In Tibetan language, meditation is GOM, which means familiarity. Developing familiarity with the positive qualities of mind, and cultivating… Mindfulness.

why do we Meditation?

the purpose of the meditation. Is to develop familiarity With our inner potentials of the mind. familiarizing… Or developing the habits of… Stability of mind.

 And through stability, focus.

More stable, more focus, more focus more clarity 

And… Stability is the antidote for… constant distraction.

 Focus is the antidote for… Directionless.

And clarity… is the antidote for confusion. Ignorance.

Slowly, when these thoughts of anger, thoughts of all the jealousy, and the habits of distraction, slowly subsided , then the jewel of compassion manifest.

While you are meditating. You could slowly reduce… the habits and the thoughts  of distraction…then all the potentials for goodness in the mind arises.

That’s why you need to meditate, is to understand that.

-notes from our teacher Ngodup Burkhar .