Natural (Sahaja) Meditation

You don't meditate. You allow meditation to happen.

Natural Meditation is simply resting as effortless, choiceless, silent awareness.

Simply means natural meditation is not difficult or complex. It is a natural, effortless way of being.

Resting means you are not up to something. You are not attempting to do, change, or accomplish anything. You are simply resting, allowing everything to be as it is.

Effortless means you are not trying to make anything happen. You accept and welcome everything as it is, including your thoughts, feelings, and experiences.

Choiceless means you don’t have to choose one thought, feeling, or experience over another, nor think or figure anything out.

Silent means resting as the silence that everything arises out of and returns to. Silence is the source of all there is. Silence is what is. You are this silence.

Awareness is This that allows everything to be. Awareness is all-inclusive. It is the ultimate context of all and everything. You are this effortless awareness. This is what is true under all circumstances. Even if you argue that there are times you are not aware, such as in deep sleep, how do you know? You are aware that you were not conscious while sleeping. Simply rest as this primordial awareness, aware of itself.

When meditating, it is helpful to sit in a comfortable, upright position, with spine, neck, and head in alignment.

Sometimes gentle awareness of the natural mantra of your breath, HAMSA, helps you relax into meditation. HAMSA means the spontaneous and all-inclusive awareness of I AM THAT.

Notice that you don’t really breathe. Breathing happens by itself. You are being breathed. Without any effort at all, your breath naturally flows in and flows out like a gentle ocean wave. Relax into feeling yourself being breathed. Don’t make an effort to concentrate on your breath, just let your awareness gently surf the natural flow of your breath. 

The breath flows in with the soft sound of HAHHM and flows out with the soft sound of SAAH. Ham with the inhalation, Sa with the exhalation.

Feel your breath, mantra, and awareness merge together into one beautiful, flowing, living wave of energy. This wave naturally and effortlessly awakens your spiritual power. As this meditative power unfolds, you no longer make an effort to meditate, as meditation now happens by itself. As you feel your breath breathing you, your body/mind system will naturally relax and flow into natural meditation. Just as a pole vaulter has to let go of the pole to go over the top of the bar, so you now let go of all methods and techniques as you flow into natural, effortless meditation. You don't meditate. You allow meditation to happen. You are being meditated. 

At the meditation programs we often begin and end meditation by chanting OM three times. Chanting OM creates a very powerful and positive resonance that brings us all into harmony and balance with each other.

After the first set of OMs, we often do The Breath of Fire, which is relaxed but rapid abdominal breathing, about three breaths per second. The Breath of Fire charges the body/mind system with the radiant life force and creates a powerful, positive energetic field for meditation.

Focus at the navel point. As you exhale, the navel goes in towards the spine. As you inhale, the abdomen expands. In and out, in and out, in and out. Keep the whole body relaxed. After you finish the Breath of Fire, just relax into the one breath breathing you. Ham-sa. 

AND THEN SIMPLY REST AS EFFORTLESS, CHOICELESS, SILENT AWARENESS.

YOU ARE THAT.

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