Two types of meditation

The term Meditation is widely used, but it can actually refer to very different things, which lead and serve different goals. The two ways I prescribe meditation are:

1. As a laboratory environment

where you retract from your usual activity and bring focus to whichever spiritual process and exercise you perform. This can be used for the practices prescribed in this book for awakening, such as disidentification, embodying your Pure Identity and connect to the Underlying Silence. Meditation doesn’t bring about the awakening, but it is a highly supportive environment to cultivate it as external stimulations are suspended. Other applications in this context could be for grounding your energy, relaxing the mind, healing etc.

2. As a means to reach absence

The difference between the two applications is fundamental, even though they are perfectly congruent. It is important however to understand the dereference so you could set the correct expectation and intention.

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The journey to awaken Freedom is based on an insight and a return to it. It is a journey from point A to point A. We could use the environment of meditation to abide and rest in that point A.

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The journey to Absence is a journey from point A to point B. Time is needed for it. By skillful and dedicated meditation practice we increasingly grow roots into the Unmanifested. Reaching the State of Absence doesn’t inherently imply the insight into the unreality of the mind, which is the prerequisite for the State of Freedom, but it is certainly a very potent place from which intelligence could gain that insight since you are far beyond the mind in that condition.