"You cannot do meditation.
Meditation happens.  

That does not mean
you grab a beer,
put your feet up,
and wait for meditation to happen.  

You have to learn to be aware
and this requires practice.    

You can use whatever technique
or method that works for you.  

But it is all
to get you to the zero point,
the point of inaction.  

The point
where you have taken your hands
off the wheel completely
and allow meditation to take over.  

You can recognize
this state of absolute stillness;

Where there is a complete
absence of ego
and subsequently
a complete absence of stress.  

And through recognition
and practice,
allow it to become your normal state.  

This is where meditation happens.
It is where Shakti takes over
and does what it needs to do.

There is nothing for you to do
beyond this point,
it is all taken care of.  

But as long as you think
you are doing meditation,
Shakti has to sit in the back seat,
until you are tired enough
or willing enough
to get out of the way
and allow meditation to happen.  

So it is not that you do meditation,
but you are doing so much already
you have to practice to get to inaction.  

You have to practice
until you get to the point
where awareness and surrender
are one and the same.  

It is too subtle
to comprehend with the mind,
only by experience
do you learn inaction,  

do you learn
how to get the heck out of the way
and allow unconditional peace
to take over.


Blessings,


Kip"



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"What can be said
when you are blissful.  

You cannot talk about bliss
when you are blissful.  
It is all just a happening.
Unserious and unimportant.  

All of the ideas, 
opinions and knowledge
of spirituality
keep you separate from bliss.  

Because there has to be a you
to have the knowledge and opinions.  
There has to be someone important there,
that knows something important
that is going somewhere important.  

But where are you ever going?
Where are you leaving to go?  

There is only ever here.  

If there is something else
besides here
then it is the resistance to here
the avoidance of here.  

This illusion of an important one
that is going somewhere
in it's own idea of a future
just to try and escape this moment.  

But if you give up trying
to leave this moment
and are present in what is,
there is no important one.  
It is all of the present.  

There is nothing but the present.  

One life radiating without cause.  

You find yourself smiling
on the inside
and there is no reason for it.  

There are no words
or opinions or revelations,
there is just bliss.    

Blessings,  


Kip"


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This one is a bit long & specific,
but should bring clarity to a lot questions
that have come in lately.    

"Meditation is a combination
of both witnessing
what is happening in the moment
(as opposed to identifying
with what is happening)  

and surrendering
to what is here
(as opposed to trying to control 
or resist your experience.)  

So you want to allow
your experience
in this moment
to be as it is
but without identifying with it.  

You want to experience
this moment as sensation
without trying to define it, describe it, judge it,
or say 'this is me.'  

The main obstacle in meditation
is the mind.  

Thoughts arise And the tendency is
to identify with the thoughts,
to become involved with the thinking.  

To think you are the thinker
and that the thinking is important.  

And then one thought
leads to another
and before you know it,
meditation time is up.  

Many will spend
their entire meditation
simply enjoying a certain relaxation
while being distracted and consumed
by the thoughts.  

This is normal.
And there is a certain amount
of spiritual growth that comes
from just enjoying the peace that is there.  

But true meditation means
to let go of this tendency
of being distracted by your thinking.  

To little by little, have moments
where you are not distracted
by your thinking
but are present
with what is here beyond thinking.  

So you want to surrender
to allow the thoughts & emotions to arise,  
because if you try and stop them,
or control them,
you will increase your stress.  

You want to surrender
so that you can allow yourself
to experience what is here
beyond the thinking.  

Yet at the same time,
you want to witness the thoughts arising,
so that you do not become lazy
and habitually get lost in your thinking.  

You want to be completely focused
in the moment to see the thought arising
and instantly let it go.  

So there is this balance
that is always the aim:
witnessing and surrender
both at once.  

At first,
these two seem to be opposites,
but through practice you realize
witnessing and surrender
are one & the same.  

When you reach this point
life will become very blissful.  

Eventually,
both aspects are transcended
into a state of perfect stillness
where only pure formless consciousness remains.  

This is the beginning of Samadhi,
where the personal 'I has vanished
and meditation happens effortlessly.    


Blessings,    


Kip"


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"If you ever watch
a documentary on wild animals,
it will become very clear
that life is all about survival.

You are either eating another
or doing your best
not to be eaten yourself.

In the wild animal kingdom,
it is those that live in extreme separation,
which survive the longest.

If you do not live in fear
you will be eaten.
If you have any feeling for the one
that is your dinner,
you will starve.

It is the biggest and strongest
that survive and earn the right to reproduce.

This is the function of the ego,
to look out for the survival
of the individual.

As human beings,
we have pretty much beat this system
and separated ourselves from this natural cycle.

Regardless of judgement
most of us find ourselves in a unique position
where we are safe enough
that we can go beyond
instinctual separation.

Still the ego
is all about survival
through dominating everything
outside of yourself.

The ego tendency is to
be bigger, tougher and better looking,
richer and more successful,
intellectually superior,
to be the one that judges
not the one that is judged,
to dominate others
to be the most popular.

To be right.

All of these things
are the egos instinctual tendency
to survive.


Yet meditation
and spiritual life
means to do the opposite.

You still look both ways
before you cross the street,
but it is when you stop
trying to dominate others
and submit to life,
you grow in awareness
and move closer to experiencing
unity with the whole.

It is in accepting all of these things
in our lives that we resist
where we actually
have the greatest opportunity
to be free of the ego
and attain unconditional peace.

When you truly surrender
and experience hurt, loneliness,
rejection, humility, confusion,
weakness, vulnerability,

When you accept that
you cannot understand life
and all of it's mysteries
yet you allow it to be as it is

that you find freedom
from separation
and dissolve into
unconditional peace.

You experience yourself
as part of the whole of life
rather than an ego
separate from it.

You are nourished by the whole
as love itself, peace itself
and perfect contentment.

As long as you try
and dominate life,
you will be separate from it.

As soon as you submit to life
as it is in this moment,

you live as life itself
and that is bliss.

This is the secret
to being free from the ego.

Blessings,


Kip"


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