Over the years, my meditation practice has come to have three distinct faces. I think of them as three points of a triangle.

1. Turning Inward

At night, I sit with my eyes closed and turn inward.

I look honestly at what is moving within me—attachments, fears, cravings, judgments, anger, resistance, and whatever I may have pushed away or disowned.

This is the practice of knowing ourselves intimately and leaving nothing outside the path.

2. Opening Beyond

In the morning, I sit with my eyes wide open, looking toward the horizon.

I do not meditate. I do not follow the breath, observe the mind, or try to enter any particular state.

I simply sit completely motionless, in absolute stillness, allowing everything to be exactly as it is.

Nothing to seek. Nothing to do. Just this vast openness.

3. Just Sitting

Then I lower my gaze and simply sit.

This is shikantaza—just sitting. Nothing to attain, nothing to understand, nothing to fix.

Body and mind are simply present. Still, awake, and intimate with this moment.

These three faces have become one practice:

Know yourself. Do nothing. Just sit.

Turning inward. Opening beyond. Just sitting.

Three faces of sitting, but ultimately only one sitting.