Here’s a question I was asked at one of my online events:

Q: Does meditation have a purpose, even after realization?

A: Meditation is something that can be enjoyable. It depends on the kind of meditation, but it’s important to use a method that remains enjoyable. When it does, meditation continues to be useful because it can be integrated into daily life. For all of us, there is an ongoing integration of Impersonal Being into the personal mode, allowing Effortless Being to predominate more and more.

With realization, all the time we once spent seeking is no longer required. Simply seeing this makes it possible to live much more of the time from Effortless Being. From there, heightened experiences of unity, euphoria, and bliss can arise. There is less exertion because we recognize that Effortless Being is our true nature, and this allows us to regulate our energetic expenditure more naturally each day.

As a result, there may be less need for sleep. Sometimes this creates more time during the night for meditation, for experiencing bliss, or for entering heightened states. Meditation is especially useful when it’s liberated from the idea that it is required for realization. At that point, it can simply be enjoyed, because meditation becomes a way of functioning directly from Effortless Being.

During the day, Effortless Being can certainly be experienced, but daily life usually involves engagement and interaction with other people. This means there is more form, or a greater variety of forms, appearing in the waking state. Meditation can therefore provide relief, real enjoyment, and even an alternative to sleep.

The ability to navigate consciousness can also develop through meditation. For example, Unity Consciousness can be cultivated in meditation. Initially, there may be a subtle sense of effort involved, but once Effortless Being is realized, experience naturally becomes more subtle and refined.

With eyes closed, the mind quiets, making it easier to experience consciousness as an infinite field or ocean within which forms appear. In meditation, this experience often becomes more pronounced. There may simply be awareness of sounds, perceptions, or thoughts arising. Meditation then feels like a still ocean, with only a few forms arising within it.

It is easier to integrate a smaller number of forms in meditation than the many forms present in the waking state. This allows us to become familiar with clarity and simplicity in an enjoyable way, while giving us space to rest in that awareness. Over time, the sense of ease and timelessness found in meditation naturally begins to carry over into the waking state as well.

If you have a question for me, I’d love to answer it. Please join me at my next online event…

With love,
David