A revolution
Spiritual theater must end.
Spiritual practice shall exist to reconnect with the soul, only. Never to confuse, distract, delay, self-inflate, control, nor compromise.
To that end...
Sustainable
Meditation should be sustainable.
A spiritual practice that employs guilt, exaggeration, or force is not a viable practice for life. Same for boring, difficult, or tedious.
Joyful
Meditation should bring you to your soul, the source of joy. As such, meditation should be enjoyable.
Similarly, when learning meditation, it should not be presented in a serious, self-important manner, as the soul is not serious by nature.
This is in stark contrast from the goals of the current paradigm of meditation which are to bring you to calm, a finite quality of the body, which is neither joyful nor sustainable.
Or have you manipulate energy, which is work, neither joyful nor sustainable.
Immediate
Meditation should not have to wait to be practiced—it should be available right now, no matter what.
Since the soul is ever-present, there is no need for a special time, place, or set of conditions to reconnect with it. Only depth of experience is affected by particulars.
Healthy
Meditation should be healthy in every way.
For example, it should not involve any kind of rigid posture, nor induction of stress, nor bending of mind, nor adopting foreign beliefs, because there is no need to push oneself to return to the soul.
Unlimited
Meditation should not limit the student.
The practice should inherently take one as far and as deep as one wants to go, without a gauntlet of upgrades.
Also, it should not be constrained by focusing on finite objects, such as the breath, the body, energies, or objects in the environment.
Normal
Meditation should be presented in a normal manner.
Like the way that any other worldly skill is presented, whether it be dance, flight, or chef training.
This is contrast to spiritual practices cultivating specialness in the teacher, the student, and the process.
Similarly...
Uncomplicated
Meditation should not use specialized language to be conveyed.
There is no need to make returning to the soul complicated, as the soul is not complicated.
Unburdened
Meditation should only guarantee a claim to two things, which is a return to a direct experience of the stillness of the soul and ultimately identification with the soul.
Any other claims such as healing, manipulating energies, or manipulating the universe takes away from the total transformative power already latent in these two claims and diluting the simplicity of the soul.
Clean
Experience of the soul should not be equated with ritual, philosophy, tradition, and behavior.
Also, meditation training should not become entangled with phenomena of the soul, of which there are endless paths and claims to explore.
These are not wrong, but to keep the teaching clean and simple, they must be disclosed as being separate from the teaching of returning to the soul.
Portable
Meditation should be able to be practiced with everything you were born with. External props such as music, incense, altars, special cushions, apps, and psychedelics are limiting. They create a false dependency and deny that you can have the experience of your soul right now.
Also, meditation should not be exclusively practiced in any particular place, setting, or group.
For example, it should be able to be practiced eyes open, in noisy areas, while standing.
Experience of the stillness of the soul should not be limited to eyes closed, quiet areas, sitting on a cushion, with a particular app, listening to music, or taking drugs.
Practical
The practice of meditation should be practical and forgiving to be sustainable.
Meditation is not about achieving a state of purity, which is a human-invented mental concept and is meaningless with regards to the soul.
Conversely, as the soul is always present, its inner experience does not require purification any more than living a healthy lifestyle without the use of mind-altering drugs.
Reliable
Meditation should have a trustworthiness—its performance is repeatable: you do something and you get a result.
There should be no superstitious actions or conditional promises for re-connection with the reality of the soul, as it is inseparable from you—it is who you are more fundamentally than your body’s cells or how appropriately you behave.
Accommodating
Meditation should fit to you as you are, now, meeting you where you are at.
No matter the daily activity or medical condition—running for a bus or laying in a hospital bed unable to breathe on your own—you should not have to change yourself into a ready state for meditation.
The infinite soul is closer to you than your next breath, so a meditation practice should be as infinitely flexible.
Full
Turning awareness inwards should not be equated with requiring deprivation of sensation nor deprivation from life.
As the soul is us, awareness of its many qualities does not require denial of worldly comfort nor dimming of senses beyond closing ones eyes to meditate inwards.
The soul is fullness by nature, not nothingness, not difficulty.
Empowering
Meditation must enable the student to be independent from the teacher.
It should be no different than learning any other skill, where lifelong dependency upon the teacher is a sign of a clingy, failed teacher.
The claim of authority for a lifetime can only come from going inward to the domain of the soul, never outward towards an external personality.
xxx - Simple
(this is covered by Uncomplicated)
Because the soul is simple, the path of return should be simple—but not simplistic.
Complexity has nothing to do with the simplicity of the experience of the stillness of the soul.