When we meditate we are not trying to do something, to make something happen.
We are trying to pay attention to what
is happening as it is.
So this is a very important point: looking deeply at life as it is; looking deeply only, not doing anything about it. Many people ask what to do
when meditating. Just pay attention.

Today I want to make the word sensation very clear. Have you understood the word as I mean it? What I mean is: when you feel cold that is a sensation, when you feel hot that is also sensation, when you feel pain anywhere on your body, that is also sensation, when you feel pleasant, that is also sensation, when you see something, that is sensation also, when you hear that is also a sensation,
when you smell, that is sensation, when you taste something that is also sensation. That is what I mean by sensation.

So when we meditate
we pay complete attention to sensations.
So you're now getting a gist of what meditation is.

When we pay close attention to say feeling cold, is there any
shape? There is no shape; a sensation of cold has no shape. So when we pay attention to feeling cold we don't think of the shape. We pay attention to the sensation only. So direct experience is something unthinkable; this is another point; do you agree with that? Do you have any doubt about that? Is there any confusion? Direct, immediate experience is unthinkable. You can only think about a concept,

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