How to Experience the True Nature of Mind

According to the Buddha, the basic nature of mind can be directly experienced simply by allowing the mind to rest as it is. How do we accomplish this? Let’s try a brief exercise in resting the mind. This is not a meditation exercise. In fact, it’s an exercise in “nonmeditation” or open awareness—a very old Buddhist practice that takes the pressure off thinking you have to achieve a goal or experience some sort of special state. In nonmeditation, we simply rest the mind without getting lost in thoughts or emotions. That is all there is to it.