Meditation and Awakening

Meditation and awakening:

does meditation lead to awakening? Well that’s an often and hotly debated question in certain social media circles, and as a long time meditation practitioner, a student and a teacher, as well as someone who has had a profound experience of awakening — I’m often asked to weigh in with my opinion. I seldom do. Honestly, it’s just not an issue of which I’m interested debating upon, although I’m always happy to discuss both topics at length. For me, meditation and awakening can’t be truly separated, they’re not two different things with one leading inevitably to the other, and I don’t believe that awakening has one true cause that can be pinpointed to anything for certain.

meditation is what I do.

awakening is what I am.

and the two belong together, seamlessly so.

but it might be different for you, and I’m perfectly find with that and have no need to argue otherwise, it seems there’s no sure answer that will really satisfy everyone. And we don’t need one. This all become a certain flow at some point, and again, for me at least. Every time I sit I find that I expand a little more, a surrendering occurs, or perhaps it’s better said that I more clearly notice the constant surrender already now taking place. My physiology changes with meditation, my biology, I am hardwired down to…