Awareness Meditation Adapted From Yongey Mingyur Rinponche

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​When you meditate, think of someone you like and be at peace.
If you make someone you care about unhappy, then you will make yourself unhappy.
The goal of meditation is to help others and this helps you. Begin with someone you like and think that you are meditating for the benefit of all sentient beings. Small actions are fine.
Devotion is the head of the motivation. You need to have devotion to yourself.
You are wonderful you have more capacity and strengths than you think and you have innate goodness. We all are amazing, unique and wonderful!
You all have wisdom within yourselves. As you meditate you will go on a path of discovery. There is unlimited discovery within oneself and you should have faith in yourself.
The essence of meditation is awareness which equals non-distraction. 
If you forget awareness, then you are lost; You forget what you are doing and where you are. Do not get lost because when you get lost you become dull minded.
The key point is awareness. Awareness is part of your basic goodness. We have to recognize our awareness and then awareness becomes an integral part our life. We should have continuous awareness, 24 hours per day.
It is not easy to consciously recognize and maintain your awareness. You are however born with awareness. If you recognize your own awareness then it becomes available to you. It is like recognizing that you have a 5 kg diamond in your possession. We all have this 5 kg diamond but we tend to beg for food; this is because we do not recognize that we have this diamond and that we are actually rich.
Recognize who you are and you will become someone different. By recognizing your diamond, your life will be wonderful, you will be as rich as never before. You cannot escape from awareness it is always there. awareness is pristine, like crystal-clear water or light and space. Pristine water can change through reflections and space can change by clouds. Reflections make it look as if the water changes. Just like our concepts and intellectualizations change our awareness.