The Need for Agency
January 16, 2023
When you look at the Buddha’s sixteen steps for breath meditation, you see that in every case he’s telling you to do something. In fact, you train yourself to do something: You very consciously look at your actions to see whether they’re in line with what the Buddha recommended, and if not, you figure out how you can change them. This is a point that seems so obvious that you wonder why anyone would have to mention it
