering.

Joseph Goldstein

from the book Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom

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• Just sitting and watching
• Seeing impermanence deeply
• Awareness of thoughts
• Becoming aware of suffering
• Freedom Lies in the Wisdom to Choose
• Undistracted awareness
• Being with it fully
• Purpose of practice
• Like a cloud passing through the sky
• The foundation of goodwill
• The wonderful paradox about the truth of suffering