Meditation

(As it’s the new year we might as well start from scratch.)

Meditation is being ordinary.

If we look at the mind, we find it runs all over the place. The ordinary observer – the awareness – gets distracted, and we are hardly ever in the present moment.

But who are we?

We are that which is aware of these circling thoughts, and is distracted by them. If we don’t calm down, we will merely be caught up in this vicious cycle of existence. So we need to cut through this madness and find our sanity.

This is what meditation is about – calming down, and being more aware at the same time. The highest meditation is simply being aware of awareness.

We simply focus on the breath. Just be aware of the breath – the inhalation and the exhalation. Thoughts will come. Just let them go.
It’s your time to rest in the now (this is known as using the breath as a support).

Gradually, we become aware that at the end of an exhalation and before the next inhalation, there is a gap. We become more aware of the gap. The body is still breathing, but we become aware of just resting in that space. All the senses are open. We merely rest in awareness (this is meditation without support).

This is meditation…more or less!