True Meditation
True meditation has no direction, goals, or method. All methods aim at achieving a
certain state of mind. All states are limited, impermanent and conditioned. Fascination with
states leads only to bondage and dependency. True meditation is abidance as primordial
consciousness. •
True meditation appears in consciousness spontaneously when awareness is not fixated on objects of perception. When you first start to meditate you notice that awareness is always focused on some object: on thoughts, bodily sensations, emotions, memories, sounds, etc. This is because the mind is conditioned to focus and contract upon objects. Then the mind compulsively interprets what it is aware of (the object) in a mechanical and distorted way. It begins to draw conclusions and make assumptions according to past conditioning.
In true meditation all objects are left to their natural functioning. This means that no
effort should be made to manipulate or suppress any object of awareness. In true meditation
the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as
primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness (consciousness) is the source in which all
objects arise and subside. As you gently rel'aif into awareness, into listening, the minds
compulsive contraction around objects willfade. Silence of being will come more clearly into
consciousness as a welcoming to rest and abide. An attitude of open receptivity, free of any
goal or anticipation, will facilitate the presence of silence and stillness to be revealed as your
natural condition. - - -
Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive contractions and identifications, and returns.to its natural non-state of Presence.
The simple yet profound question, "Who Am I ?," can then reveal one's self not to be the
endless tyranny of the ego-personality, but objectless Freedom of Being—Primordial
Consciousness in which all states and all objects come and go as manifestations of the Eternal
Unborn Self that YOU ARE. ' ,
~ Adyashanti
Copyright ©1999 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.

Like going to sleep?

I am pleased that your sleep states are so meditative, Ian. Me? I wake from mine in a cold sweat or teeming with poetry. Hardly meditative. ah well.

Cheers,

Peter

I'm going to show this to my anaylist, when I get one.