The only reason you would explain what swimming is to a fish is if you wanted that fish to better understand itself or become more comfortable with itself.

You would never tell the fish *how* to swim, of course, because that’s obviously something it’s already been doing since day one.

Swimming, after all, is its natural state, the way in which it’s been designed to effortlessly move through life.

Things would get pretty complicated pretty quickly if that fish suddenly decided that it needed to learn how to swim. If that were to happen, the fish would have to start by ignoring what already came naturally to it; it would then have to devise a means of controlling itself, so as to avoid swimming incorrectly. Obviously, all attempts to swim would never really work out because *trying to swim* is exactly the thing that would prevent it from being able to swim.

Little would this fish realize that failing at swimming would in fact reveal the most natural, beautiful, and effortless form of swimming possible.

“Meditation” is just a personality’s attempt to swim. Meditation doesn’t work because meditation is what you are; it’s the means by which you swim; the means by which you move through life. Beneath the superficial layer of the personality is silence… effortless silence… effortless meditation.

Understandably, to a busy mind, meditation sounds appealing, and perhaps for the majority of folks out there, it’s necessary. After all, a fish that’s determined to ignore its true nature, might as well take what peace it can through the process of trying to find it. Might as well try and swim a little awkwardly, if it means catching a silent moment of sanity here and there when possible.

For those of us, however, who are tired of fighting the good fight; tired of trying to become human, perhaps it’s time to throw in the towel and stop trying to swim.

It’s a big step, of course, but fortunately, it’s the only step needed.

No longer trying simply means noticing where you’re already coming from… noticing that silence is already at the heart of your identity.

When you let go of your struggle, you’ll feel the current carrying you, and you’ll realize that life itself *is* the meditation. Awareness itself *is* the swimming.

Truly, nothing needs to be added. Nothing needs to be fixed. What you’ve been chasing has been the water around you this entire time — and the one swimming in it.

The effort to meditate is the last ignorance.

The silence you seek is already here, moving as you, breathing as you, living as you.

When the struggle ends, meditation remains — not as something you do, but as something you are.

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