Many thoughts will crowd into your mind. Ignore them, letting them go. If they persist be aware of them with the awareness which does not think. In other words, think non-thinking. Dogen,
Zen Master

The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death.
Sogyal Rinpoche