I remember a few months back, I was busy with some work project, my teacher gave me instructions to sit in my car 20 mins to “get into awakened awareness” and she introduced to me the meditstion of doing nothing by Chan master sheng yen.

She advised me to never allow awareness to lapse into ordinary mind which is operating from a small self for too long, at that time I don’t have no-self insight.. I’m grateful she made me do that. She wanted me to sit day and night one hour each for the momentum to carry on. She was strict and didn’t indulge me.

I still rmb her advice. So I meditate whenever I can.

But meditstion is easier now because once the self filter is gone with no self insight one is left with only the mind and nothing else apart from that. Just mind all over. Similar nature, empty clarity all over. So mindfulness is the only thing left, I also finally understood when she says “I don’t meditate like you but I meditate all the time, you will understand soon”.

The path is so drastically different at each stage and a teacher’s job is not that simple. I had an amazing one who told me my own mind is more intelligent than my self and does not let me delude myself easily with advise like “no need to practise”.

Meeting her is such an auspicious karmic link.