Daily Meditation: Thursday, June 19, 2025

Sorting through our thoughts, feelings and desires - keeping only the purest

06/19/2025

For the majority of human beings, what matters most is to achieve material success, enjoy every possible pleasure and satisfy their ambitions. So they spend their time becoming darker and dirtier, and then they wonder why they are in such a terrible state. They do not know, or have never wanted to know, that to feel free, happy and at peace, they need to sort through their thoughts, emotions and desires, keeping only the best and purest, and discarding all the rest. We must learn to apply the daily sorting that we do with our food—discarding all the bones, skin, seeds, stones or other inedible parts—to this other kind of food made up of our thoughts, feelings and desires, in order to remove every trace of selfishness, aggression and injustice. This is the vitally important task to which we should devote ourselves every day.*