The beauty of sitting and studying your mind is that there is always more to discover. While observing the sensations on my body, I learned from many directions and slowly thoughts got very pointed. You have no choice but to examine your reality: tensions, stresses, pleasures and pain arrive and pass away. It becomes apparent that as balanced as you may feel on the surface, many impurities and imbalances exist. Even more astounding lies the capacity to understand the universe in its essence by examining the trillions of molecules that create our physical perceptions through an immense rapidity of arising and passing. While I meditate there is no doubt that my mind is in constant state of anicca (impermanence), thoughts come and go with the rapidity of a fire flickering. There is no turning away from the fact that all things come and go. Honestly observing the reality of all your sensations, and thoughts in the moment gives you a great capacity to react to these things. Habitually reactions to sensory objects create an action or attitude of craving or aversion. By these principles we lead our lives leaving the door open to a variety of miseries entering our life and creating imbalance. Meditation teaches you the capacity to change the habit of your mind and react to things from a balanced prospective that does not create craving or aversion. In stopping this fundamental reactionary process you stop creating habits formed by the inner self that obstruct pure happiness, love, and compassion. Further the old habits from the depths of your unconscious begin to arise and by observing this process with equanimity (evenness of mind or temper) these habits have no option but to pass away. Again so simple: be aware, remain equanimis and naturally your mind will purify, thoughts will sharpen, and life will be easier lived happy.