Meditation is the Means to Non-Meditation

Meditation is awareness. But aware of what?

Awareness becomes aware of the awareness itself. Not finding anything else but awareness, awareness realises there is nothing else, and that it is pure empty clarity. In pure empty clarity, there is no concept of meditating or meditation. That is non-meditation. We have arrived at our true nature.

Prayers and chanting are a means of receiving blessings and radiating compassion. These blessings are clarity which is then radiated out as compassion, in a continuous cycle. We are not actually doing anything, but remain in clarity.

There is balance to be struck between reciting and knowing the meaning of prayers and chants, and just being a vehicle for the practice, where there is no practising.

One merely sounds the words in clarity. In the Chenrezi puja it says, “Appearances, sound and awareness are inseparable from emptiness.” Hearing without listening, seeing without looking, tasting without tasting, smelling without smelling, feeling without distinguishing: all the sense consciousnesses are wide open but not identifying. The other three consciousnesses of mind – perception, judgement and memory – are still and clear, and therefore there is no reference point.

So now the conduit from the senses to empty essence is pure clarity. This is “The clear light of bliss.”

For some, this may be ‘wondrous’.
For others, it’s ‘ordinary’.
It is what it is.