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 Witnessing is the only method 

- Anything that leads you to yourself is meditation -

The key in all those 112 methods is

Witnessing

"Meditation is the only answer to all the questions of man. It may be frustration, it may be depression, it may be sadness, it may be meaninglessness, it may be anguish: The problems may be many but the answer is one.

Meditation is the answer.

And the simplest method of meditation is just a way of witnessing. There are one hundred and twelve methods of meditation, but witnessing is an essential part of all one hundred and twelve methods. So as far as I am concerned, witnessing is the only method. Those one hundred and twelve are different applications of witnessing. The essential core, the spirit of meditation is to learn to how to witness.

You are seeing a tree: You are there, the tree is there, but can't you find one thing more? - that you are seeing the tree, that there is a witness in you which is seeing you seeing the tree. The world is not divided only into the object and the subject. There is also something beyond both, and that beyond is meditation.

So in every act... and I don't want people to sit for one hour or half an hour in the morning or in the evening. That kind of meditation is not going to help, because if you meditate for one hour, then for twenty-three hours you will be doing just the opposite of it.

Meditation can be victorious: witnessing is such a method that it can spread over twenty-four hours of your day. Eating, don't get identified with the eater. The food is there, the eater is there, and you are here, watching. Walking, let the body walk but you simply watch. Slowly, the knack comes. It is a knack, and once you can watch small things....

This crow, crowing... you are listening. These are two -- object and subject. But can't you see a witness who is seeing both? -- The crow, the listener, and still there is someone who is watching both. It is such a simple phenomenon. Then you can move into deeper layers: you can watch your thoughts; you can watch your emotions, your moods.

There is no need to say, "I am sad." The fact is that you are a witness that a cloud of sadness is passing over you. There is anger -- you can simply be a witness. There is no need to say, "I am angry." You are never angry -- there is no way for you to be angry -- you are always a witness. The anger comes and goes; you are just a mirror. Things come, get reflected, move -- and the mirror remains empty and clean, unscratched by the reflections.

Witnessing is finding your inside mirror.

And once you have found it, miracles start happening. When you are simply witnessing the thoughts, thoughts disappear. Then there is suddenly a tremendous silence you have never known. When you are watching the moods -- anger, sadness, happiness -- they suddenly disappear and an even greater silence is experienced.

And when there is nothing to watch -- then the revolution. Then the witnessing energy turns upon itself because there is nothing to prevent it; there is no object left. The word "object" is beautiful. It simply means that which prevents you, objects you. When there is no object to your witnessing, it simply comes around back to yourself -- to the source. And this is the point where one becomes enlightened.

Meditation is only a path: the end is always buddhahood, enlightenment. And to know this moment is to know all. Then there is no misery, no frustration, no meaninglessness; then life is no longer an accident. It becomes part of this cosmic whole -- an essential part. And a tremendous bliss arises that this whole existence needs you.

Man's greatest need is to be needed. If somebody needs you, you feel gratified. But if the whole existence needs you, then there is no limit to your bliss. And this existence needs even a small blade of grass as much as the biggest star.

There is no question of inequality. Nobody can substitute for you. If you are not there, then existence will be something less and will remain always something less -- it will never be full. That feeling -- that this whole immense existence is in need of you -- takes all miseries away from you.

For the first time, you have come home."

- Osho, “Light on the Path, #1”

 Witnessing 

"Just one quality of the buddha hast to be remembered. He consists only of one quality: witnessing.

This small word `witnessing` contains the whole of spirituality.

Witness that you are not the body.

Witness that you are not the mind.

Witness that you are only a witness.

As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. This is what is called ecstasy."

- Osho, "God is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth, #5"

"Anything that leads you to yourself is meditation. And it is immensely significant to find your own meditation, because in the very finding you will find great joy. And because it is your own finding – not some ritual imposed upon you – you will love to go deeper into it. The deeper you go into it, the happier you will feel – peaceful, more silent, more together, more dignified, more graceful. [....]

You should not let a single moment go by unconsciously. Watchfulness will sharpen your consciousness. This is the essential religion – all else is simply talk. But Waduda, you ask me, “Is there something more?” No, if you can do only watchfulness, nothing else is needed."

