Essentially, the aim of meditation is to awaken our aliveness with clarity and authenticity, to use it for the direct and intuitive experience of reality, moment to moment, and to manifest this in the world as a beneficial presence in our relationships, our work, and in our community. Meditation is a path which acquaints our mind with our wisdom nature and cultivates the wisdom qualities of that essential nature as an authentic expression of our aliveness. The purpose of meditation is bring us home to the realization of our authentic unitive nature being totally open, boundlessly radiant, and always presencing. This nature is the fundamental awareness out of which everything arises and passes through, and into which it disappears. It underlies the whole of life and death of body, mind, and soul, all that exists, all possibilities.
Meditation is the conscious placing and maintenance of attention.
The capacity for intentionally using attention is one the precious gifts of life. Meditation is a path which is rooted in the ground of a vision of the human design and possibility. All forms of meditation fit into one or more of three types. Clarifying meditations relax our body and mind into the peaceful state of our true nature, bringing us home. They purify by clearing out confusion, agitation, and tensions.