# What’s the Point of Meditating?

March 7, 2011

Many people love meditating, advocate for it, and believe it helps calm the mind, develop extraordinary abilities, and even attain Buddhahood. That’s all well and good.

But if you haven’t addressed the following issues, what’s the point of meditating?

1.Have you resolved the basic necessities of life: food, clothing, shelter, transportation, birth, aging, sickness, and death? If not, then what’s the point of meditating?

2.Have you addressed your sexual needs? If not, what’s the point of meditating?

3.Have you fulfilled your responsibilities to care for your parents and properly raise and educate your children? If not, what’s the point of meditating?

4.Have you dealt with the worries and frustrations in your heart? If you’re still burdened by them, what’s the point of meditating?

5.Have you repaid the debts you owe from past lives? If not, what’s the point of meditating?

6.Have you accumulated enough merit in this life to secure entry into the heavenly kingdom in the next? If not, what’s the point of meditating?

7.Have you uprooted the weeds of negativity from your mind? If not, what’s the point of meditating?

8.Do you know where you’re heading next? Are you familiar with your destination? If you don’t know where you’re going or what awaits you there, then what’s the point of meditating?

If these eight issues remain unresolved, don’t bother meditating. Doing so would be like "a blind man lighting a lamp—wasting wax."

Once you’ve resolved all eight issues, only then should you meditate and cultivate the Lifechanyuan "Transcendence from the Physical Body Meditation Method."


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