Hello, I AM the Great Divine Director.

I AM the Divine Director is with you now. Tune into my focus in your consciousness.

A feeling of EMPTINITY fills your consciousness. The white light becomes denser in your consciousness. Light blurs the boundaries of the usual perception of space. It’s as if there were no mirrors of consciousness, as if there were no forms, but there was only Light. And the Light again passes into the EMPTINESS. And the EMPTINITY is already felt throughout the UNITED SPACE: in the planetary Consciousness - EMPTINESS, in the space of the Universe - EMPTINESS. Here is Unity in the EMPTINESS, manifested by your consciousness, passing into the One Light and again into the Emptiness. These are simply different planes of Consciousness that operate in unity: active living Light, moving, creating and manifesting; and zero EMPTINESS – impersonal, permeating both being and non-being.

And everything that is is wonderful. And everything that exists will never disappear, because nothing has ever existed, your perception will simply change. Emptiness, Light and Love will erase the boundaries of the “I” in all its manifestations and only pure Consciousness will remain.

AND ONLY PURE CONSCIOUSNESS REMAINS.

IT IS ETERNITY and the word has no power over it,

And form has no power over him,

Form, word serve Eternity, realize Consciousness.

We all serve Eternity and are infinitely in love with Her. We all train Consciousness, understanding that Consciousness is eternal and invariably. We all live in Consciousness and by Consciousness, hearing and feeling the all-consuming depth, and we carry the TRUTH that there is nothing but ETERNITY, there is nothing but CONSCIOUSNESS, THERE IS NOTHING BUT GOD.

Previously, you had to look closely and activate the Light with mental efforts. Now it flows freely and simply, because the reception and transmission channels are set up and the work is proceeding harmoniously.

Thank the One God, the Great Divine Director, all the Teachers, all the Angels, Archangels and everyone who participates in the work.

Tune in to the work that is going on in the planetary consciousness.

EMPTINESS. Light comes from the Void. Light forms the planetary Consciousness, is identified with IT, reveals It and carries It. This is how Light manifests itself in form, being born from the Great Emptiness, and creating with Consciousness everything that is in the world, being an active, active part of Consciousness. So your thought-light actively creates the space around you in the world, creates your word, creates your life and the One Life. The thought of a harmonious transformation of collective consciousness, social life, the balance of nature and civilization... manifests itself in the Void, and manifests itself in the Light of planetary Consciousness. Thought gently passes through the subtlest “conductors” of planetary Consciousness. And so it reaches the minds of people, meets their consciousness, their thoughts and creates a gentle transformation. The continuous process continues, now you strengthen it with the Light of your Soul and the power of your thought. First of all, you feel the realizationharmonious transformation of the entire collective consciousness of humanity. Therefore, We often remind all students to tune in to the creative flow that is now operating in the planetary Consciousness.

Thank the One God, the Great Divine Director, all the Teachers, all the Angels, Archangels and everyone who participates in the work.

There is a reflection...

Feeling is meditation.

(Comes from the Void Light) Emptiness - (then) Light, manifested through concentrated Light source(Creator) - Law— Form — movement from the Center of Light into matter; movement from matter - to the Center, i.e. in Emptiness. Striving for EMPTINESS- returns to To the source And Pure Consciousness. The Emptiness itself makes it possible to get closer to pure Consciousness. Approaching EMPTINESS brings closer to pure Consciousness.

I AM the Great Divine Director thank you for participating in this lesson.

The Great Divine Director was with you in the united stream of Teachers.

We thank You, Teacher, accept our reciprocal Light and Love.

Introduction
In the beginning there was Nothing and it was Everything that was and will be forever and ever...

Description of the indescribable
An attempt to describe the indescribable is doomed to failure. Any description is a concept, an idea, a reflection of what is on the surface of the lake of the mind. The lake can be clean, deep, without ripples on the surface of the water. However, the reflection of the sun will always remain a reflection. To see the sun of essence, you need to move your attention from the lake to the sky. You need to go beyond vision. But who will come out and where? A lake will never become the sun, and the sun will never become a lake. Such is the inevitability of avoiding reality. Your true nature is neither the lake nor the sun. You are everything and nothing at the same time. Everything that is revealed is what happens to you, everything that is not revealed is something that has not happened yet. But all this exists in you inseparably and merged. And this That is Love, not opposed to love and hatred. That is Freedom beyond freedom and slavery from anything. That is Knowledge that knows itself without knowing...

