What is meditation?
The ocean moves with the wind, waves ripple through in an eternal dance of love. When the waves rise up, would they think of themselves as waves? Would they agree that they are waves, or they would protest strongly and say: no! I am not a wave, I am the ocean!
Seeing movement without seeing where does it arise from, what is the nature of the source of all appearance, that is how people look at the world, this is not seeing the nature of being.
Abiding as the ocean, while allowing the waves to move as the natural expression of the ocean, that is meditation.
There are many forms of practices called meditation, but the most essential meditation, is not some reflection using thoughts and thinking, it is not concentration, it is not a 'doing' of something, or some technique even, it is simply recognizing the awareness that is the baseless, uncreated, formless, primordial, condition of being. It is knowing the essence of the mind itself. Until that is seen, recognized, all other forms of meditations are just more contractions of the illusory mind, and is not the authentic path to the nature of being.
Authentic, liberating meditation, returns the mind to a simple and ordinary simplicity of being. There can be nothing but joy and love. If there is a doer and thinker - this simplicity has been lost. If there is no doer and thinker, in simplicity, the body moves, the mouth speaks and the heart beats all the same. Anyone wanting to discover their innate natural condition should discover this, seek until they find, ask until they are pointed to, listen until they are guided back home to their own ground.
