Meditation Is a Metaphor for Enlightenment

When sitting in meditation, it is important to be still and not to move. Relax as much as possible. Be at ease and free from tension but at the same time be alert. Do not concentrate on any particular point, allow your attention to become vast, wide and deep.
Not moving is a metaphor for the enlightened state. One who has realized the goal of Liberation is one who never moves, never strays. Even though they may appear to walk and talk, to respond to life just like everybody else, inwardly they never move. That is why it's important to be still, to be completely still.
Profound relaxation and freedom from existential tension is the foundation for extraordinary transformation. Deep relaxation is not simply a pleasant state to be attained, but is the very ground of Enlightenment.

It doesn't matter if thoughts come and go. It doesn't matter if feelings come and go, and it doesn't even matter if ecstasy comes and goes. The only thing that matters is not moving, remaining completely at ease and being fully awake.
Some people say that when we meditate, we shouldn't move physically. Others say that when we meditate our mind shouldn't wander. But the not moving I'm speaking about is deeper than that. It means never straying from our true nature.

Sooner or later after entering the path, we will have the liberating experience of wanting nothing and needing nothing. That is when we discover what our true nature is all about. That is when we fall deep within the Self. Like falling into the mouth of a volcano, down and down and down we go, sinking so deep that we even forget about the falling. When this happens, there is deep contentment because one recognizes that there is absolutely nothing missing.

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