"...the non-arising of ego activity leaves the mind open for the direct or intuitional apprehension..." - WWW
Thus, the misguided quest of the novice meditator to silence his mind, to "attain" enlightenment, which is like trying to stop the wind with a screen door. Meditation is not laying down sandbags to staunch the flood of thought; it is laying down, period, and allowing the wind to blow and thoughts to flow and whatever happens to happen. Thoughts are merely illusory products of an illusory ego, shadows of a shadow, not who or what we really are. Did all that tumult in your dreams last night leave a single mark when you opened your eyes this morning? Resting in "am," in consciousness without content, will of itself unfold into true vision of reality. We can facilitate these conditions. Just as a tropical wave over warm seas unfolds into a hurricane, enlightenment is "an effect of in-seeing," as WWW says. It dawns when we nurture conditions propitious for awakening.
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