- Osho, "The Golden Future, #18, Q3"

THE VIGYANA BHAIRAVA TANTRA

- Shiva's 112 Meditation Techniques -

Osho has often spoken about the 112 methods of meditation given by Shiva to his consort, Devi. Vigyana Bhairava Tantra contains the complete series of discourses given by Osho on all these meditation techniques, and his responses to questions raised by seekers about the meditations. In the first discourse of the series, Osho suggests:

Really, when you try the right method it clicks immediately. So I will go on talking about methods here every day. You try them. Just play with them – go home and try. The right method, whenever you happen upon it, just clicks. Something explodes in you, and you know that “This is the right method for me.” But effort is needed, and you may be surprised that suddenly one day one method has gripped you.

So while I am talking here, parallel to it go on playing with these methods. I say playing because you should not be too serious. Just play! Something may fit you. If it fits you, then be serious, and then go deep into it – intensely, honestly, with all your energy, with all your mind. But before that just play.

I have found that while you are playing your mind is more open. While you are serious your mind is not so open; it is closed. So just play. Do not be too serious, just play. And these methods are simple, you can just play with them.

Take one method and play with it for at least three days. If it gives you a certain feeling of affinity, if it gives you a certain feeling of well-being, if it gives you a certain feeling that this is for you, then be serious about it. Then forget the others, do not play with other methods. Stick to it – at least for three months. Miracles are possible. The only thing is that the technique must be for you. If the technique is not for you, then nothing happens. Then you may go on with it for lives together, but nothing will happen. If the method is for you then even three minutes are enough.

So these one hundred and twelve methods can be a miraculous experience for you, or they may just be a listening – it depends on you. I will go on describing each method from as many angles as possible. If you feel any affinity with it, play with it for three days. If you feel that it fits, that something clicks in you, continue it for three months. Life is a miracle. If you have not known its mystery, that only shows that you do not know the technique for how to approach it.
 

Shiva proposes one hundred and twelve methods. These are all the methods possible. If nothing clicks and nothing gives you the feeling that this is for you, then there is no method left for you - remember this. Then forget spirituality and be happy. Then it is not for you.

But these one hundred and twelve methods are for the whole humanity - for all the ages that have passed and for all the ages that have yet to come. In no time has there ever been a single man, and there will never be one, who can say, "These one hundred and twelve methods are all useless for me." Impossible! This is impossible!

Every type of mind has been taken into account. Every possible type of mind has been given a technique in tantra. There are many techniques for which no man exists yet; they are for the future. There are many techniques for which no man exists now; they are for the past. But do not be afraid. There are many methods which are for you."

-Osho, "Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 1, #1"

 Use the technique as it is given.

 Don't change it, don't improve it 

These techniques are based on a very deep knowledge, on a very deep encounter with the human mind. Each technique is based on long experimentation.

So remember this, don't do anything on your own, and don't mix two techniques, because their functioning is different, their ways are different, their bases are different. They lead to the same end, but as means they are totally different. Sometimes they may even be diametrically opposite. So don't mix two techniques. Really, don't mix anything - use the technique as it is given.

Don't change it, don't improve it, because you cannot improve it, and any change you bring to it will be fatal. And before you start doing a technique, be fully alert that you have understood it. If you feel confused and you don't know really what the technique is, it is better not to do it, because each technique is to bring about a revolution in you.

These techniques are not evolutionary. By evolution I mean that if you don't do anything and just go on living, in millions of years the meditation will happen automatically to you, in millions of lives you will evolve. In the natural course of time, you will come to the point to which a Buddha comes through a revolution. These techniques are revolutionary. Really, they are shortcuts; they are not natural. Nature will lead you to Buddhahood, to enlightenment - you will come to it one day - but then it is up to nature; you cannot do anything about it except just go on living in misery. It will take a very long time; really, millions of years and lives.

Religion is revolutionary. It gives you a technique which can shorten the lengthy process, and with which you can take a jump - a jump which will avoid millions of lives. In a single moment you can travel millions of years. So it is dangerous, and unless you understand it rightly, don't do it. Don't mix anything on your own. Don't change.

First try to understand the technique absolutely rightly. When you have understood it, then try it.

And don't use this old doctor's motto that when you don't know what to do, do something. No, don't do anything. Non-doing will be more beneficial to you than any doing. This is so because the mind is so delicate that if you do something wrongly it is very difficult to undo it - very difficult to undo it.

It is very easy to do something wrong, but very difficult to undo it. Remember this.

-Osho, "The Book of Secrets, #57"

OSHO

THE VIGYANA BHAIRAVA TANTRA

INDEX OF 112 TANTRA MEDITATIONS

Osho has often spoken about the 112 methods of meditation given by Shiva to his consort, Devi.

