Sit comfortably and close the eyes.
Take a deep breath and allow yourself to be at peace.
In meditation nothing needs to be done.
Nothing needs to be controlled.
It's not a practice of controlling,
It's a practice of noticing.
Practice of seeing that which is always there,
That we usually look the other way.
And that which is always there is your living conscious being.
When you sit to meditate,
Take a deeper breath and then allow the air to escape your lungs naturally,
A little faster than normally.
This will allow you to extend the gap after the breath out for two or three seconds longer than normally.
Notice in this gap how much peace is there,
How much stillness.
And then when the breath comes in,
Notice how this peace,
This stillness of the space in between breaths,
Notice how this stillness doesn't change when the breath comes in.
So we are not actually achieving peace.
We are not controlling it.
We are noticing that it is there,
Always there at the back of every thought,
At the back of every event and every perception.
The canvas of your every moment is limitless,
Vast,
Unmoved peace.
And you can easily tune into it.
You can use the gap in between two breaths as an assistance in noticing that stillness at the back of every moment.
But once you notice it,
You can just keep your attention on it.
You can keep noticing it throughout your day,
Throughout your meditation and afterwards.
Even thoughts will not disturb your meditation.
Just the way breath coming in and out doesn't disturb this stillness and peace of the background space.
Just in the same way when thoughts come,
Notice that this stillness,
This silence is just the same.
Right now you are hearing my words and so your attention stays with these words.
But when I become silent,
Did anything happen to your attention?
Did it become a different attention?
You can check it directly yourself.
Is your knowing power any different when you listen to silence between two thoughts,
Between two sounds?
What is your knowing power any different when words begin to flow or thoughts rise?
So in meditation,
You yourself are able to directly check that your knowing presence is not changed by that which you know.
So thoughts do not change you,
Do not divide you,
Events,
Situations,
Experiences,
They do not change you.
You are continuous,
Pure,
Unchanged presence.
And knowing this is practice of meditation moment to moment.
Knowing this is your shield and weapon because now you can remain true to what you just discovered yourself that your living conscious being is indestructible and unchanging.
And whenever something creates in you a sense that is otherwise,
Then you can use meditation to remind yourself.
You can use meditation to check again.
Are you aware?
Are you alive?
And is this living,
Aware presence changed or is it the same knowing presence?
