The Short Form of Meditation

There's a wonderful story about a seeker named Bahia who wanted the answer. He came upon the Buddha while he was on alms round and asked for his teachings in brief. The Buddha gave this very short summation of how to practice meditation. When you are not there, you are neither here, nor there, nor in between. This, just this, is the end of suffering. As soon as those words went in, he awakened. And later that afternoon, he was walking through a field where a mother cow was looking after a calf,. The cow got threatened, thought Bahia was a threat to the calf, gored Bahia, and he died that afternoon.