Counting The Breath

Meditation is primarily to control our mind from wandering, so that clarity can occur in a stable mind. This allows consciousness, the essence of mind, to rest in non-dual awareness, without taking sides, and realise our ever-present reality, beyond confusion. Meditation is the release from our dream-memory world.

We count our normal breaths 1-10 on every out breath. If a thought occurs and we follow it, we go back to 1 and start again. It’s not a matter of being ‘good’ at this; it’s realising how often we get lost in our dream-memory world. Hint: don’t try too hard – just relax.

We will notice a pause between the exhalation and inhalation, and vice versa; that pause is empty cognisant space, our natural being. Gradually, we leave the breath to do its thing, and rest in cognisant emptiness. That, in truth, is what we are, rather than who we are.

Who: used to introduce a clause giving further information about a person.

That is to say, it’s an add-on.
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