The first thing is to know what meditation is.
Ordinarily, our consciousness is too full of rubbish. But when everything has been eliminated, only pure consciousness remains: a mirror-like clarity. Meditation is a state of pure consciousness with no content.
The mind is a constant traffic: thoughts are incessantly arising and passing away, memories are popping up nonstop, worries and desires are coming and going perpetually. This is the state of no meditation. Just the opposite is meditation. Meditation is a state of no-mind, very much like a cloudless sky.
When the mind has stopped and thinking has ceased, and everything is still, that silence is meditation. In that silence, only you are. Meditation is a state of pure being-consciousness-bliss (sachchidanand).
When you are not doing anything at all, but you simply are, just being, that is meditation. Meditation is a state of absolute non-doing. It is relaxation itself.
When you are totally here and now, that immediacy, that indescribable presence, that’s what meditation is. To be simply herenow is meditation.
All meditative methods are devices, just tricks to help you take the jump into your being; they are just like jumping boards. And if you are ready, then any method will do.