The Grammar of the Inexpressible
I am first person, singular. When it arises from nothing, from emptiness, all the other faces appear: you, he, they, we... Before the first and only face appears, there is nothing. The appearance of a point in the void is a touch of Unity to oneself. It is an expression of love, awareness and freedom. But the point itself is an imaginary quantity, not real. A puncture in a space with zero dimensions. Nothing arises into nothing, giving birth to everything. Any form is essentially empty, and any emptiness is formed. These are two aspects of the one-time manifestation of the One. There is no beginning or end in the One. Everything is present and absent simultaneously “here and now,” every moment, which is essentially one. Because in unity there is no other.
When you see where this Self arises from, the personal self disappears. There remains only one impersonal Self, which is awareness.

Emptiness has man, not man emptiness
Man is not aware of emptiness. Emptiness is conscious of man. When the vector of attention is directed outward, to this and that, to here and there, to some time in the past and some time in the future, this is a mirage, an illusion, the appearance of existence. When turning attention one hundred and eighty degrees, the sphere of perception collapses into a central point, the point of awareness. This is getting to the point “here and now”, unfolding in the space of the eternal “everywhere and always”. This point is the subject or spark of God. Every object in the world carries this point. Having become this point, perception becomes aware of itself as “I-am-ness.”
And then the world is perceived as myriads of living stars shining in the void. This is the point of view of a subject immersed in emptiness. But in this position there still remains the seer (subject), the visible (object) and the process of seeing (awareness) itself. If you dive into the point itself, you go beyond the boundaries of the subject and object, moving to the impersonal (absence of a separate subject) level. Perception becomes Unity, where all names and forms, boundaries and differences are absent. It is a presence aware of itself as “I.”
This “I” is one for all, omnipresent, permeating the entire creation and at the same time existing beyond its boundaries.
This is something that never began and will never end.
It is an awareness beyond all awareness and simultaneously present in everything. In this there is no division into the seer, the visible and the process of seeing itself.
Attention paid to oneself disappears. This is not a state, it is the unspeakable and inexpressible beyond the boundaries of being and non-being, presence and absence.

Beyond name and form
Unity is that primordial presence, that emptiness, the silence from which everything came and to which everything returns. This is the foundation that is beyond the world and permeates the world, being simultaneously at every point of the universe.
This is the state that is described in Christianity: I and the Father are one. In Hinduism, Tat Tvam Asi, You are That, You are Brahman, You are God. This is what is indescribable and indescribable... What in the East is called Enlightenment. There is enlightenment, but there are no enlightened people.
Sometimes they talk about Awakening. Awakening is the realization that there is no awakened person, it is the realization of the absence of individual existence.
When consciousness moves to the impersonal level. This cannot be done because there is no one to do it. Personality, body, soul, consciousness have not disappeared anywhere. They remained, only the rigid attachment to them disappeared. Every particle of the universe has this nature.
You are a sphere, the center of which is nowhere, and the surface is everywhere. There is beauty in this. Unity is a very simple state, without any exaltation. Who you truly are is beyond names and forms.

Out of time and out of space
For the mind, for every “yes” there is a “no”, for every “better” there is a “worse”, for every “I love” there is a “hate”. Only that which surpasses them, without contradicting them, is Reality.
Pleasure - suffering, active - passive state - all this is a pendulum, swinging in various forms of manifestation. The question is how to find that constant point about which this pendulum swings. It is invariably new every moment, if it is appropriate to talk about time here. It is always here, if it is possible to talk about space.

