The best meditation method

[iamthat]

Originally Posted by Unseeking Seeker

About ‘techniques’, at the risk of being singled out as the nerd in the herd, I’d say that all practices imply an ego (identity) doing and therefore, by pursuing that programmed activity, we remain in a hypnotic trance orchestrated by the ego, which we ourselves feed by taking charge, as it were.

Who is the entity seeking attainment?

The meditation ‘practices’ are steps ... interim steps, until meditation becomes an ever present flowing orientation, just like our breath ... which we don’t breathe ... we are being breathed. The same applies to the energy path, chakras, kundalini, consciousness expansion into the void etc.

Originally Posted by JustASimpleGuy

But yes, there's practice and being and the techniques, if exercised properly and diligently, should lead from one to the other.

Much has been written about this question of practices vs presence. Until presence becomes a choiceless state there is still an ego trying to be present which is just another practice and a form of seeking attainment.

When presence is a choiceless state we can still do practices simply for the enjoyment of doing them.

Peace