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