The Final Letting Go

Toward the end of any longer meditation, when the body is settled and the breath is quiet, watch for a particular moment. The last small effort of holding the practice softens. Expectation, control, even the wish to meditate well, all let go at the same time. The mind sits down. The body sits down. Awareness is simply present, unmoving and unforced. Do not chase this moment. Just recognise it when it arrives, and stay there as long as it stays. Everything earlier in the practice was preparing the chair. This moment is finally sitting in it.