Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.

~Ajhan Chah

James's comment: This is really a great teaching. Too often I try to become something via Buddhism. Whether that is a meditator or an enlightened being. This teaching reminds me of Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings on just being. "When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing." There is nothing to become because everthing we hope to become we already are. The trick I believe is to use tools such as meditation, walking, eating, breathing to remind ourselves of this truth and reality.

Just be.

-Peace to all beings-