Goals tend to involve a heavy future component. The trick is to add a component that relates to the Here and Now as well. For instance, one could wish to become enlightened. This is a purely future-oriented goal. One could also wish to understand the true nature of the sensations that make up one's world so clearly that one becomes enlightened. This adds a present component and thus makes the whole thing much more reasonable and workable. One could simply wish to deeply understand the true nature of the sensations that make up one's world as they arise in that practice session or during that
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