Vigyana Bhairava Tantra contains the complete series of discourses given by Osho on all these meditation techniques, and his responses to questions raised by seekers about the meditations.

In the first discourse of the series, Osho suggests:  

"We will try to understand each method and how to choose for yourself one method which can change you and your mind. This understanding, this intellectual understanding will be a basic necessity, but this is not the end. Whatsoever I talk about here, try it.

Really, when you try the right method it clicks immediately. So I will go on talking about methods here every day. You try them. Just play with them -- go home and try. The right method, whenever you happen upon it, just clicks. Something explodes in you, and you know that "This is the right method for me." But effort is needed, and you may be surprised that suddenly one day one method has gripped you.

So while I am talking here, parallel to it go on playing with these methods. I say playing because you should not be too serious. Just play! Something may fit you. If it fits you, then be serious, and then go deep into it -- intensely, honestly, with all your energy, with all your mind. But before that just play.

I have found that while you are playing your mind is more open. While you are serious your mind is not so open; it is closed. So just play. Do not be too serious, just play. And these methods are simple, you can just play with them.

Take one method and play with it for at least three days. If it gives you a certain feeling of affinity, if it gives you a certain feeling of well-being, if it gives you a certain feeling that this is for you, then be serious about it. Then forget the others, do not play with other methods. Stick to it -- at least for three months. Miracles are possible. The only thing is that the technique must be for you. If the technique is not for you, then nothing happens. Then you may go on with it for lives together, but nothing will happen. If the method is for you then even three minutes are enough.

So these one hundred and twelve methods can be a miraculous experience for you, or they may just be a listening -- it depends on you. I will go on describing each method from as many angles as possible. If you feel any affinity with it, play with it for three days. If you feel that it fits, that something clicks in you, continue it for three months. Life is a miracle. If you have not known its mystery, that only shows that you do not know the technique for how to approach it.

Shiva proposes one hundred and twelve methods. These are all the methods possible. If nothing clicks and nothing gives you the feeling that this is for you, then there is no method left for you -- remember this. Then forget spirituality and be happy. Then it is not for you.

But these one hundred and twelve methods are for the whole humanity -- for all the ages that have passed and for all the ages that have yet to come. In no time has there ever been a single man, and there will never be one, who can say, "These one hundred and twelve methods are all useless for me." Impossible! This is impossible!

Every type of mind has been taken into account. Every possible type of mind has been given a technique in tantra. There are many techniques for which no man exists yet; they are for the future. There are many techniques for which no man exists now; they are for the past. But do not be afraid. There are many methods which are for you."

-Osho, "The Book of Secrets, #1"

The 112 Meditations  

From the "The Book of Secrets"

Breath meditations

SHIVA REPLIES:

001

RADIANT ONE,

THIS EXPERIENCE MAY DAWN BETWEEN TWO BREATHS.

AFTER BREATH COMES IN (DOWN)

AND JUST BEFORE TURNING UP (OUT) -- THE BENEFICENCE

002

AS BREATH TURNS FROM DOWN TO UP,

AND AGAIN AS BREATH CURVES FROM UP TO DOWN

-- THROUGH BOTH THESE TURNS, REALIZE.

003

WHENEVER IN-BREATH AND OUT-BREATH FUSE,

AT THIS INSTANT TOUCH THE ENERGY-LESS, ENERGY-FILLED CENTER.

004

WHEN BREATH IS ALL OUT (UP) AND STOPPED OF ITSELF,

OR ALL IN (DOWN) AND STOPPED  -- IN SUCH UNIVERSAL PAUSE,

ONE'S SMALL SELF VANISHES.

THIS IS DIFFICULT ONLY FOR THE IMPURE.   

005

ATTENTION BETWEEN EYEBROWS, LET MIND BE BEFORE THOUGHT.

LET FORM FILL WITH BREATH ESSENCE TO THE TOP OF THE HEAD

AND THERE SHOWER AS LIGHT  

006

WHEN IN WORLDLY ACTIVITY,

KEEP ATTENTIVE BETWEEN THE TWO BREATHS,

AND SO PRACTICING, IN A FEW DAYS, BE BORN ANEW  

007

WITH INTANGIBLE BREATH IN CENTER OF FOREHEAD,

AS THIS REACHES HEART AT THE MOMENT OF SLEEP,

HAVE DIRECTION OVER DREAMS AND OVER DEATH ITSELF.

