On Meditation

There are three key points during meditation practice: the relaxing breath, the inborn Awareness, and the Buddha Nature (the True Mind). The practice must be regular and rigorous, meaning with discipline, and anywhere, anytime, not only during one sitting meditation session. It is no use trying to stop the flow of arising thoughts from consciousnessness. So why bother trying to stop it? But the practitioner has to be alert and aware of any arising thought, in order to use the breath as a focus point to bring him-/herself back to the state of calmness. S/he needs to maintain that state of calmness as long as possible, until another thought arises. Right at that moment the only thing the practitioner has to do is to recognize the disturbance caused by the arising thought, only to let it go, and focus on the breath again. That's all. Maintaining, or actually living in, the state of calmness between two disturbances or among disturbances, is the first step leading to the development of Insight, nurturing the True Mind or the Buddha Nature. The True Mind is always there, within and without. It has no space-time limits, no rigid form; therefore, its capacity and capability are extremely powerful. It is the source of all entities in universes. The above lines come from the writer's own meditation experiences.