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We see meditation as a way to bring life-filled newness into our sense of self in daily life. Another way to view mediation is to see it as a process for consciously creating freedom in one’s life.

If we accept this idea of meditation, we can begin to see it as an ongoing life-blood process and not as any particular achievement. Meditation starts as a conscious process from within inner life and seeks to bring new ways of seeing into one's outer world.

This is a meaningful goal since we all need the feeling of real newness in life, not just once or twice, but pretty much continuously. Yet after childhood is over, how many of us can say external life adequately supplies that exhilarating sense of discovery?

In doing meditation we're not just waiting for a lucky day to happen for us - to be happy or rich. Lucky days may occur, or they may not. But with meditation we aim to be responsible to ourselves for our own inner sense of well-being.

How is this possible?