[Unseeking Seeker]

From the fulcrum of mind-body identity, mistakenly taking ourself to be only this form, what is in focus, is the ego or identity. The ego wants to expand its well being and so strives in life to do this or that, including meditation, as an activity to feel at peace.

So, meditation from the ego’s perspective generally looks at a shift into silence by employing force of concentration, maybe by breath watching, chanting a mantra, praying, attending satsangs, visualisations or trying to awaken the kundalini without knowing actually what it is.

In my view, we are so used to striving that we have forgotten how to abide in our natural state effortlessly. So, tacking this from the roots, I would suggest simply looking, feeling, watching whatever arises in our awareness but without clinging or interpreting, neither seeking nor negating. This we may term as mindfulness or emptiness. It is awareness self-aware, poised in the void, animated but doing nothing.

Slipping into this state as an orientation rather than a conscious doing, we are immersed in but not in bondage to thoughts, appearances and sensations because we assign no ownership to them, in fact, we as an entity too are not.

This is then a shift in the way of living, being, moment to moment, rather than a programmed gym-meditation activity. Or reworded, we prioritise living internally.