Unity Trap
The trap is that a person becomes attached to some state and wants to make it permanent. This is a kind of hook on the idea of ​​eternal high (bliss).
But the fact is that awareness, enlightenment, is not a state or an experience. Any state is a state of mind. All qualities and aspects of the mind are changeable. What has a beginning has an inevitable end; what is found is sure to be lost. Knowledge of one's true nature is not connected with the mind; it lies beyond the boundaries of understanding. This knowledge is beyond time and space.
When glimpses of the experience of unity occur, the personality seeks to appropriate this experience: it is I who experience awareness. And in this case, awareness itself begins to appear for the individual in the form of an object that one can have or not have. An illusion arises that this awareness can be controlled, put into service, as the old man did in the fairy tale about the goldfish. This is similar to if the reflection in the mirror imagines that it can control the person looking in the mirror, control him.

Reflection and original
When you know that you are that from where the thought “I” comes, then you will understand the source of Being, Bliss, Awareness. In this case, thoughts will continue to appear and disappear, but there will no longer be identification with them. You will perceive everything that happens against the backdrop of Unity, with the knowledge that you are not a body, a thought, a personality.
What comes is sure to go, what arises is sure to disappear. When there is no identification with the thought, the problem disappears. Because any problem is a product of the mind, an image, a picture that reflects reality. And reflection is not reality.
Look at your reflection in the mirror. Who are you real or a reflection in the mirror. When you consider yourself a reflection, you plunge into the relative world of appearances. And then, from the position of appearance, a shadow, a mirage, a reflection tries to comprehend its essence. Can what is not in reality comprehend what is?

Indifference and indifference of Unity
You are not going anywhere, neither forward nor backward. There is no spiritual development. There is only the dissolution of the Ego. Awareness cannot develop. It either exists or it doesn’t. But the whole question is who doesn’t have it? In appearance, personality, phantom? But appearance itself is an illusion. What is not cannot become what is. And what exists does not care about its existence. It simply is.
The True Self is not concerned with existence and projections. It is indifferent to everything, to every particle of Being. Indifferently - without discrimination: I will treat this particle well, and I will treat this particle poorly. The sun shines on everyone without distinguishing merits and merits. It is indifferent to every particle. Indifferent - all souls for him are equal, equal and equivalent. It shines with love equally for everyone. For him, all projections are equivalent. Then who worries, who seeks his true Self? Is it really a false self? There are no two selves. I am one and indivisible. Otherwise it’s schizophrenia.
Reflections of reality should not be confused with reality itself. Whose reflection? My! But I am not a reflection. The mind, body, ego are just reflections of the Self. You just need to shift your attention from appearances to reality. But again, who is able to carry out this translation? All the same I, which is present in everything, in every particle of Existence. God's mercy is always and everywhere.

Dot on a piece of paper
Draw a dot on a piece of paper and ask: what do you see? Full stop...
The whole problem is not in this point, but in your attention, in its collapse and attachment to what you see. In fact, you are holding a piece of paper in your hand, on which everything is - just dots. Leaf – unity, dots – diversity. But the leaf is One. Some look at the sky and see clouds, they do not see the sky. Attention focused on a problem itself creates this problem out of nothing. Others, spiritually advanced, do not see clouds, they see the shining of stars and hear the voices of teachers from Orion. But no one notices the bottomless empty sky. And this is just a habit of attention, developed over millions of years. You breathe air and don’t notice it. You live in a space of love and don’t notice it. You wallow in this and only suffer from the lack of love.

Sticking problem
A person, being under the cover of illusion, seeks peace outside. He believes that by finding and acquiring something in outer space, it is possible to obtain peace. There is someone or something that can give us peace or take it away.
Experiences and states come and go. There is nothing bad and nothing good about this. You want, desire something, there is no problem in it, enjoy it and be happy. The problem exists in getting stuck on one or another experience, when you want to hold on to it, control it, so that it will always be there.
If you realize that everything that has a beginning also has an end, then there is no problem.
Let what comes come and what goes go. It’s like breathing, you can’t live only on inhalation or only on exhalation.
Any experience, any experience, spiritual or ordinary, will definitely dissolve. Experiences from this world, enjoyment of earthly blessings, as well as enjoyment of heavenly blessings, spiritual gifts, not of this world - all this is transitory, not permanent, relative. And therefore, you shouldn’t hold on to them, stick to them and create a tragedy when they leave. Any experience, state is not eternal. What is true nature is not experience. It never began and it will never end.

