| What lies Beyond Meditation and what is Pure | | | | exists right now, is that same self-knowing |
| Awareness? We are often taught that Meditation | | | | awareness in which your entire life has been and |
| is the ultimate way to get to an Enlightened state | | | | will be appearing and unfolding itself without effort, |
| of Pure Awareness. Most of us believe that the | | | | then you will suddenly and/or gradually realize that |
| ultimate awareness is somewhere on the other | | | | it is that very same awareness which is witness |
| side of a 'path filled with obstacles' and that | | | | to both anxiety as well as bliss, to disturbance as |
| meditation combined with persistence is the key | | | | well as peace, to a chaotic mind equally to a quiet |
| to move through these personal obstacles | | | | one. So true stability, true freedom is not |
| successfully in order to 'reach' stable and pure | | | | dependent on any state of mind or meditational |
| Awareness; a mostly future-projected experience | | | | state, for these too will pass like all perceptions |
| often known as Enlightenment of Self-Realization. | | | | do. You are the perceiver of all of that and you |
| I have found something far more simple yet | | | | are that perceiver already. True freedom is |
| amazingly profound to be the case: | | | | already the case as that 'self knowing space' in |
| That Pure Awareness which we are so eagerly | | | | which all that is known arises and dissolves |
| striving towards with the help of meditation | | | | without effort. |
| techniques, is already the case! It is that ultimate | | | | Instructions on how to fully know your free and |
| awareness which knows every step of the way | | | | ever-present nature: |
| like a mirror is present in all that appears within it. | | | | By repeatedly taking a moment to recognize or |
| The awareness which we are looking for by | | | | acknowledge that Awareness is present right now |
| means of meditation and other such practices, is | | | | as the knower of whatever appears as your life |
| that which is already present as the knower of | | | | perception at that very moment. Simply stop |
| both the start, the middle and the end of this | | | | looking for something to reach or to achieve, and |
| imaginary path that we embark upon... | | | | simply acknowledge that something right now |
| Awareness is right now and right here knowing | | | | knows you are here doing or experiencing |
| seeing what we consider to be our ignorant state | | | | whatever might be perceived at that moment. |
| of mind and it is seeing our thoughts about | | | | Now at first this might not seem like much, but it |
| 'obstacles preventing us.' Then that same | | | | is in repeatedly making this acknowledgment of |
| awareness is also right there as our presence in | | | | awareness being present right there and then, as |
| which all meditation is performed to 'get rid of | | | | the knower of the situation/perceptions, that you |
| these obstacles.' Furthermore it is this same | | | | will find you can simply rest as the wide-open |
| unchangeable awareness in which the experience | | | | presence that you are. It is through repeated |
| of 'enlightenment' may appear! You see, you are | | | | recognition that your innate freedom and wisdom |
| already That which you are looking for! This is | | | | will become apparent, obvious and natural! |
| instant Self Realization. | | | | When this recognition of awareness becomes |
| So what is the role of meditation in recognizing | | | | more natural and lasting, you will decisively |
| the ever-present stability beyond all phenomena? | | | | discover some day that both meditation as well |
| Meditation as most people belief in it, is not | | | | as enlightenment is nothing but another perception |
| necessarily something to hold onto or depend on | | | | arising and dissolving within already perfect |
| for your state of well-being. Meaning that | | | | presence. So it is this all-inclusive, inescapable and |
| meditation as a means to an end, or meditation | | | | indestructible pure self awareness which knows, |
| as a tool to 'reach' something, can be seen | | | | yet remains beyond, all your experiences and |
| through to be pure fiction right this very | | | | perceptions right now, that is truly beyond |
| moment... | | | | meditation and all possible meditation techniques. |
| If you can recognize that that which knows you | | | | |