Meditation is a sacred activity
When a person sits and meditates, it is a special situation; it is a sacred act of some kind. It has been said by Petrul Rinpoche, a great teacher about 100 years ago, that even if you have impure thoughts in the meditation hall, those thoughts are regarded as sacred thoughts. The most impure, most crude or confused thoughts, even those are regarded as sacred thoughts. Along with that, a sense of appreciating the discipline is in itself important, whether you have accomplished the discipline over all or not. If you fall asleep on your cushion, or feel that you haven’t actually sat and meditated at all — as soon as you sit on your cushion, you begin to mentally venture out all over the world, and the only thing that reminds you is when the ending gong sounds and you realize you are meditating, supposedly, physically — even then, even such daydreams and things like that are important. Meditation is a sacred activity.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche:
From “The First Foundation: Mindfulness of Body,” in the 1973 Hinayana-Mahayana Transcripts, page 39
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