008

WITH UTMOST DEVOTION,

CENTER ON THE TWO JUNCTIONS OF BREATH

AND KNOW THE KNOWER

009

LIE DOWN AS DEAD. ENRAGED IN WRATH, STAY SO.

OR STARE WITHOUT MOVING AN EYELASH.

OR SUCK SOMETHING AND BECOME THE SUCKING.  

010 WHILE BEING CARESSED, SWEET PRINCESS,

ENTER THE CARESSING AS EVERLASTING LIFE  

011

STOP THE DOORS OF THE SENSES

WHEN FEELING THE CREEPING OF AN ANT. THEN

012

WHEN ON A BED OR A SEAT,

LET YOURSELF BECOME WEIGHTLESS, BEYOND MIND  

013

IMAGINE THE FIVE-COLORED CIRCLES OF THE PEACOCK TAIL

TO BE YOUR FIVE SENSES IN ILLIMITABLE SPACE.

NOW, LET THEIR BEAUTY MELT WITHIN.

SIMILARLY, AT ANY POINT IN SPACE OR ON A WALL --

UNTIL THE POINT DISSOLVES.

THEN YOUR WISH FOR ANOTHER COMES TRUE  

014

PLACE YOUR WHOLE ATTENTION IN THE NERVE,

DELICATE AS THE LOTUS THREAD,

IN THE CENTER OF YOUR SPINAL COLUMN.

IN SUCH BE TRANSFORMED  

015 CLOSING THE SEVEN OPENINGS OF THE HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS,

A SPACE BETWEEN YOUR EYES BECOMES ALL INCLUSIVE  

016

AS SENSES ARE ABSORBED IN THE HEART,

REACH THE CENTER OF THE LOTUS

017

UNMINDING MIND, KEEP IN THE MIDDLE -- UNTIL

018

LOOK LOVINGLY ON SOME OBJECT.

DO NOT GO ON TO ANOTHER OBJECT.

HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OBJECT -- THE BLESSING 

Centering meditations

019

WITHOUT SUPPORT FOR FEET OR HANDS,

SIT ONLY ON BUTTOCKS. SUDDENLY, THE CENTERING  

020

IN A MOVING VEHICLE, BY RHYTHMICALLY SWAYING, EXPERIENCE.

OR IN A STILL VEHICLE,

BY LETTING YOURSELF SWING IN SLOWING INVISIBLE CIRCLES  

021

PIERCE SOME PART OF YOUR NECTAR-FILLED FORM WITH A PIN,

AND GENTLY ENTER THE PIERCING AND ATTAIN TO THE INNER PURITY  

022

LET ATTENTION BE AT A PLACE

WHERE YOU ARE SEEING SOME PAST HAPPENING,

AND EVEN YOUR FORM, HAVING LOST ITS PRESENT CHARACTERISTICS,

IS TRANSFORMED  

Stop meditations

023

FEEL AN OBJECT BEFORE YOU.

FEEL THE ABSENCE OF ALL OTHER OBJECTS BUT THIS ONE.

THEN LEAVING ASIDE THE OBJECT-FEELING

AND THE ABSENCE-FEELING, REALIZE  

024

WHEN A MOOD AGAINST SOMEONE OR FOR SOMEONE ARISES,

DO NOT PLACE IT ON THE PERSON IN QUESTION,

BUT REMAIN CENTERED  

025

JUST AS YOU HAVE THE IMPULSE TO DO SOMETHING, STOP  

026

WHEN SOME DESIRE COMES, CONSIDER IT.

THEN, SUDDENLY, QUIT IT  

027

ROAM ABOUT UNTIL EXHAUSTED AND THEN,

DROPPING TO THE GROUND, IN THIS DROPPING BE WHOLE  

028

SUPPOSE YOU ARE GRADUALLY BEING DEPRIVED OF STRENGTH

OR OF KNOWLEDGE. AT THE INSTANT OF DEPRIVATION, TRANSCEND

029

DEVOTION FREES  

Looking meditations  

030

EYES CLOSED, SEE YOUR INNER BEING IN DETAIL.

THUS SEE YOUR TRUE NATURE  

031

LOOK UPON A BOWL WITHOUT SEEING THE SIDES OR THE MATERIAL.

