Openness and awareness is a state of not manufacturing anything else; it is just being. There is a misunderstanding, particularly in connection with vipashyana, which regards attaining awareness as an enormous effort–as if you were trying to become a certain unusual and special species of animal. You think: now you’re known as a meditator, so now you should proceed in a certain special way, and that way you will become a full-fledged meditator. That is the wrong attitude. One doesn’t try to hold oneself in the state of awareness. One doesn’t try painfully to stick to it.

From The Path Is the Goal: A Basic Handbook of Buddhist Meditation, page 118.

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