Emphasise 'I Am', Neglect the Content

Meditation doesn’t start when we sit in the mornings or end when we leave. The ultimate meditation – just being what we eternally are – is the one element of experience that never starts or ceases. If feeling ‘I am frustrated’ – emphasise the ‘I am’, ignore the frustration. Feel ‘I am bored’? Emphasise the ‘I am’, neglect the content. And so on, with even the subtlest of feelings and impulses. If we do anything to know, to achieve, to acquire or to become, we validate and perpetuate the subtle impulse of seeking. In doing so, we feed our sorrow. If meditation, or more accurately ‘non-meditation’, were falling deeply asleep whilst remaining wide awake, then everyday life would be being wide awake whilst remaining fast asleep. Remaining as awareness, utterly, intimately one with but never losing ourself to experience. Always tasting the imperturbable peace, quiet joy and causeless love that is the nature of our self.

Meditation doesn’t start when we sit in the mornings or end when we leave. The ultimate meditation – just being what we eternally are – is the one element of experience that never starts or ceases. If feeling ‘I am frustrated’ – emphasise the ‘I am’, ignore the frustration. Feel ‘I am bored’? Emphasise the ‘I am’, neglect the content. And so on, with even the subtlest of feelings and impulses. If we do anything to know, to achieve, to acquire or to become, we validate and perpetuate the subtle impulse of seeking. In doing so, we feed our sorrow. If meditation, or more accurately ‘non-meditation’, were falling deeply asleep whilst remaining wide awake, then everyday life would be being wide awake whilst remaining fast asleep. Remaining as awareness, utterly, intimately one with but never losing ourself to experience. Always tasting the imperturbable peace, quiet joy and causeless love that is the nature of our self.