The 'Non-Meditation' of Simply Abiding

Awareness is pristine, empty, luminous, at peace, needing nothing. In everyday life, we allow ourselves (awareness) to become entangled in, coloured and conditioned by thoughts, feelings, sensations and experiences. The pure ‘I am’, which refers to our experience of our self, awareness’s experience of itself, becomes ‘I am agitated, anxious, sad’. The ‘I am’ refers to the presence of awareness, while ‘agitated, anxious, sad’ come from experience. In everyday life, we become conditioned by experience. In meditation and this ‘non-meditation’ of simply abiding as awareness, our thoughts, feelings and sensations take on the qualities of awareness: transparency, emptiness and peace. The agitation, sorrow and tension in our thoughts, feelings and body dissolve in awareness. The mind and body return to their natural condition of ease, openness and peace, not through practise, but by soaking in awareness. Over time, this effortless abiding has a powerful effect on the mind, body and world.