The End of Search
The question is not how to meditate, what system to follow, but to understand what meditation is. The `how' can only produce what the method offers, but the very inquiry into what is meditation will open the door to meditation.
The question is not how to meditate, what system to follow, but to understand what meditation is. The `how' can only produce what the method offers, but the very inquiry into what is meditation will open the door to meditation.
In pursuing that enquiry , what becomes all-important is to understand the seeker himself, and not what he seeks.What he seeks is the projection of his own craving, of his own compulsions, desires. Then all searching ceases. Then the mind is no longer grasping at something beyond itself, there is no outward movement; but when seeking has entirely stopped, there's a movement of the mind that is neither outward nor inward. Seeking doesn't come to an end by any act of will, or by a complex process of conclusions.
To stop seeking demands great understanding. The ending of search is the beginning of a still mind. And a still mind acts like a clean slate, anything can be written on it and can also be expunged whenever one wants to wipe it out, for, only a clean mind has no ripples and is most receptive as well as contemplative. Otherwise, the mind's perpetually in turmoil.
Meditation is that extraordinary attention in which there's no maker of effort, no end or object to be gained. Effort is a part of the acquisitive process, it's the gathering of experience by the experiencer. The experiencer may concentrate, pay attention, be aware; but the experiencer's craving for experience must wholly cease, for the experiencer is merely an accumulation of the known.