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Lesson 12.3: How to Meditate

Greetings, all! I know it’s been a while since the last lesson, but I’ve been thinking about something and I wanted to introduce it as the third installment of the meditation lessons. You can find the first two here and here. So let’s get to it!

First of all, “thinking” in itself is probably contradictory to what I’m about to say. And as a human being in this society, I am susceptible to thought. To filling empty space with words. To classifying things that do not need to be classified - the self as human, these words as a lesson, this community as a mystery school. I do not mean to project rightness or wrongness onto my (our) constant act of classification, but rather I want to show you how being mindful of our obsession with words can make meditation possible.

As Osho says in “Zen: The Path of Paradox,” meditation is the absence of mentation. A true state of meditation, as I said in Lesson 12.1, is presence. Rather, the absence of mental activity. Our approach to presence often involves trying to live in the present moment or making an effort to be present. In reality, this takes us further from meditation. Meditation is not and cannot be about effort. It is about the lack thereof. We call it mindfulness, but really it is being mind-less.

Many people already understand this, but the problem is that our approach to it sometimes becomes aggressive. We are so used to trying in this world (trying to sound smart, trying to be spiritual, trying to understand) that even in the case of meditation, we try not to try. We know that we must be effortless, so we make an effort to not exert effort. This is where meditation becomes difficult for some people, even me. Merely sitting and being still is an act of unlearning, or at least that’s what it feels like. It is so different from what we normally do every day that it feels awkward, so our minds begin to compensate for how uncomfortable we are. The mind is not accustomed to not always running, always comprehending the constantly-moving faces and places it’s seeing and devising thoughts or stories around these sights. The mind is not used to being still. So it may try to run even faster.

The key is: allow it.

If you try not to think, you are not meditating. If you are thinking, you are not meditating. I know it sounds like a paradox, but there is a middle ground where your spirit truly lies, where God is: just be.

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