3 Crucial Steps for Seekers: How to Transform from Seeking to Finding in Meditation

Meditation, often seen as a journey outward, is actually an expedition inward.

It's not about acquiring new insights or transcending to higher planes; it's about unearthing the truth that's already there, within us. This isn't your typical, run-of-the-mill meditation guide.

It's a wake-up call to stop seeking and start finding.

Step 1: Question Your Beliefs

The first step in this inner journey is to confront your deepest beliefs head-on.

Ask yourself, what do you believe? Write them down. The act of writing crystallizes thoughts, making them tangible.

Then, meditate on them. Here's the twist: Don't seek answers. Instead, question the very foundation of these beliefs. Why do they exist? Are they your truths, or inherited illusions? This process is like peeling an onion, layer by layer, exposing the core of your true self - or rather, the lack thereof.

After each meditation session, jot down how your perception of these beliefs shifts. It's not about changing the beliefs…

…but understanding their impermanence and your attachment to them.

Step 2: Dissolve the Ego

The next step is confronting the ego.

Ego is the architect of our illusions, the storyteller that weaves the narrative of 'I', 'me', and 'mine'.

Meditation here is used as a tool to dissolve this ego. Each breath, each moment of stillness, is a step toward realizing that the ego is just another belief, another layer of the onion. Imagine the ego as a castle made of sand. Each wave of awareness washes away a part of this castle, revealing the vast, open beach…

…your true, boundless self.

Step 3: Embrace the Nothingness

Finally, embrace the nothingness.

This sounds paradoxical, but in the absence of ego, beliefs, and the constant search for something 'more', what remains is a profound nothingness.

This is not a void of despair, but a space of infinite possibilities, of peace and freedom. Here, you're not an individual experiencing the universe; you are the universe experiencing itself. Consider the legend of Buddha. Under the Bodhi tree, he didn't find enlightenment by gaining something new. Instead, he shed layers of illusion, embracing the reality of 'no-self'.

In this nothingness, he found everything.

The End is Just the Beginning

This journey of introspection and ego dissolution isn't for the faint-hearted.

It's a radical venture, but remember, the end of seeking is the beginning of true finding. When you stop looking outside and start exploring within, you can by grace realize that you're not a drop in the ocean, but the entire ocean in a drop. Start today. Question a belief, observe your ego, sit in the silence of your being.

The path from seeker to finder is not paved with more; it's cleared by less. Less ego, less belief, less you.

Welcome to the journey of true finding.