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April 11, 2023

The six foundations of the Natural State are:

In the natural state the meditator is connecting with something beyond the realm of the mind. Zen master Bankei called it the Unborn Mind because it is never born or created; it's eternally present. Effortless meditation is resting within a perfection and wholeness that is already present, it is not created through meditation practice it is discovered.

1) No Grasping

Non-grasping means you cannot grasp or comprehend the natural state of meditation with concepts. Any attempt to grasp the natural state with your thinking mind will not only fail it will become a big obstacle to resting in the natural state. When your mind says “I’ve got it” it hasn’t. What it boils down to is best described in the first line of Tao Te Ching “the Tao that can be named, is not the real Tao”.

2) Stillness

Stillness is a great pointing out instruction and one of the few direct methods. The only thing to do in the natural state of meditation is to sit still. Of course this is not even neccesary but for the sake of 'practicing' this type of meditation sitting still is extremely useful and a cornerstone of meditation training

3)Non-Fabrication

This is an important point that can quickly connect you with the natural state of meditation. It’s important because it’s easy to think that meditation creates the natural state but the truth is meditation helps to discover the natural state not create it or fabricate it through a technique. That's why it's called non-meditation it's not a technique that produces a result.

4) Non-Resistance

Along with not trying to create any experience during the natural state of meditation you also don’t have to resist anything either. This is a powerful method to let go of stress and come into alignment with what it. Eckhart Tolle goes so far as to say “Non-resistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.”

5) Simplicity

Simplicity is not stupid it’s humble. Simplicity isn’t avoiding problems it’s approaching life with a gentleness and openness that is well equipped to enable our innate intelligence to shine forth.

Great scientists like Einstein have admitted that some of his greatest break-throughs in science were not while he was obsessively thinking about a problem but instead came when he was relaxed and not thinking about anything at all .

6) Self-Luminous Awareness

Self awareness is the key ingredient and is often overlooked in meditation instructions. I'm talking about the self-radiance of non-dual awareness because it’s not one thing looking at another it’s simply the source of light illuminating itself.

Self-luminous awareness is effortless. It’s not like you turn the light on in meditation it’s actually always shining you simply stop casting shadows with your mind and allow the light to shine on all aspects of experience. That’s what light does.

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