Engage in a **centerless awareness meditation** that emphasizes **effortless presence** and the dissolution of boundaries between perception and experience. 

Through a series of **thought-provoking questions** and guided pauses, you'll explore the nature of perception, inviting a **sense of openness** while releasing the need for clarity and focus.

The practice culminates in a silent observation of **awareness without a center**, allowing you to rest in the unfolding moment.

Let the hands rest naturally. Allow the eyes to be softly open or gently closed.

Take one slow breath in… and exhale fully.

Let the entire sensory field — sounds, body sensations, space — be present without effort.

There is nothing to attain. Simply arrive.

Release all deliberate focus. Let go of searching. Let go of analyzing.

Allow this moment to be one seamless field — no inside, no outside, just awareness unfolding.

Relax the face. Relax the mind. Relax the sense of being “inside” anything.

Now introduce a light question — not to answer with thought, but to notice how the field responds.

“When perception happens… where does it begin?”

Do not search for an answer. Just feel the question echo through the field.

“If there is no inside of the mind… and no outside in the world… where is perception occurring?”

Let the question reshape the space around you. Do not think. Just notice.

Is there a soft expansion? A blurring of boundaries? A sense of openness?

Now the heart of the practice. Introduce the kōan slowly, as if dropping a stone into a still lake:

“From where does perception arise when there is no inside, no outside, and no one perceiving?”

Let the question resonate. Do nothing. Seek nothing. Let the system reorganize on its own.

Just notice: Does the familiar center fade? Does perception feel ownerless?

Now, simply rest in whatever is unfolding. If there is expansion — let it be.

If there is silence — let it be. If there is openness — let it be.

If nothing special happens — let that be. Do not try to hold anything.

Do not chase clarity. Let perception be centerless, originless. No inside. No outside. Just field.

Now apply the closing stroke — a precise question that dissolves the last assumption of “inner.”

“Show, right now: Where is the inner side of what perceives?”

Let the question take away the place where the observer once stood. Do not respond. Do not think.

Allow the field to remain whole, without a center, without an edge.

For the next five minutes, rest in complete silence.

Remain in the experience just as it is: perception without a perceiver, openness without boundary.

Awareness without center, clarity without effort. This is the kōan resolving you — not the other way around.

Begin to notice the breath again. Feel the weight of the body. Sense the space around you.

No need to reconstruct a center. Let the world and the body appear within the same open field.

When you’re ready, slowly open the eyes if they were closed. The session is complete.

Centerless Awareness Meditation