IN THE FIRST STAGE
‘There is identification with systems, methods, paths,
techniques, models, schools, and maps
Nisargadatta Mahar:
“I do not believe in spiritual paths ...
all paths lead to unreality ...”
Discard as not this not this.
‘THE SECOND STAGE
‘There is identification with, thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, feelings, perceptions,
sensations, the body, and the perceiver, For
Nisargadatta Maharaj, you are not the mind
Nisargadatta Maharaj:
“What you know about yourself came from
outside of you, therefore discard it.”
Maharaj states that the I Am, that sense of beingness,
is that which the mind is dependent upon
Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Hold onto the I Am, the sense of
beingness, discard all else.
By staying in the | Am, and discarding all else, there
is no longer a dependence upon thoughts, memori
emotions, associations, perceptions,
Then the stateless state of beingness, the sense of | Am
appears. All experiences are dependent on | Am or the
sense of beingness.
even a perceiver.Meditation
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, are you
perfect, imperfect or neither?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, what does
perfect or imperfect even mean?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, are you
worthy, worthless or neither?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, what does
worthy or worthless even mean?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, are you a
doer, a non-doer, or neither?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, what does
doing or not doing even mean?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, are you
adeauate. inadeauate or neither?Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, what does
adequate or inadequate even mean?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, are you a
knower, a not knower or neither?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, what does
a knower, or a not knower even mean?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, are you
alone, connected or neither?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, what does
alone or connected even mean?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, are you
complete, incomplete or neither?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, what does
complete or incomplete even mean?Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, are you
powerless, powerful or neither?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, what does
pawarlil or pawarless evenimnecn®
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, are you
lovable, loveless or neither?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
the body, or what you have been told, what does
loveable, loveless, or love even mean?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,
or the body:
NOTICE THE NO STATE STATE,
THE STATELESS STATE OF | AM.THE Turrp STAGE:
IDENTIFICATION WITH THE I AM
Realize that the sense of I Am or beingness is a
temporary state, a layer or veil made of consciousness
which is to be discarded as not this, not this.
As conditioned states dissolve, the underlying
consciousness is revealed.
The Yoga Vasistha, “Everything is consciousness nothing
exists outside of consciousness.”
Everything that appears to exist is made of
consciousness.
argadatta Maharaj Pg. 8:
“The important thing is consciousness.
You must give your full attention to the
consciousness itself. That is the process of
meditation; then all the secrets are revealed
to you by the consciousness.”THE FOURTH STAGE:
DissoLvinG THE “OF” ConsciousNEss
Meditation:
Dissolving the “OF”
Part One: Reviewing the | Am.
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a
perceiver, the body, or what you have been
told, are you crazy, sane or neither?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a
perceiver, the body, or what you have been
told, what does crazy or sane even mean?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a
perceiver, the body, or what you have been
told, are you out of control, in control, or
neither?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a
perceiver, or the body, what does out of
control or in control, even mean?
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a
perceiver, the body image, or what you have
been told, notice the no state state of the |Notice the quiet, vastness, or spaciousness of
the no state state of | Am without depending
‘on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations,
perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what
you have been told,
Part two: Realizing the Consciousness
Noticing the quiet, vastness, or spaciousness
of the no state state of | Am,
Without depending on thoughts, memory,
emotions, associations, perceptions, a
perceiver, or the body or what you have been
told,
NOTICE THAT YOU ARE CONSCIOUS “OF”
THE NO STATE OF | AM
ALLOW THE “OF” TO DISSOLVE AND JUST
BE THE CONSCIOUSNESS
Realize you are the consciousness and
that everything that arises and subsides is
dependent upon consciousness and is made
of consciousness which leads to the next
phase.‘THe Frrru STAGE
As the consciousness fades,
not only are you not the beingness,
you are not the | Am,
you are not the consciousness,
you are prior to consciousness, the Absolute.
Nisargadatta Maharaj called it the Parabrahman.
Five Currents
This is where certain aspects of five currents of
teaching meet,
Advaita: one substance, not two,
Vedanta: The end of the Vedas, neti neti, not this not
this. Neti Neti is the process of negating all names and
forms, (nama rupa), in order to realize the Self with a
Capital S.
Kashmir Shaivism: The Shiva Sutras, The disappearance of
the universe as something separate from consciousness.
Its reduction to sameness with consciousness, and its
assimilation with consciousness itself,
Buddhism: The Heart Sutra’
Emptiness is form, form is emptiness
Emptiness is Consciousness, Consciousness
Emptiness
Emptiness and Consciousness are two sides of one
coin.
Everything is Emptiness, Consciousness is condensed
emptiness