Without practicing meditation, we do not reflect or pay attention to our daily actions, acting mainly out of habit. The world is full of contaminations and every day we are infatuated with them, sensual desires and illusions, even if we often don't know it. Meditation weakens these unhealthy temptations and desires by making us aware that they are arising and revealing that they are truly unhealthy. The temptation ceases only when the concentration we gain from meditation results in greater happiness than sensual pleasures can ever provide. While the satisfaction gained from sensual pleasures is fleeting, the meditator's clarified and concentrated state of mind accumulates into a calm and constant state. Only when we have calmed the incessant wandering of the mind and momentarily abandoned the attraction to sensory experiences can we become truly aware of our hidden motivations and the unconscious feelings that shape our thoughts and behaviors. It is also necessary to change our view of the world and ourselves. By facing these disappointments, desires and feelings we are able to give them up. “During meditation we learn to eliminate from the mind what we don't want to retain. We just want to keep in mind the object of meditation. As we become more and more skilled, we begin to use the same faculty in our daily lives to help us abandon thoughts that are