A True Quiet

A true quiet: 

what we want to do is hold the mantra lightly, loosely through the mind, simply thinking it and then letting go, not at all concerned for its return. Our meditation isn't based on concentration, clinging to breath or a Sanskrit world, we think the mantra, gently and with least effort given, allowing it as a faint impression playing through the mind. That's what we return to, we just keep coming back to the mantra, the quality of its sound, with its vibration carrying us deeply below the surface of the mind, a true quiet found. 

and really, that's what's always present, a true quiet between each thought, existing beneath our every impulse and desire, a silent field of pure awareness. Our mantra takes us to the primordial source where thoughts are born, their very first ripple of appearance before they're fully formed as words. At this depth we can watch them being born, coming into existence and then bubbling to the surface, thoughts now fully formed. This is our place of freedom, we're beyond the realm of choice, we're a witness here, simply presence, an allowingness for thoughts to easily come and go.

just the notion of who we think we are.

and eventually, even as witness we disappears. 

another thought let go. 

this isn't a place we reach, it's not what we strive for, and no amount of effort could ever bring us here - we hold the mantra lightly, thinking it and then an easy letting go. The role of the mind it to think, and so we let it do its job, thinking the mantra and whatever other thoughts appear. There are no distractions, we're never off track, it's all the process of meditation, every part of it, wandering mind and all. We just return to the mantra as it appears, remembering it,thinking it again, and at no point chastising ourselves for following other lines of thought through our imagination. It's how meditation happens. 

a true quiet exists within us, 

already.

our every thought appears from there.

what we do is think the mantra lightly, loosely, relying only on its vibrations.

and this quiet place is found. 

~

Peace, Eric