We remain unable to finish the business of this life. By taking responsibility for what we feel, taking responsibility for our actions and speech, we build the foundation of the path to freedom. Somewhere within us, there is a residue of that posture of the mind, that attitude of the heart. In order to release it, to be released from it, we have to come very close. Then if we do harm again, we forgive ourselves, and start from the beginning, with the right intention.
Meditation is all the time.
Meditation is coming into union with our true nature. We cannot be free. By reflecting on our virtuous, or wholesome actions we are taking responsibility, and this is a support for the practice in the present moment. We feel the momentum of our mindfulness, confidence, trust, the energy of purity of mind, and that helps us to keep going. Contemplating things that I don't feel good about can perhaps bring a dark cloud over consciousness.