The Quiet Revelation of Being

Just as we don’t practice falling asleep at night but simply let go of the mind, meditation in this approach has nothing to do with what the mind is or isn’t doing – it’s about being awareness knowingly. Like walking in the countryside with your dog off the lead, let your mind go where it will. It may stay quietly by your side or take off, but you needn’t follow it. Remain as awareness. Be sensitive to lingering expectations that something special will happen. Nothing is going to happen; what’s special is already present – you are inherently peaceful, unconditionally fulfilled. Enlightenment is not something special that happens but the quiet revelation of what we always and already are. Like getting undressed at night, nothing new occurs – our naked body, always present beneath clothes, is simply revealed. Our being is likewise always present, though often overlooked for its quietness and transparency amidst the noise of experience.

Just as we don’t practice falling asleep at night but simply let go of the mind, meditation in this approach has nothing to do with what the mind is or isn’t doing – it’s about being awareness knowingly. Like walking in the countryside with your dog off the lead, let your mind go where it will. It may stay quietly by your side or take off, but you needn’t follow it. Remain as awareness. Be sensitive to lingering expectations that something special will happen. Nothing is going to happen; what’s special is already present – you are inherently peaceful, unconditionally fulfilled. Enlightenment is not something special that happens but the quiet revelation of what we always and already are. Like getting undressed at night, nothing new occurs – our naked body, always present beneath clothes, is simply revealed. Our being is likewise always present, though often overlooked for its quietness and transparency amidst the noise of experience.