"The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment;……" — Peter Matthiessen

"The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life."

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