once our true nature of pure awareness has become apparent, we realise that no effort is required either to return to it or to remain there. In fact, we become sensitive to the subtle effort that the mind almost continuously makes in order to maintain the illusion of a separate and independently existing self. As an inevitable corollary to this understanding, to remain knowingly the presence of awareness becomes increasingly our natural condition, until there is no longer a distinction between meditation and life. Effortless being is our natural state.