No—meditation is not a belief.
A belief simply means: you don’t know, but you believe anyway.
My whole effort is to help you never to believe in anything unless you directly know it. Once you know something, belief becomes irrelevant. Belief is a substitute for truth. I aim to destroy all belief systems—and I offer you no substitutes in their place. That’s why understanding this path isn’t easy.
Beliefs are like colored glasses. They don’t let you see reality as it is; they tint the entire world in their shade. A person who believes sees through these lenses—whether they are religious, political, or personal. But reality is not red or green or blue—it simply is. To see it, you must put down your glasses. You must look without filters, without prior ideas or conclusions.
That is what meditation truly is: a direct contact with reality, without any mind in between.
The State of Not-Knowing
A true seeker begins with not-knowing—what the mystic Dionysius called agnosia. Socrates, at the peak of wisdom, declared: “I know only one thing: that I know nothing.”
This state of humility, openness, and wonder is the beginning of meditation.
In the East, we call this state “no-mind.”
Meditation is not a belief, not a thought, not a desire, not even an understanding—it is the absence of all these. It is a deep silence. When the mind is no longer there to distort, filter, or project, only then does truth reveal itself.
The seeker must drop the mind completely. That is the one and only requirement.
What Is the Mind?
The mind is your past—memories, knowledge, experiences, regrets.
And the mind is also your future—hopes, fears, projections, fantasies.
We plan our future using pieces of the past—choosing the joyful moments and trying to avoid the painful ones. But the future becomes just a refined repetition of the past, dressed in new clothes.
This is why you can never create a future filled only with joy—because the joy you experienced in the past was always tied to suffering. The dark night brings the stars; you cannot have the stars without the darkness.
Pleasure and pain, ecstasy and agony—they come together. You cannot separate them. Your desire to hold on to one and escape the other is bound to fail. The future becomes just a replay of what has already been.
Drop the Mind, Enter the Now
So what does it mean to meditate?
It means: drop the mind. Drop the past. And with the past, the future also disappears—because the future is nothing but the mind’s extension.
And when both past and future fall away, you are left with only one thing: the present.
This moment. The now.
This now is the only reality. The past is no more. The future is not yet.
Only the now is.
Meditation is the art of melting into the now.
No belief, no dogma, no scriptures—just pure presence.
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