Beyond good and bad,
beyond right and wrong,

beyond labels of pain and pleasure,
there is simply this field

of changing phenomena, 
or what IS.

Unmediated by the evaluating mind,
unmediated by the 'I' thought.

And when we meet 
in this empty fullness,

these words 'I' and 'you' 
no longer make sense.

To try to hold on to stillness, or to 
push away the world of duality is futile,

because they are both 
inseparably this One field.

Form is exactly emptiness, 
emptiness is exactly form.

To try to comprehend this with the limited
mind, is the greatest of mistakes.

Let the mind be a 'don't know mind'.

When this filter is dropped, 
we experience the field directly.

Let the Mind relax and settle itself.

Don't resist the mind, but yet 
don't get caught in the mind.

Whatever you try to hold, 
slips out of your grasp.

And whatever you resist persists.

Therefore or to come to stillness,
let go into the moving stream.

Then both stillness 
and movement disappear.

Meditation is not the path 
to liberation, it IS liberation.

True meditation is the dropping
of the doer, dropping of the meditator

and simply abiding 
in direct presence.

It is being here now. In a way that
is not mediated by the 'I' thought.

The ego or the 'I' thought is 
simply resistance to what is.

To meditate is to let go, 
or surrender that resisting ego,

burning up all unconscious patterns
within the conditioned self.

This form of meditation 
is not separate from your life.

True meditation is coming into 
direct experience with life itself.

It IS life.

We invite you to join
the Awaken the World Community

every morning for 
sitting in silent presence.

Whether you are new to meditation
or you've been around for a while,

you're welcome come to join us
in this place of silence and stillness.

If you would like guided meditations,
or instructions to get established

in meditation, please check out the
many resources at awakentheworld.com

You'll find guided meditations, 
weekly and monthly events

to support you in your practice,

and you'll find daily morning 
meditation times in various time zones.

For those called to awaken to their 
true nature, the 7 day 'I Am Retreat'

is an online intensive, designed
to create the conditions for Samadhi.

See you in the Stillness.