Meditation IS liberation
Beyond good and bad, beyond right and wrong, beyond labels of pain and pleasure, there is simply this field of changing phenomena, or what IS. Unmediated by the evaluating mind, unmediated by the ‘I’ thought.
And when we meet in this empty fullness, these words ‘I’ and ‘you’ no longer make sense. To try to hold on to stillness, or to push away the world of duality is futile, because they are both inseparably this One field. Form is exactly emptiness, emptiness is exactly form. To try to comprehend this with the limited mind, is the greatest of mistakes. Let the mind be a ‘don’t know mind’.
When this filter is dropped, we experience the field directly. Let the Mind relax and settle itself. Don’t resist the mind, but yet don’t get caught in the mind. Whatever you try to hold, slips out of your grasp. And whatever you resist persists. Therefore or to come to stillness, let go into the moving stream. Then both stillness and movement disappear. Meditation is not the path to liberation, it IS liberation.
True meditation is the dropping of the doer, dropping of the meditator and simply abiding in direct presence. It is being here now. In a way that is not mediated by the ‘I’ thought. The ego or the ‘I’ thought is simply resistance to what is. To meditate is to let go, or surrender that resisting ego, burning up all unconscious patterns within the conditioned self.
This form of meditation is not separate from your life. True meditation is coming into direct experience with life itself. It IS life. We invite you to join the Awaken the World Community every morning for sitting in silent presence. Whether you are new to meditation or you’ve been around for a while, you’re welcome come to join us in this place of silence and stillness.
If you would like guided meditations, or instructions to get established in meditation, please check out the many resources at awakentheworld.com You’ll find guided meditations, weekly and monthly events to support you in your practice, and you’ll find daily morning meditation times in various time zones.
For those called to awaken to their true nature, the 7 day ‘I Am Retreat’ is an online intensive, designed to create the conditions for Samadhi. See you in the Stillness.
