The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

So it is necessary that we don’t run from life, that we actually face what’s happening in an honest and sustained way. When we do this, we come to see that we truly do come to nirvana by way of samsara. This doesn’t mean we stay stuck in samsara. Instead, we unhook ourselves from it. We un-Velcro our samsaric and illusory thoughts, and by doing so,

It involves simplifying our basic psychology and our basic problems. Simplifying in this case means having no expectations about what you will gain by meditating. You just begin.

To transcend that, we have to uproot any kind of false security. The karmic force seems to enforce the security of the chain reactions of cause and effect.

When our saṁskāras are suspended, instead of experiencing a sense of anxiety due to tension between our projections and the truth, we may experience a deep sense of physical relief within the body; the glorious feeling of the residue of truth.