Original Stillness

Original stillness:

my mantra is beautiful, a vibrational quality of the moment I came into physical existence, and my only role is to gently think it as I'm easily, gently, carried to my original stillness. That sums up my meditation practice each sitting, no effort nor concentration involved, and with no concern for mindfulness either as the simple return to the mantra should my attention wanders is a mindful act. Indeed, the act of thinking the mantra itself is the essence of mindfulness, being absorbed within its vibration, nothing falling outside its perimeters within the instant that I think it - 

each silent utterance a meditation of its own. 

completely so. 

I could say that this is a beautiful, meaningful experience, but only after I emerge from original stillness, the silent gap between every thought that passes. The true is, returning to the mantra leads me to a point beyond the nature of experience, as any identity of an experiencer drops away and all there is the vibration of the mantra until a subtle shift to silence...

with nothing to be experienced.

just the pure joy of existence, 

unclaimed 

by anyone at all. 

it's the original stillness of simply being. 

~

Peace, Eric