Teaching #59: Knowing Cessation
You are not practicing cessation in order to be somewhere other than where you are. Just the opposite is true: Knowing cessation means that, for the first time ever, you are able to be just where you are in this very moment, fully available and responsive.
Chapter 16, Pg 192
For your reflection: Take a solitary long walk and be honest with yourself: What is the nature of your spiritual ambition? Do you want all of your troubles to go away? Do you want recognition? Magical moments? What if attainment of cessation means that your life stays exactly the same, only now you know it as freedom?