There comes a time when we decide to drop all personal effort in our search for Truth within ourselves. We reach a point where we have tried and tried and tried to have Spirit flood our experience and harmonize our life and affairs, yet we’ve had little or only spasmodic success. Maybe we’ve been trying for months, years, or even decades and although SOME harmony and prosperity has appeared it is not anywhere near ENOUGH to transform our whole experience and leave us free from the shackles that stubbornly bind us to one form of limitation or another.

Then we realise: Here I am trying to realise Truth MYSELF. All these months, years or decades I have thought that it is MY job to bring a realisation of Spirit to my life. So I have sat for hundreds or thousands of hours TRYING TO CRACK THIS MYSTERY CALLED TRUTH assuming that my dedicated effort will bring Its fruitage to me.

Ah, that’s where we’ve gone wrong. But strangely enough, all the effort we’ve made until now has been a necessary phase of the awakening of consciousness to the point we’ve reached now: COMPLETE SURRENDER OF THE PERSONAL SENSE OF SELF TO THE INFINITE, ONE SELF.

Now our mode of awareness and meditation changes completely. Now we sit down for a meditation and instantly realise within ourselves that I CAN DO NOTHING MYSELF. It is no use ME trying to ‘bring’ the awareness of Spirit to myself by churning over dozens of statements of Truth in my mind. That practice was for yesterday but we’re going to drop it now.

Now, we simply SURRENDER all effort and RELY COMPLETELY on SPIRIT to do the awakening in our consciousness. We simply sit in silence, empty in mind, not ‘working’ the mind at all, resting it, and creating of it an EMPTY, CLEAN ‘HOUSE’ FOR SPIRIT TO INHABIT. What a relief! What a sense of release of all burden and need for effort in the realisation that I AM SPIRIT, AND SPIRIT NEEDS NO HELP FROM ME, AND INDEED IS COMPLETELY UNTOUCHED BY MY GRINDING EFFORT!

Simply sit and receive. That’s all. Sit in attentive expectancy of the Spirit that you are to make ITSELF known to your awareness in ITS own way which, remember, is infinite all-knowing Mind, bliss, harmony, supply, companionship, love, happiness, joy, pleasure, and limitless fulfilment. So do not think a thing. And certainly do not wish for Spirit to ‘fix’ a problem in your experience! Remember, it is only our finite mind that sees the problem and cannot solve it. Spirit sees no problem BECAUSE SPIRIT HAS NO PROBLEM and, in your pure state - WHEN YOUR MIND IS SILENT, EMPTY AND RECEPTIVE - you ARE that Spirit in full (or greater) awareness.

Only when the mind is not churning away can Spirit inhabit it. Even the churning of statements of Truth in mind block the ACTUAL awareness of the presence of Spirit from your consciousness because ANY activity of mind is NOT an activity of Spirit. Spirit is SILENCE and therefore ONLY IN THE SILENT, EMPTY, RECEPTIVE MIND can Spirit become your vibrant awareness and tangible bliss.

Let me give you an example that will make this highest form of meditation crystal clear. Imagine you were a sunbeam and you had lived your entire life until now assuming that YOU had to create your own light and heat, and that your personal effort had the effect of blocking the SUN’S infinite light and heat from your experience. You can quickly see that your life would be dark and cold.

Then you wake up to the truth of your being. Although you are an individual sunbeam, that individuality is the infinite SUN expressing ITSELF AS YOU. Your entire existence, your entire being, is infinite individuality, NOT finite (personal) individuality.

You realise that ALL you have to do to EXPERIENCE the infinity of fulfilment you crave for IS SIT IN SILENT RECEPTIVITY thereby LETTING the SUN freely pour ITS light and heat into, as, and through that point called you.

You can see that YOU must make no effort, other than the effort of SITTING IN PURE OPENNESS, PURE RECEPTIVITY allowing the SUN to BE YOU in all its fullness. And how ‘quickly’ will you experience that fullness? Instantaneously. Why? Because the fullness of the sun IS ALREADY WHERE YOU ARE but YOU have been blocking it from your individual experience through a false effort of personal sense.

This EXACTLY describes the method which is the highest form of meditation discovered and practiced by the greatest ‘healers’ of all time. It is a COMPLETE SILENCING of the mind, a COMPLETE DROPPING of all personal sense and personal desire to solve this or that, or prosper this or the other, or ‘get’ this thing or that thing. It is the art of SITTING WITH A SILENT, OPEN, ATTENTIVE, RECEPTIVE mind and then, with a little patience, LETTING SPIRIT BE SPIRIT FOR, AS, AND THROUGH YOU.

Simply WAIT PEACEFULLY AND PATIENTLY for the FEELING of Spirit HAPPENING within you. You’ll feel It as peace, or a sense of release from what has been concerning you, or a warmth or heat welling up from within you, or a bliss, or euphoria, or a beautiful understanding (awareness) about something of Spirit that you have wanted to understand.

When you have felt this ‘happening’ within you can get up and get on with your day in the absolute knowledge that the Spirit you FELT WITHIN will now quickly appear in your tangible sense-world of HARMONIOUS FORM as the need or desire fulfilled. Never, never, NEVER look for the form; keep your awareness gently permeated in Spirit, but have an inner absolute assurance that the Spirit FELT WITHIN ALWAYS… infallibly… appears to the mind-world AS the need fulfilled, and abundantly so.