If we don’t know what the purpose is, then we get overwhelmed, and we keep on reacting, reacting. We make ourselves worse. This is our ignorance. The purpose of the vibration is good, to give us a warning. I am angry, and the vibration has started, because of that anger. That is a warning to me: “Look, don’t be angry, otherwise you experience this, and this will multiply.” Now, if I don’t take any interest in that warning, I will harm myself. But a very good purpose is there, so you start observing it: “Well, look, a sensation has come because of my anger, now let me see how long it lasts.” I have made it a tool to come out of my anger.

Excerpted from Meditation Now: Inner Peace through Inner Wisdom, pg. 32 by S.N. Goenka

Translated by Dhammacetiya (PLS)

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