Burning Up Past Conditioning and the Fire of Meditation

When you talk about burning up past conditioning and the fire of meditation, is that something you're doing through willful intention or is it something you're witnessing as a process? That's a great question. Like how much rubbing two sticks together do you have to do to get that fire going? Or is it more about getting out of the way and allowing it to happen? Yeah, it's the second. So what you're really trying to do is just observe reality as it is. And then eventually you come across the truth, like whether you want to call it like the unconditioned or the ultimate truth or an abana.