Unity wants nothing
Unity desires nothing. But it is from it that desires, thoughts, feelings, emotions, the whole world, imaginable and inconceivable, arise.
This means that no matter what arises in you, you can definitely remain calm. Problems arise when you identify yourself with something and consider it to be you.
You can be filled with thoughts and, at the same time, remain Silence.

Peekaboo
A person, or rather his mind, his ego, longs for a golden key, thanks to which he will open a secret door to the land of happiness. But the secret is that no key will help, because there has never been and never will be a door through which one could enter.
This door, this border exists only in our imagination, in our mind. And the door, and the key, and the land of happiness itself is all “I”. “I” is the very beginning (if there ever was such a beginning), this is the search to discover oneself.
It's a game of hide and seek with yourself. The question is: who is looking? Who is this consciousness looking for? And is it possible to find something if there is only one?

Milk
Everything you need will come, and what you don’t need will go away. So there's nothing to worry about. This happens easily and spontaneously through not doing. This is not done, it happens. Because in Unity there is no doer. Existence cannot be controlled, Existence can only be.
Unity is not a cash cow. It won't give you a drop of milk. It cannot be used for the needs of the ego. In this sense it is completely useless. You can become milk yourself, the milky way, the river of milk. But then the one who craves milk disappears. There is only one milk left.

There is no root cause in the One Whole
It is its own cause and effect and at the same time is beyond these categories. Unfolding the universal game, the One is in space and time and at the same time in eternity and limitlessness.
The eternal strives to be embodied in space and time, and the temporal strives to comprehend its source in eternity. Any emptiness is formed, and any form is empty.
Who is the one who gives all this meaning and content?

Finding yourself
The True Self, the Emptiness, the Silence, the Silence has always been here. A person seeks this while being in it. Even more than that, being this.
The experience of the true Self cannot be the result of any effort or practice.
Any effort throws a person away from himself. What a person is does not generate any effort. Strength is between two different potentials. But in Unity there is no difference, there are no two. There is only one thing - Emptiness, Silence, Silence. Then how does power arise from this Emptiness, something other than emptiness arise?
How did such an infinite variety of things and forces come from one single point?
These are all questions that you should ask your heart and get an answer.

Two news: good and bad
For a person seeking God, there are two news: one good and one bad.
The good news is that God's mercy is already here. She was, is and will only be here and now. It does not exist either in the past or in the future. Everything is only in this moment.
The bad news is that what you've been looking for for years, you'll never find. Because what you are looking for is the one who is looking for. To find God you have to give up the search and just be who you are.
In other words, there is two news for the freedom seeker, good and bad.
The good thing is that you are already free. The bad thing is that you will never understand it. It is not possible to understand with the mind what is not intended to be understood. This is equivalent to the fact that the shadow could understand the one who casts this shadow, or the reflection in the mirror believes that it understands and is the one who looks in the mirror. Freedom cannot be understood, but one can be Freedom. And when there is Freedom, it does not seek Freedom, because it knows itself. But he knows not with his mind, but with his heart.

Being without concepts
A clear answer can only come to a clear mind, a mind free of thoughts.
When the mind becomes quiet, then it is possible to hear the response of the heart. It is possible to see the sun inside.
The noise of thoughts born in the mind obscures the truth born in the heart.
Clouds of thoughts obscure the sun of essence. But this does not mean that there is no sun. It still shines with the eternal light of Being. But even the sun does not last forever. The sun shines in the space of Being. Entering the heart of the sun, you merge with the space of the One. Having removed from this the category of space that exists only in the mind, you realize that you are That which is.

