Many times in non-meditation meditation we hear thoughts, but like like waves cresting upon the surface of the sea, we can simply wait for everything that arises to dissolve in its base. There is no control involved, just allowing. This what I often speak of when mentioning dzogchen or Zen buddhism.

A simple tool to gain access to this awareness is to gain mind presence via stillness, silence and spaciousness, then feeling each entry profoundly and knowing its accompanying feelings, we simply let go and dwell in openness.  When when thoughts appear we let them, staying in awareness you can let the inner body let go of a thought or not engage one. You are utterly devoid of meditator or meditation, completely beyond the meditating mind … beyond the beyond. When thoughts occur, observe and if they engage you, keep re-immersing. That’s all.

It is important that there is frequency in doing meditation this way. When we chop wood, we chop wood, when we carry water, we carry water. The simplicity of this infusing daily life (and those we interact with), with seeing and doing from awareness manifest, then our living practice becomes a kind of meditation in action. When we practice, we practice. 

This is paying attention to our actions in the grist of earth’s mill, so that our results are finer than flour. Imagine eating and sharing that bread. Mundane attachments or obsessions slowly weaken and attitudes begin to evolve. If you are able to meditate in this way, the awareness door is open. You can capture the primordial citadel right here and now.

Just say’n. 

PS Oh yeah, just in case you think I am a great meditator, I should set the record straight. I am nothing but farting gas, irresponsible and rank with desire … who somehow, someway, sometime and someday found this way.