Youth is the ideal time for inner transformation because it is the most flexible phase of life. Children are even more flexible physically and mentally, but they lack the understanding and experience needed for meditation. Youth occupies a unique middle ground—you are no longer a child, unaware of life’s complexities, but not yet settled into the rigidity of old age. You exist in a state of transition, and this transitional phase is the perfect moment to leap beyond the endless cycle of life and death.
Making such a leap requires courage, energy, risk-taking, and daring—and youth is naturally suited for all of these. True virtue arises from meditation, while pseudo-virtue is merely cultivated behavior. Most societies rely on pseudo-virtue because it’s easier to impose rules on children than to teach them meditation. This assumption, however, is mistaken. Children can indeed be taught to be meditative—often more easily than adults.
For centuries, the prevailing belief has been that children cannot meditate simply because they can’t sit still like elders. But meditation need not be stillness. For children, meditation can be active—they can dance, jump, run, and play, and still meditate. Their meditation is dynamic, not passive. If meditation is introduced early in life, children will develop a completely different kind of virtue—one that arises naturally from awareness rather than external rules. You won’t have to teach them what’s right or wrong; they will intuitively know.
This is the goal I strive for: to help you discover for yourself what is right and wrong. I offer no commandments, no shoulds or shouldn’ts. I want you to become clear and reflective, like a mirror, so you can see reality as it is. And any action that arises from that clarity is true virtue.