The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping.
The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself.
And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous "wisdom of egolessness."
When you live in the wisdom home, you'll no longer find a barrier between "I" and "you," "this" and "that," "inside" and "outside;" you'll have come, finally, to your true home, the state of non-duality.
(p. 77)
When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away.
You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded.
And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.
(p. 53)
{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind;
I don't question or doubt whether I am in the "correct" state or not.
There is no effort, only rich understanding, wakefulness, and unshakable certainty.
When I am in the nature of mind, the ordinary mind is no longer there.
There is no need to sustain or confirm a sense of being: I simply am.
(p. 63)
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