Consciousness
A meditation scripts for probing the nature of consciousness
- Object awareness
- Focus on your object of choice (the breath, usually)
- Move your awareness to other objects, the body, sound, emotion etc.
- Rotate between objects at a regular but relaxed pace
- Non-choice awareness
- Try to open yourself up to many of these objects at once
- When you notice a sound, be aware that you noticed it
- The same for a breath, a thought, a physical sensation etc.
- Let the objects draw you to them
- Natural awareness
- Focus on your entire body
- Especially the back, feel the enclosed shape of your body
- Become aware of all sensations at once
- Everything you experience, sober or intoxicated, awake or asleep occurs as a perturbation of consciousness
- Merely a ripple on its surface
- Consciousness is like a bubble, containing all of your reality
- It floats weightlessly and deforms easily, always springing back
- Let yourself be aware of this, the container of all experience
- This bubble is not inside your body, or your head, though those objects appear within it
- It is the sum total of everything
- Let the boundaries between you and the universe dissolve
- They were never there in the first place
- Your consciousness is expansive, limitless and warm
- Let go of all focus and effort, just be with your consciousness
- Let go of your beliefs and opinions, they do not define you
- Let go of the pursuit of facts and truth, drop everything and sit in the space that remains
- When we find our awareness, there is no effort, there is no concentration, only relaxed expansiveness
- Sit, and if you once again become identified with thought, gently push your awareness out to encompass everything again
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