IN A FEW MOMENTS BECOME AWARE  

032

SEE AS IF FOR THE FIRST TIME

A BEAUTEOUS PERSON OR AN ORDINARY OBJECT  

033

SIMPLY BY LOOKING INTO THE BLUE SKY BEYOND CLOUDS,

THE SERENITY  

034

LISTEN WHILE THE ULTIMATE MYSTICAL TEACHING IS IMPARTED.

EYES STILL, WITHOUT WINKING,

AT ONCE BECOME ABSOLUTELY FREE  

035

AT THE EDGE OF A DEEP WELL

LOOK STEADILY INTO ITS DEPTHS UNTIL

-- THE WONDROUSNESS  

036

LOOK UPON SOME OBJECT,

THEN SLOWLY WITHDRAW YOUR SIGHT FROM IT,

THEN SLOWLY WITHDRAW YOUR THOUGHT FROM IT. THEN     

Sound meditations  

037

IMAGINE THE SANSKRIT LETTERS

IN THESE HONEY-FILLED FOCI OF AWARENESS, FIRST AS LETTERS,

THEN MORE SUBTLY AS SOUNDS,

THEN AS MOST SUBTLE FEELING. THEN, LEAVING THEM ASIDE, BE FREE  

038

BATHE IN THE CENTER OF SOUND,

AS IN THE CONTINUOUS SOUND OF A WATERFALL,

OR BY PUTTING THE FINGERS IN THE EARS, HEAR THE SOUND OF SOUNDS  

039

INTONE A SOUND, AS AUM, SLOWLY.

AS SOUND ENTERS SOUNDFULNESS, SO DO YOU  

040

IN THE BEGINNING

AND GRADUAL REFINEMENT OF THE SOUND OF ANY LETTER, AWAKE  

041

WHILE LISTENING TO STRINGED INSTRUMENTS,

HEAR THEIR COMPOSITE CENTRAL SOUND; THUS OMNIPRESENCE  

042

INTONE A SOUND AUDIBLY,

THEN LESS AND LESS AUDIBLY AS FEELING DEEPENS

INTO THIS SILENT HARMONY  

043

WITH MOUTH SLIGHTLY OPEN,

KEEP MIND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TONGUE.

OR, AS BREATH COMES SILENTLY IN, FEEL THE SOUND "HH."  

044

CENTER ON THE SOUND "AUM" WITHOUT ANY "A" OR "M"  

045

SILENTLY INTONE A WORD ENDING IN "AH."

THEN IN THE "HH," EFFORTLESSLY, THE SPONTANEITY.  

046

STOPPING EARS BY PRESSING AND RECTUM BY CONTRACTING,

ENTER THE SOUND  

047

ENTER THE SOUND OF YOUR NAME AND,

THROUGH THIS SOUND, ALL SOUNDS  

Sexual meditations  

048  

AT THE START OF SEXUAL UNION KEEP ATTENTIVE

ON THE FIRE IN THE BEGINNING, AND SO CONTINUING,

AVOID THE EMBERS IN THE END  

049

WHEN IN SUCH EMBRACE YOUR SENSES ARE SHAKEN AS LEAVES,

ENTER THIS SHAKING  

050

EVEN REMEMBERING UNION,

WITHOUT THE EMBRACE, THE TRANSFORMATION      

051

ON JOYOUSLY SEEING A LONG ABSENT FRIEND,

PERMEATE THIS JOY  

052

WHEN EATING OR DRINKING,

BECOME THE TASTE OF THE FOOD OR DRINK, AND BE FILLED  

053

WHEN SINGING, SEEING, TASTING,

BE AWARE YOU ARE AND DISCOVER THE EVERLIVING  

054

WHEREVER SATISFACTION IS FOUND,

IN WHATEVER ACT, ACTUALIZE THIS  

055

AT THE POINT OF SLEEP,

WHEN THE SLEEP HAS NOT YET COME

AND EXTERNAL WAKEFULNESS VANISHES,

AT THIS POINT BEING IS REVEALED  

056

ILLUSIONS DECEIVE, COLORS CIRCUMSCRIBE,

EVEN DIVISIBLES ARE INDIVISIBLE

057

IN MOODS OF EXTREME DESIRE, BE UNDISTURBED  

058

THIS SO-CALLED UNIVERSE APPEARS AS A JUGGLING,

A PICTURE SHOW.

TO BE HAPPY LOOK UPON IT SO  

059

PUT ATTENTION NEITHER ON PLEASURE NOR ON PAIN,

BUT BETWEEN THESE  

060

OBJECTS AND DESIRES EXIST IN ME AS IN OTHERS.

