We Are Already Wide Awake

On the Progressive and Direct Paths, meditation or prayer is something that we do. On the Pathless Path, meditation is what we are. The art of meditation could be said to be sleeping deeply whilst remaining awake, just as the art of life could be said to be being awake whilst remaining asleep. On the Pathless Path, we start as the one and remain as that. There are no degrees of its awakeness, just as there are no degrees of the sun's brightness. We are already wide awake in deep sleep and deeply asleep whilst wide awake. If we take the experience of deep sleep on its own, as it actually is, without reference to any other state, there is no awareness of absence. There is just the awareness of being.

On the Progressive and Direct Paths, meditation or prayer is something that we do. On the Pathless Path, meditation is what we are. The art of meditation could be said to be sleeping deeply whilst remaining awake, just as the art of life could be said to be being awake whilst remaining asleep. On the Pathless Path, we start as the one and remain as that. There are no degrees of its awakeness, just as there are no degrees of the sun's brightness. We are already wide awake in deep sleep and deeply asleep whilst wide awake. If we take the experience of deep sleep on its own, as it actually is, without reference to any other state, there is no awareness of absence. There is just the awareness of being.