Your practice will have certain goals and endpoints. There are going to be practices that you accomplish. You will finish some things.
But the defining characteristic of an authentic practice is that you are never done.
Never a time to hang up your shoes.
Never a time to retire for good.
Never a time to say that's it.
You will never arrive at the destination.
Your practice will always require you to find a delicate balance between being overwhelmed by conditions or withdrawing your presence. The more our minds grasp to situations the more we get sucked in and eventually overwhelmed. On the other hand, without compassion and the intention to benefit others, we will often find ourselves being stagnant and withdrawn.
The balance is difficult to find. It is enjoying peace and fulfillment, but always standing up and moving forward. It is being open and responsive, yet calm and stable.
Open and responsive. Calm and stable. Those you can identify in your meditation. Those you can carry forward into the world.
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