Meditations

Meditation

We normally consider ourselves to be a separate entity that carries out an activity called meditation to bring about state of peace, relaxation or, ultimately, enlightenment.

However, meditation is not an activity. Meditation is the ever-present space of awareness in which all activities arise, are maintained and finally dissolve.

In fact meditation is simply another word for our self, not our self as a body or a mind, but our self, this Knowing Presence that is the witness and substance of all experience.

Meditation is simply to abide as oneself and to allow the body, the mind and the world to be what they are from moment to moment, without any agenda or interference. In fact we can never be anything other than our self, but in meditation we abide as our self, knowingly.

Meditation is not a state that comes and goes. It is the ever-present Knowing Presence or Consciousness/Being that is our most intimate, fundamental and direct experience from moment to moment.

But meditation is more than that. If we look deeply into our experience, we find that this Knowing Presence is not just an open, empty space in which all things appear. We find that Knowing Presence is also the fabric out of which all experience is made.

In meditation we come to know our self first as the witness and then the substance of all things.

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