SO ACCEPTING, LET THEM BE TRANSFORMED  

061

AS WAVES COME WITH WATER AND FLAMES WITH FIRE,

SO THE UNIVERSAL WAVES WITH US  

062

WHEREVER YOUR MIND IS WANDERING,

INTERNALLY OR EXTERNALLY, AT THIS VERY PLACE, THIS  

063

WHEN VIVIDLY AWARE THROUGH SOME PARTICULAR SENSE,

KEEP IN THE AWARENESS  

064

AT THE START OF SNEEZING, DURING FRIGHT, IN ANXIETY,

ABOVE A CHASM, FLYING IN BATTLE, IN EXTREME CURIOSITY,

AT THE BEGINNING OF HUNGER, AT THE END OF HUNGER,

BE UNINTERRUPTEDLY AWARE  

065

THE PURITY OF OTHER TEACHINGS IS AN IMPURITY TO US.

IN REALITY, KNOW NOTHING AS PURE OR IMPURE  

066

BE THE UNSAME SAME TO FRIEND AS TO STRANGER,

IN HONOR AND DISHONOR  

067

HERE IS THE SPHERE OF CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE.

THROUGH CHANGE CONSUME CHANGE  

068

AS A HEN MOTHERS HER CHICKS, MOTHER PARTICULAR KNOWINGS,

PARTICULAR DOINGS, IN REALITY  

069

SINCE, IN TRUTH, BONDAGE AND FREEDOM ARE RELATED,

THESE WORDS ARE ONLY FOR THOSE TERRIFIED WITH THE UNIVERSE.

THIS UNIVERSE IS A REFLECTION OF MINDS.

AS YOU SEE MANY SUNS IN THE WATER FROM ONE SUN,

SO SEE BONDAGE AND LIBERATION  

Light meditations  

070

CONSIDER YOUR ESSENCE

AS LIGHT RAYS RISING FROM CENTER TO CENTER UP THE VERTEBRAE,

AND SO RISES `LIVINGNESS' IN YOU  

071

OR IN THE SPACES BETWEEN, FEEL THIS AS LIGHTNING  

072

FEEL THE COSMOS AS A TRANSLUCENT EVER-LIVING PRESENCE  

073

IN SUMMER WHEN YOU SEE THE ENTIRE SKY ENDLESSLY CLEAR,

ENTER SUCH CLARITY  

074

SEE ALL SPACE AS IF ALREADY ABSORBED

IN YOUR OWN HEAD IN THE BRILLIANCE  

075

WAKING, SLEEPING, DREAMING, KNOW YOU AS LIGHT   

Darkness meditations  

076

IN RAIN, DURING A BLACK NIGHT,

ENTER THAT BLACKNESS AS THE FORM OF FORMS  

077

WHEN A MOONLESS RAINY NIGHT IS NOT PRESENT CLOSE EYES

AND FIND BLACKNESS BEFORE YOU. OPENING EYES, SEE BLACKNESS.

SO FAULTS DISAPPEAR FOREVER  

078

WHEREVER YOUR ATTENTION ALIGHTS, AT THIS VERY POINT, EXPERIENCE   

Imagining meditations  

079

FOCUS ON FIRE RISING THROUGH YOUR FORM, FROM THE TOES UP,

UNTIL THE BODY BURNS TO ASHES BUT NOT YOU  

080

MEDITATE ON THE MAKE-BELIEVE WORLD AS BURNING TO ASHES,

AND BECOME BEING ABOVE HUMAN.  

081

AS, SUBJECTIVELY,

LETTER FLOW INTO WORDS AND WORDS INTO SENTENCES,

AND AS, OBJECTIVELY, CIRCLES FLOW INTO WORLDS

AND WORLDS INTO PRINCIPLES,

FIND AT LAST THESE CONVERGING IN OUR BEING  

082

FEEL -- MY THOUGHT, I-NESS, INTERNAL ORGANS -- ME  

083

BEFORE DESIRE AND BEFORE KNOWING, HOW CAN I SAY I AM?

CONSIDER. DISSOLVE IN THE BEAUTY.

BEFORE DESIRE AND BEFORE KNOWING, HOW CAN I SAY I AM?  

084

TOSS ATTACHMENT FOR BODY ASIDE,

REALIZING I AM EVERYWHERE.

