What is Meditation?
Witnessing is the spirit of meditation
Meditation is an adventure, an adventure into the unknown, the greatest adventure the human mind can take. Meditation is just to be, not doing anything – no action, no thought, no emotion. You just are and it is a sheer delight. From where does this delight come when you are not doing anything? It comes from nowhere, or it comes from everywhere. It is uncaused, because existence is made of the stuff called joy.
When you are not doing anything at all – bodily, mentally, on no level – when all activity has ceased and you simply are, just being, that’s what meditation is.
Once you have become aware of the way your being can remain undisturbed, then slowly you can start doing things, keeping alert that your being is not stirred. That is the second part of meditation – first, learning how just to be, and then learning little actions: cleaning the floor, taking a shower, but keeping yourself centered. Then you can do complicated things.
So meditation is not against action. It is not that you have to escape from life. It simply teaches you a new way of life: you become the center of the cyclone.
You are not the doer, you are the watcher.
That’s the whole secret of meditation is that you become the watcher.
Watching is meditation. What you watch is irrelevant. You can watch the trees, you can watch the river, you can watch the clouds, you can watch children playing around. Watching is meditation. What you watch is not the point; the object is not the point.
The quality of observation, the quality of being aware and alert – that’s what meditation is. Remember one thing: meditation means awareness.
The first step in awareness is to be very watchful of your body. Slowly slowly one becomes alert about each gesture, each movement.
Then start becoming aware of your thoughts; the same has to be done with thoughts. They are more subtle than the body and of course, more dangerous too.
And the miracle of awareness is that you need not do anything except just become aware. The very phenomenon of watching it changes it. Slowly slowly the madman disappears, slowly slowly the thoughts start falling into a certain pattern; their chaos is no more, they become more of a cosmos. And then again, a deeper peace prevails.
That is the subtlest layer and the most difficult, but if you can be aware of the thoughts then it is just one step more. A little more intense awareness is needed and you start reflecting your moods, your emotions, your feelings. Once you are aware of all these three they all become joined into one phenomenon.
And the fourth is the ultimate awareness that makes one awakened. One becomes aware of one’s awareness – that is the fourth. That makes a Buddha, the awakened. And only in that awakening does one come to know what bliss is.
The important thing is that you are watchful, that you have not forgotten to watch, that you are
watching …watching …watching.
You have come home.
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