Meditation is a natural process — it's not a technique.
In the beginning, we often benefit from guided practice but, when the process takes-off it has its own momentum.
Techniques are employed in a different kind of learning i.e. knowledge acquisition and, applied learning.
True meditation isn't something we discover vicariously. Its not something that we 'do'.
It simply happens when we let-go, settle down and, settle-in. We are immersed/baptised in peace and clarity. Not as a ritualised practice, in truth.
There's an effortless movement through deepening levels of natural stillness.
Do you see the difference between doing something and, letting go?
In a garden we may be busy gardening. At other times, we may relax, kick-back and, just appreciate what's in the garden. Natural stillness is like this, we aren't busy with some kind of activity.
There's a letting-go of the imagined 'doer' and doing. It's about being not doing?
This is when peace starts to flower, open up. The most beautiful, fragrant flower in the garden of life.
There's no happiness without peace, plain and simple.
Meditation is what takes place as we let go of—not grasp or, cling to—experience, as it unfolds. Remaining still, settled, relaxed, nonreactive, kind.
We may slowly and gently relax the body and mind through directed attention, scanning and relieving tension consciously then, we simply let go and, feel/see what happens.
Allowing space for the breath to come into awareness and, not trying to ignore it, if it does, can be a simple way to enter natural stillness.
As a consequence of reaction-free attention while remaining still, the stream of consciousness—internally—the movement of thoughts and, the feelings they give rise to, loses momentum, gaps begin to open-up between thoughts and, the whole process begins to go into abeyance then, there's a natural stillness and silence.
This silence is then attended to, it's beautiful-quality becomes increasingly apparent then, we are left with the beauty alone then, a unique joy, total ease, no more grasping and clinging then, when there's no more grasping and clinging, the seperative sense of self vanishes.
If reaction-free attention is sustained over many days the sense of self may cease to arise, at all.
This opens up new vistas of discovery/seeing/being that were previously unavailable, inaccessible.
No parachute no ground…
It's possible to relate to experience in this way in daily life and, in meditation.
When this happens in daily life and, in periods of natural stillness, when there's an unbroken continuity of reaction-free attention, this movement towards stillness and clarity deepens.
It triggers a deepening process of discovery. The emergence of transformative insights.
This is not an exercise, a method that is practiced, a series of techniques enacted by someone.
As natural stillness deepens the idea of a someone doing anything is seen to be an assumption. The thinker, the doer, the experiencer, ceases to arise as a mental event, an act of self identification, a seperative ‘sense of self'.
This 'cessation' of subjective experiencing doesn't mean life—daily life—stops happening. Life goes on beautifully but, not as before.
Life isn't taken personally, life is living itself. It's always been this way but, it's rarely noticed or embodied in fullness/wholeness.
When the worlds in which we coarise come to stillness there's a true-cessation in 'emptiness' (suññatā).
The stilling of all formations.
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour” — William Blake
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