A revolution
Spiritual theater must end.
Spiritual practice shall exist to reconnect with the soul, only. Never to confuse, distract, delay, self-inflate, ensnare, control.
To that end...
Sustainable
Meditation should be sustainable.
A spiritual practice that employs effort, rigidity, or conforming to exaggerated promises is not a viable practice for life. Same for boring, difficult, or tedious.
Practical
The practice of meditation should be practical and forgiving to be sustainable.
Meditation is not about achieving a lofty state of “enlightenment” or “purity”. These are entirely human-invented concepts and are meaningless with regards to the experience of the soul.
Conversely, as the soul is always present, its inner experience does not require “purification” any more than being innocent with the process and gentle towards oneself.
Joyful
Meditation should bring you to your soul, the source of joy. As such, meditation should be enjoyable.
Similarly, when learning meditation, it should not be presented in a serious, self-important manner, as the soul is not serious by nature.
Healthy
Meditation should be healthy in every way.
For example, it should not involve any kind of rigid posture, nor straining of mind, nor adopting foreign beliefs, because there is no need to force oneself to return to the soul.
Nor should it allow unhealthy relationships between the student and teacher. Since the soul is totally aware, it does not follow that the student must set aside discernment in order to grow.
Full
The soul is fullness by nature—not nothingness, not elusive, not held in reserve for special people with special vows.
Meditation therefore should not deny worldly comfort nor be about deprivation of one’s senses beyond closing ones eyes to go inward.
Immediate
Meditation should not have to wait to be practiced—it should be available right now, no matter what.
Since the soul is ever-present, there is no need for a special time, place, or set of conditions to reconnect with it. Only depth of experience is affected by particulars.
Unlimited
Meditation should not limit the student.
The practice should inherently take one as far and as deep as one wants to go, without conditions, without a gauntlet of upgrades.
Also, as the nature of the soul is not limited, meditation should not be constrained by focusing on finite objects, such as the breath, the body, energies, or objects in the environment. These limit consciousness.
Normal
Meditation should be presented in a normal manner.
Like the way that any other worldly skill is presented, whether it be dance, flight, or chef training.
This is in contrast to spiritual practices cultivating specialness in the teacher, the student, and the process.
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Uncomplicated
Meditation should not use specialized language to be conveyed.
There is no need to make returning to the soul complicated, as the soul is not complicated.
Complexity is distraction, and has nothing to do with the simplicity of the soul.
Unburdened
Meditation should only guarantee a claim to two things—a return to a direct experience of the soul, and ultimately identification with the soul.
Any other claims such as healing, moving energies, or manipulating the universe are beside the point. Those dilute the simplicity of the soul, taking away from the total transformative power already latent in these two claims.
Reliable
Meditation should have a trustworthiness—its performance towards its claims are repeatable: you do something and you get a result.
This is so because the soul is inseparable from you. It is the largest part of who you are, more fundamental to you than your body’s cells or the thoughts in your mind.
Therefore to experience the soul, there is no need for superstitious acts, nor special behaviors, nor conditional promises.
Clean
Experience of the soul is inherently obvious.
It should not be predicated on tradition, ritual, philosophy, or good behavior.
Also, meditation training should not become entangled with phenomena of the soul, of which there are endless paths and claims to explore.
These are not wrong, but to keep the teaching clean, they must be disclosed as being separate from meditation’s simple claims.
Portable
Meditation should be able to be practiced with everything you were born with.
Experience of the soul should not be limited to eyes closed, quiet areas, sitting on a cushion, with a particular app, listening to music, taking drugs, nor in a particular place, setting, or group.
Such limitations reinforce a false dependency, and deny that you can have the experience of your soul right now.
Accommodating
Meditation should fit to you as you are, now, meeting you where you are at.
No matter the medical condition, the physical or emotional state, you should not have to change yourself into a “ready state” for meditation.
Empowering
Meditation must enable the student to be independent from the teacher.
It should be no different than learning any other skill, where lifelong dependency upon the teacher is a sign of a clingy, failed teacher.
The claim of authority for a lifetime can only come from going inward to the domain of the soul, never outward towards an external personality.
Ethical
Because there will be those who will ignore these demands and insist on the “way it has been done before”, meditation must be presented in an ethical way from teacher to student.
While returning to the soul is often counter-intuitive and non-obvious to a distracted mind, it does not require abuse, manipulation, control, or bondage.
The “way it has been done before” has not brought forth the soul, and now it must end.