Meditation is knowing yourself.

Meditation is knowing yourself.
Knowing yourself is setting yourself free from your delusions.
Setting yourself free from your delusions is being one with what is.
Being one with what is is enjoying eternal life every day.
Enjoying eternal life everyday is seeing yourself everywhere
in happiness and sorrow.

-Ven. Samu Sunim

Burning It Off

Today I have this image in my mind of burning off illusions and getting to the pure truth. I am imagining that I am on fire and stuff is just burning off of me, leaving me light and pure of illusions. It is a white hot flame verses a red flame. It is intense hot - so hot it is cold.

I'm actually not in this state but i know this state and I’m craving it. This is the state that comes after one wakes up and lets go of some illusion. I want to let go of my illusions but I’m gripping onto them unconsciously so tight that my consciousness cannot even seem to find where I am holding it.

I'm praying for mercy with these illusions. I don't even know what category they fall in or where they come from, all I know is that they're there because I feel the symptoms of illusionary thinking and feeling. That is the only clue that they exist for me. MERCY! BURN BABY BURN!