Liberation Intel: What you'll discover—how meditation becomes spiritual identity addiction, why seeking perpetuates what it claims to solve, and when dropping all techniques reveals your natural state. For longtime practitioners ready to abandon the meditation hamster wheel and recognize the LUX awareness that was never absent.
She's been meditating for 15 years. Every morning, 30 minutes. Apps, courses, retreats – she's done it all. "I still feel just as restless as on day one," she confesses to me. "What am I doing wrong?"
Nothing. She's doing everything right. That's the problem.
Modern meditation has become a spiritual hamster wheel. People spin endless circles in the name of "practice" while real transformation slips through their fingers. They collect meditation hours like loyalty points and wait for a salvation that never comes.
We need to be honest: The way most people meditate leads them away from what they're seeking.
The Great Misunderstanding
Meditation has been degraded to a technique. A method. A tool for optimizing the mind.
Sit down. Observe your breath. Let thoughts come and go. Repeat a mantra. Count to ten. Visualize light. Follow a guided meditation.
These are all activities of the mind. And here lies the irony: You're trying to calm the mind by giving it tasks.
It's like giving a hyperactive child a task and expecting them to settle down in the process. The mind becomes busier, not stiller. More concentrated on technique, not more open to being.
The Concentration Trap
Most meditation techniques are based on concentration. Focus on your breath. Concentrate on a mantra. Direct your attention to a point.
Concentration is effort. It creates tension, even when it feels relaxing. It narrows consciousness instead of expanding it.
After years of concentration-based meditation, people often develop a subtle inner rigidity. They can "focus" well, but they've forgotten how to simply be. They've become spiritual athletes who've forgotten how to play.
The Observer Myth
"Observe your thoughts without judgment" – the holy grail of mindfulness. Sounds simple. Is impossible.
Who observes? The mind observes the mind. It's like a dog chasing its own tail. You create an artificial split between "observer" and "observed" that doesn't actually exist.
This split becomes the new identity. "I am the observer of my thoughts." A subtle but persistent form of ego-building in the name of ego-dissolution.
Years pass. You become more skilled at observing. But the observer becomes denser, more rigid, more self-satisfied.
The App Generation: Meditation as Consumer Good
Headspace. Calm. Insight Timer. Thousands of guided meditations for every occasion. Meditation for better sleep. For less stress. For more creativity. For better relationships.
Meditation became the spiritual version of Netflix. You consume relaxation. You stream consciousness. You subscribe to enlightenment.
This gamification of inner work keeps people trapped in a consumer mindset. They wait for the next session, the next technique, the next breakthrough. They meditate, but they're never present. They follow instructions, but they never trust their own silence.
The Performance Mindset in Lotus Position
"How long do you meditate?" "What technique do you practice?" "What level are you at?"
Meditation has become another arena where things are measured, compared, and optimized. People collect experiences like trophies. They talk about "advanced" and "beginner" techniques, as if there were grades of silence.
This performance mindset is poison for real meditation. It keeps the ego alive that's supposed to be transcended. It turns the most formless experience into another form.
What Real Meditation Is
Real meditation is not doing. It's being.
It's not the observation of thoughts, but recognizing what observes thoughts. Not concentration on something, but dissolution into everything. Not control of the mind, but letting go of all control.
Real meditation is the direct recognition of what you are beyond all mental activity. It's the immediate experience of your fundamental nature before the first thought arises.
This recognition needs no technique. It needs no time. It needs no practice. It's already completely there.
The Direct Path: LUX as Natural State
What I've discovered through decades of practice: There's a more direct way. A way that skips the mental detours and immediately connects you with your fundamental silence.
This way is the direct connection with LUX – the crystal-clear light of your own essence. Not as visualization or concentration object, but as immediate recognition of what you already are.
When you connect with LUX, something remarkable happens: The mind stops seeking. It recognizes it has already found what it was looking for. Effort dissolves. The search ends.
This isn't a new technique. It's remembering your natural state – the state before all meditation, before all seeking, before all effort.
Why So Few "Arrive"
Most meditators never arrive because they've made the journey into their identity. They've become "meditators." Seeking has become their spiritual personality.
Arriving would mean letting go of this identity. It would mean admitting that all those years of effort were unnecessary. It would mean recognizing that what they've been seeking was never lost.
This is unbearable for the spiritual ego.
The Simplicity Beyond Technique
The path to what you're seeking is radically simple. It doesn't lie in more complicated techniques or longer sessions. It doesn't lie in more exotic traditions or deeper states.
It lies in the simple recognition: You already are what you're seeking.
This recognition isn't the end of a long journey. It's the beginning of an authentic life. Not the result of meditation, but the foundation from which real meditation springs.
The Invitation
If you belong to the 99% trapped in the spiritual hamster wheel, there is a way out. But it doesn't lie in a new technique or better system.
It lies in the courage to let go of all techniques and see what's there without them. In the willingness to abandon your meditation identity and discover who you are beyond all spiritual roles.
In the simple recognition that what you're seeking is already complete within you – as the crystal-clear light of your own unchangeable essence.
The question isn't how to get there. You're already there.
The only question is: When will you stop seeking and start being?
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For those ready to step beyond the meditation maze, my LUX approach offers a direct return to your natural state – no techniques required.
German Version: Warum 99% der Meditierenden nie ankommen
Further Reading 📚
How the illusion that others have arrived before you is blocking you
Unless you face the deep shit, you won’t arrive anywhere
First you dump the “meditator” personality and then the “healer”
Woooshh! As a teacher/creator on Insight Timer took a bit of a punch there, lol, but I completely get what you’re saying.
My guided meditations are all about inner exploration. To me..the key is not to focus or concentrate but the opposite…it’s to release control and be..and in this state….cool shit happens! 🔥
It’s been interesting to see my own progression with meditation. In the beginning I’d fall asleep or get lost in thoughts..then began releasing control and having experiences, and now I can enter this state at will.
I love what you’ve done here. You’re rubbing a belief I have (loosely held) that everyone had a modality that comes more natural to them. So thank you for this.