I was thinking about meditation last night after my regular sitting, especially the “Sitting quietly, doing nothing” aspect.

I was thinking that people go into meditation for any number of reasons, but if you go into it with expectation of a reward, you turn it into a standard chasing after the payoff type activity of the sort we do every day. But if you’re focussed on the payoff (no matter how nice it is), then you’re not meditating properly are you?

My line of thought is that by simply meditating for it’s own sake, without any grasping after a reward, the exercise will help us reduce our level of attachments and ego.  But there is more to it, I’ve found that I pay more attention and notice things more since I’ve been doing this, if I’d been focussed on the payoff would I have started to learn to do this?

It seems there’s more to sitting quietly, doing nothing than anyone thought…..