Many awakened people never meditated a day in their lives.
Awakened people seem to come in two varieties:
- Those who never meditated prior to awakening.
- Those who did, but later insisted meditation had nothing to do with it.
Awakened teachers describe their experiences with remarkable similarity. They say their minds stopped the thinking activity. Suddenly, the chit-chatty selves they thought they were took a back seat to Being.
When the monologue resumed, it was alien and external, like someone talking in another room. They didn’t see any reason to identify with it or believe its interpretations.
Without a personal self to identify with, Consciousness rediscovers its infinity.
Until the personal self is seen through, we’ll always think there’s a person who has to meditate (or something) to attain enlightenment.
If you’re meditating, you might find it helpful to focus directly on the “self” who’s meditating. When you try to catch it, it disappears. What’s left is who You are.