What is Meditation?

To be clear from the start, Meditation is beyond words and thus cannot be described in its truest sense.

Consider the words of Lao Tzu from the ‘Dao de Jing’:

The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao;
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth;
The named is the mother of all things.

So, if one cannot describe Meditation, why this article and attempt to do so?

Good question.

It is trickery of sorts, but one that stems from deep love for you.

For it is an invitation for you, to see the moonlight and to hear the birds sing, until you become the moon itself and the very song of the birds too.

And finally, it is a foolish attempt on my part, to point to a way beyond the illusion of fragmentation. For when we experience ourselves as separate from reality, we descend into a world of fear and suffering.

So what is Meditation?

A few years ago, a voice in a dream told me that ‘nothing will be revealed, because nothing is hidden’.

That is Meditation.

Meditation is a pathless path out of the illusion of fragmentation, one that plunges us back into the river of the oneness of reality. Where the drop of water is the ocean and the ocean is the drop of water.

It is a living experience, a state of being, a direct perception of the undivided reality, that remains unseen and unfelt by the ordinary perceptions of our fragmented selves.

It is Reality perceiving itself through itself.

Meditation is here and now. And it is all here waiting for you.