TETHOS - ORIGIN: from Middle French methode, from Latin methodus, “way of teaching or going,” from Greek methodus, “scientific inquiry, method of inquiry,” originally “pursuit, following after,” from meta- “after,” “a traveling, way.”

Meditation requires a method to go into a spaceless whole. Love doesn’t require any method because it involves total surrender to the whole and in a sense is a methodless approach. The method of meditation isn’t the meditation. However, a meditation method can be tremendously helpful in achieving a meditative state.

The mind is always looking through its own projection and concluding that it’s both the effect and the cause. Remember, the effect is always decided by the cause.

This is the methodless method: disconnect from the cause, and your being won’t be affected. In meditation, cause and effect aren’t two, but are undivided. In meditation, the egg is the chicken, and the chicken is the egg.

Laughing often for no reason at all is considered to be madness by others. The mind demands a reason to laugh, for it needs something objective in order to be joyful. In society, if you laugh for no reason too much, you may be locked away in a psychiatric ward.

Every sound you make, every sound you hear, every sound you experience comes from the silence within. Every sound resonates, then returns back to silence.

We are all influenced by repetitive mind mantras but aren’t aware of them. What is a mantra? A mantra is a method of concentration, which isn’t the same as meditation. A mantra can prepare the ground for meditation, but it isn’t meditation. There’s nothing wrong with a mantra if you use it with awareness. There’s nothing wrong with thoughts and words if you use them with awareness. Use words to slip into silence. Be aware and leave the words behind, leave the thoughts, leave the mind. Just jump into the abyss.