Time concept
The birth and appearance of the world, the universe, is associated with the category of time. That there was a time when nothing happened, then something happened and everything began to be, therefore it all has an end. This is the concept of time having a past – present – ​​future. Man absorbed this concept with his mother's milk. Time is a mental concept that occurs only in the human mind. After all, in reality there is neither past nor future, there is only one moment “here and now”, which includes “everywhere and always”.
Imagine another concept in which there is no category of time. Imagine that there was no beginning, and therefore there will be no end, ever. Everything that was, is and will always be and everything is One, located here, everywhere and nowhere. And this one thing exists simultaneously at rest and in motion, like a photon of light, which has corpuscular (rest) and wave (movement) properties at the same time.

Fight fire with fire
Lack of time is just a concept. This concept is just a concept, an idea to eliminate the previous concept, like knocking out a wedge with a wedge. When the wedge is knocked out of your mind, there is no longer any need to rush around with the second wedge like a sack. Try to be in the world and not of this world. Try to be what you are, without cutting or cutting off anything from yourself. There is no spirit without matter and no matter without spirit. But man is neither spirit nor matter, he is present in them, but is not them. The mutual transitions of spirit into matter and matter into spirit are just the breath of the One who you are. You breathe, but you are not the breath, you are the one who breathes Unity.
“I and the Father are One,” “what was, is what will be” - it’s all about the same thing, the One...

Our whole life is a game
How did Everything come from Nothing? In Nothing there is nothing and everything is. Nothing is like a two-sided medal, one side is Emptiness, the other is Fullness. One side is peace, the other is movement. There are not two separate aspects such as rest and movement. There is one thing - rest-movement.
There is no being and non-being, there is being-non-being (Sky of being).
If there is existence, then there must also be non-existence. Being in this case appears as that which is, and non-existence as that which is not. But what is not there is also present in Consciousness as a fact of absence, possible, potential appearance, remaining unaffected by it. The Absolute, God, the True Self absorbs both the presence and absence of anything. “Yes and no” appear, develop and disappear in it.
Is there an illusion or not? Yes and no. Walking through the desert, you see a mirage. Does a mirage exist or not? It exists as a fact of presence in vision, but it is absent as reality.
Likewise, man lives in illusion, identifying himself with the body-mind-ego, a mirage existing in the consciousness of the One. Is this structure real? Of course, but only as a fact of reflection of the One. Any reflection is not the original, it is only a projection. The original can exist without its projection, but the projection cannot. Similarly, the Source cannot be understood with the mind; one can only believe in the Source... Knowledge of one’s True nature is carried out by the no-mind. The reflection will never go beyond its limits. It will never reach its source. How can it be that something is not there? From Nothing, in which everything is and nothing is at the same time.

Sun and shadow
Walking from the sun, a person sees only a shadow in front of him (body-mind-ego). Turning towards the sun, he leaves his shadow behind. Having become sunlight, he loses his shadow. Having realized himself as the sun, he realizes his Completeness. Having dived into the heart of the sun, he realizes the Emptiness.
From Emptiness, Silence, Silence “is born” an illusion that does not exist. Unity hides under the veil of appearances, playing hide and seek with itself. And this game will be eternal because it never began. The actors, the director, the audience, the play, the performance itself are all One.
You only think that you exist, but you are not... The shadow is not reality. And you live by this and give her all the reins. The shadow is the image of you, but who are you? When you turn your attention to the Sun, feel that you do not know yourself at all. Just a shift in the focus of attention and immediately a feeling of being filled with light comes. When you are the Sun, you have everything, everything you need for happiness here and now. When you disidentify with the shadow, it’s as if you are losing something, some part of yourself, saying goodbye to the illusion, and at the same time finding everything... This is generosity, redundancy, completeness and light. You are the breath that is yours and no one else’s, it cannot be described in words... It permeates all of Existence, remaining unaffected by it.

Basic error
The basic mistake is to think that you are separate from everything else. There is me and that which is me and there is something else, alien, that is not me. You identify yourself with the body: physical, astral, mental, spiritual, etc. The size of the prison and the cells are growing. You move from one cell to another, more spacious one. This chamber can even occupy the entire Universe, but you will still remain unfree. Any shape, any volume limits space in Space. How to get out of this prison? Very simple. Realize that you are not the body. And not even a spirit. Better yet, realize the one who is aware of it. Let go of clinging to ideas and concepts. Abolish all boundaries dividing Unity into this and that. Even the very idea of ​​Unity should be discarded, because... unity takes place only in the presence of plurality. When only Unity remains, then even it disappears into what is, because. there is no other.

