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The first thing to be remembered about meditation is that it is not something that can be done.
Throughout the world people have the notion that meditation means doing something. It is not a
doing, it is not an act, it is something that happens. It is not that YOU go to it; it comes to you and
penetrates you. It destroys you in one way and recreates you in another. It is something so vital and
so infinite that it cannot be a part of your doing.
Then what is to be done? You can only create the situation in which it happens. All that you can do
is to be vulnerable and open to existence from all sides.
Ordinarily we are like prisons: we are closed up within ourselves with no openings. In a way we are
dead. One can say we have become ”life-proof”: life cannot come to us. We have created barriers
and hindrances to life, because life can be dangerous, uncontrollable; it is something which is not
in our hands. We have created a closed existence for ourselves so that we can be certain and
secure, so that we can be comfortable. This closed existence is convenient, but at the same time it
is deadening. The more closed we become the less alive we are. The more open we become the
more alive we are.
Meditation is an openness to all dimensions, an openness to everything. But to be open to everything
is dangerous, to be open to everything unconditionally makes us insecure.