We are meditating when we stop meditating

 Sometimes, when meditating, we try too hard. We are attempting to hold onto a state. We may even be saying to ourselves, “I must stay meditating.” This is doing meditation.

 Then we come to the end of a session, and there is a sense of relief in not having to meditate…and that is meditation! Or is this just me? 😉

 In meditation, all we are doing is becoming familiar with natural awareness resting in emptiness. And being compassionate to ourselves: ‘ourselves’ is this ego that wants to feel good, so empty awareness is kind to it by merely acknowledging it and letting be. We don’t have to do awareness in emptiness – it’s our natural state.

 We are house holders and not nuns and monk, so we lead busy lives. We have to find time just to be.

 Of course if we don’t want to meditate, we can merely recognise our true nature, and that is Dzogchen. But let’s be honest, we don’t always remember, so sitting meditation – not meditating – is a good battery charger.

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