Beyond Meditation

Meditation is the method to still the mind from circling thoughts, distractions and reactions. As we can’t be aware of two things at the same time, we focus on the breath. This simplifies attention. Meditation calms the mind down so that we (consciousness) are free, detached from thoughts and reactions.

Once silent stillness arrives, we drop the method and rest in what we are – pure consciousness.

When distraction returns, we apply the method again, and then drop it again. There is no rush, as everything is perfect: the meditation, the distraction, the awareness, the forgetting, the remembering … it is all emptiness within pure consciousness.

No thing, no thought has any ultimate reality – they just seem real because everyone else thinks they’re real. Then we the wash the dishes and we sweep the floor … remembering that we are the gap between thoughts. Short moments, many times.

In this way, even prayer becomes a distraction as it’s a duality – me and whatever I am praying to.

Non-duality is pure awareness.
Like a mirror, whatever occurs just reflects, without attachment.