ONE WHO IS EVERYWHERE IS JOYOUS  

085

THINKING NO THING -- WILL LIMITED-SELF UNLIMIT  

086

SUPPOSE YOU CONTEMPLATE SOMETHING BEYOND PERCEPTION,

BEYOND GRASPING, BEYOND NOT BEING - YOU  

087 I AM EXISTING. THIS IS MINE. THIS IS THIS.

OH BELOVED, EVEN IN SUCH KNOW ILLIMITABLY  

088

EACH THING IS PERCEIVED THROUGH KNOWING.

THE SELF SHINES IN SPACE THROUGH KNOWING.

PERCEIVE ONE BEING AS KNOWER AND KNOWN  

089

BELOVED, AT THIS MOMENT LET MIND, KNOWING,

BREATH, FORM, BE INCLUDED  

090

TOUCHING EYEBALLS AS A FEATHER,

LIGHTNESS BETWEEN THEM OPENS INTO HEART

AND THERE PERMEATES THE COSMOS  

091

KIND DEVI, ENTER ETHERIC PRESENCE PERVADING FAR ABOVE

AND BELOW YOUR FORM  

092

PUT MINDSTUFF IN SUCH INEXPRESSIBLE FINENESS,

ABOVE, BELOW AND IN YOUR HEART  

093

CONSIDER ANY AREA OF YOUR PRESENT FORM

AS LIMITLESSLY SPACIOUS  

094

FEEL YOUR SUBSTANCE, BONES, FLESH, BLOOD,

SATURATED WITH THE COSMIC ESSENCE  

A meditation for women only  

095

FEEL THE FINE QUALITIES OF CREATIVITY PERMEATING YOUR BREASTS

AND ASSUMING DELICATE CONFIGURATIONS  

096

ABIDE IN SOME PLACE ENDLESSLY SPACIOUS, CLEAR OF TREES,

HILLS, HABITATIONS. THENCE COMES THE END OF MIND PRESSURES  

097

CONSIDER THE PLENUM TO BE YOUR OWN BODY OF BLISS.  

098

IN ANY EASY POSITION GRADUALLY PERVADE AN AREA

BETWEEN THE ARMPITS INTO GREAT PEACE  

099

FEEL YOURSELF AS PERVADING ALL DIRECTIONS, FAR, NEAR  

100

THE APPRECIATION OF OBJECTS AND SUBJECTS IS THE SAME

FOR AN ENLIGHTENED AS FOR AN UNENLIGHTENED PERSON.

THE FORMER HAS ONE GREATNESS:

HE REMAINS IN THE SUBJECTIVE MOOD, NOT LOST IN THINGS  

101

BELIEVE OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT, PERVADING  

102

IMAGINE SPIRIT SIMULTANEOUSLY WITHIN AND AROUND YOU

UNTIL THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE SPIRITUALIZES  

103

WITH YOUR ENTIRE CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE VERY START OF DESIRE,

OF KNOWING, KNOW  

104

O SHAKTI, EACH PARTICULAR PERCEPTION IS LIMITED,

DISAPPEARING IN OMNIPOTENCE  

Meditations on oneness with all   

105

IN TRUTH FORMS ARE INSEPARATE.

INSEPARATE ARE OMNIPRESENT BEING AND YOUR OWN FORM.

REALIZE EACH AS MADE OF THIS CONSCIOUSNESS  

106

FEEL THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF EACH PERSON

AS YOUR OWN CONSCIOUSNESS.

SO, LEAVING ASIDE CONCERN FOR SELF, BECOME EACH BEING  

107

THIS CONSCIOUSNESS EXISTS AS EACH BEING,

AND NOTHING ELSE EXISTS  

108

THIS CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE SPIRIT OF GUIDANCE OF EACH ONE.

BE THIS ONE      

Meditations on emptiness  

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SUPPOSE YOUR PASSIVE FORM TO BE AN EMPTY ROOM

WITH WALLS OF SKIN -- EMPTY   

110

GRACIOUS ONE, PLAY.

THE UNIVERSE IS AN EMPTY SHELL

WHEREIN YOUR MIND FROLICS INFINITELY   

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SWEET-HEARTED ONE, MEDITATE ON KNOWING AND NOT-KNOWING,

EXISTING AND NOT-EXISTING.

THEN LEAVE BOTH ASIDE THAT YOU MAY BE   

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ENTER SPACE, SUPPORTLESS, ETERNAL, STILL

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