Enlightenment is growing all the time. It is not something that happens once and is then complete.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
If you want to know your own mind, there is only one way: to observe and recognize everything about it. This must be done at all times, during your day-to-day life no less than during the hour of meditation.
Everyone we cherish will, someday, get sick and die. If we do not practice the meditation on emptiness, when those things happen, we will be overwhelmed. Concentration on emptiness is a way of staying in touch with life as it is, but it has to be practiced, not just talked about.
Sit just to enjoy your sitting; you don't need to attain any goal. Each moment of sitting meditation brings you back to life.
When conditions are sufficient, a cloud transforms into rain, snow, or hail. The cloud has never been born and it will never die. This insight of signlessness and interbeing helps us recognize that all lives continue in different forms.
Be free where you are.