Ajahn Chah

Then any painful sensations that arise will gradually cease of their own accord.

Finally, you look on the breath as if it were some relatives come to visit you.

When the relatives leave, you follow them out to see them off.

You watch until they've walked up the drive and out of sight, and then you go back indoors.

We watch the breath in the same way.

If the breath is coarse, we know that it's coarse.

If it's subtle, we know that it's subtle.

As it becomes increasingly fine,

We keep following it at the same time awakening the mind.

Eventually the breath disappears altogether and all that remains is that feeling of alertness.

This is called meeting the Buddha.

We have that clear wakeful awareness called Buddho, the one who knows, the awakened one, the radiant one.

This is meeting and dwelling with the Buddha, with knowledge and clarity.

It was only the historical Buddha who passed away, the true Buddha,

The Buddha that is clear, radiant knowing can still be experienced and attained today.

And if we do attain it, the heart is one.

So let go.

Put everything down.

Everything except the knowing.

Don't be fooled if visions or sounds arise in your mind during meditation.