Hey friends, what's going on? Welcome to the podcast. I am Koryalin, as always,

I hope that you're doing good, that you're feeling well, and that the things

you're going to write in your life, you know, that you're years getting off to a

good start. On this episode of the podcast, I'm going to answer another listener

question. Everyone's while I throw up a form in my Instagram stories, we can

drop a question, and I got a nice one that I think would be just really

valuable for you all to talk about in this episode. That question is from

Simone, and essentially, the question is around, it's an idea in meditation

that you'll see various teachers will talk about the function of meditation in

different ways. And one of the things you'll see out there is that we should

not meditate to, quote, unquote, fix ourselves. That that doesn't have anything

to do with the purpose of meditation. And Simone expressed in her question that

it's frustrating to see that because it is kind of ambiguous sometimes, and

it feels counterintuitive to the act of meditation in some ways. And so I agree

with that. And from my perspective, you know, and everyone has a different

take on meditation, people who follow different schools are thought around

different traditions. Someone like me who follows no specific tradition, who I've

just always meditated, you know, for the last 25 years or so, through reading a

bunch of different approaches from various schools and styles, and then

mainly just experimenting with my own, my own approach to see what feels good,

what works best for me, what am I getting out of it and that type of thing. So,

you know, there's a lot of entry points to the ideas of meditation. And I think that,

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