I have observed that many people treat meditation as an activity - one of the many that they make time for!
Meditation is the art of living wisely - enjoying oneself living spontaneously without any sense of me, of identification with a personal history or projected future self.
Living spontaneously, unconditionally free in the present, requires that no conditions have to be met, such as: special places, special times, special visualizations, special prayers, special cushions, special postures, special teacher, special diet, special clothes, special initiations, special rules of conduct.
Once, after a particularly poignant meeting with a group of people - whereupon everyone was drawn naturally into spontaneous quietude - one person asked if we could all sit down to meditate, having been so moved by the prior stillness. The contrast was self evident for everyone present. Meditation is not something that you "do." It is what occurs spontaneously when you dissappear as the meditator.
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