Cultivate the spirit of meditation like you cultivate your garden!
If awareness of awakening and living in stillness are the consequences of practice, seeking them will undoubtedly leave you at the starting point.
You will have to leave your illusions at the side of the road and cultivate the spirit of abandonment to advance on the path of meditation.
It is by abandoning all spirit of profit that we paradoxically obtain what we no longer seek.
Now that you know that you have to cultivate the mind of surrender rather than the mind of profit in order to reach this meditative mind, how, concretely, should you go about it?
Simply by abandoning your beliefs and opening yourself to emptiness.
Emptiness is a welcoming house, without doors or windows, into which our visitors, thoughts and emotions, are constantly entering and leaving.
To meditate is above all to observe and accept reality as it presents itself, it is not to flee from anything and not to seek anything, it is to remain simple in the 'here and now'.
When you meditate:
- Move as little as possible,
- Welcome everything that is about to happen,
- Essential contract that you must make with yourself,
- Stay still and observe everything that is going on inside and outside, without focusing on any one point.
- Be in a state of complete openness and not in a state of concentration which would be the opposite of what I am advocating.
Here is an important clarification:
To concentrate is to fix your attention on a specific point and close yourself off from other points. The spirit of openness, which is required here in the meditative practice, is, on the contrary, to remain open to the totality, without polarizing on any particular point.
Excerpt from the book Learn to meditate with Tangram meditation by Christophe Lorreyte