Point and Void
A point appears in the Empty - I. The Empty and the point are already two, already separate. And this is already too much for Unity alone. Now the point will strive to cognize the Emptiness, and the Emptiness will realize itself through this point. The whole Universe, the whole world appeared from this point - I.
From this thought - “I am.” Bring your awareness back to the point. Turn this point with zero parameters onto the Void, realize the unified nature of the point and the void, and then the problem of separation is resolved. Emptiness is present at every point in space. Each point is a son of the Void. And the son and the father are One. Now all that remains is to eliminate the category of space and the dilemma is solved.
Space consists of points. But a point is a puncture in space with zero parameters. Those. in fact there is no point. Then the space consisting of points (that which does not exist) also does not exist. And then what remains is that unspeakable and incomprehensible thing that you are.
Go through the point and realize that you are not there, and the whole world is inside. Then who are you who is not? Packing yourself into different images, opinions, stereotypes, complexes - this is a limitation of the Emptiness. The main thing is to understand and accept, to believe that you really are THIS. If you realize that the personality is not you, but a shadow, then it will not cause any problems. To God - what is God's, to Caesar - what is Caesar's. And you reduce all Unity to the shadow, and then toil, dreaming of freedom and love. Isn't this paradoxical?..

God
People invented God and endowed him with human qualities - mercy, forgiveness, love, God's punishment, etc. These are all concepts, ideas. The mind is like a moth, fluttering here and there. He is never at rest. God is not an idea; he will never fit into the categories of the mind.
If a person claims that God is within, this is also a delusion. God is neither above nor below, he is neither outside nor inside. Any division is a di-phenomenon (Di-yavol) of the mind. God is everywhere and nowhere at the same time, it is everything that exists without concepts or ideas about it.
God cannot be experienced or felt. God is not an object or even a subject who experiences all this. God, present and participating in all this, is absolutely indifferent to what is happening.
God is not divided into parts. God is what you are.
Everything else is your imagination, funny or sad pictures, images. Images that happen in God. An image is an obsession, a semblance. Who creates these images? You.
You are a god. When identification of consciousness with a fixed image occurs, consciousness forgets its limitlessness and becomes the likeness of God. Any similarity is not the original. Moreover, this original has neither a name nor a form.
There is no intermediary between anything. There is no God in this world except yourself. If you know yourself, then even God disappears. Nothing remains without name and form. God does not do anything, he is inseparable from you. God simply exists. God does not give anything to anyone and does not take anything away from anyone, because he is one and only. Nothing can be added to it and nothing can be taken away, everything is in it, it is in everything and beyond everything, because it is infinite. God does not evolve because he is perfect. God does not know love, because he himself is mercy and love. He doesn't worry about it. The fact that God created man in his own image and likeness means that you and the Father (Unity) are One.

Undivided Heart
It is impossible to find yourself because you have never lost yourself. It is also impossible to remember yourself, because you never forgot yourself... You didn’t forget, because you didn’t know. It is not possible to know yourself. Who knows and who does he know? If so, then there are already two of you. Bifurcation is the tricks of the devil. You can only be what you are. Any division exists only in the mind. The heart never divides anything, it is always in Unity.
Get out of the vicious circle of rebirths. Take a step towards yourself. Realize yourself as one who was never born and therefore will never die.

I left myself...
I left myself, what an absurdity
And this must happen.
It's better to be than to seem
And it’s better not to be,
To be the one who dreams...

Ocean and wave
Who thinks?
Silence…
But silence does not mean absence of thoughts. The ocean is unthinkable without waves. Waves come and go like thoughts. This is the direct functioning of the Ocean. When the ocean is completely calm, it exists without waves. When the wind rises, they come.
Silence is always there, whether you are thinking or not. You don't have to practice something for years or sit in contemplation. One moment is enough to realize that you are not a wave, but an Ocean. You are the Silence in which everything happens. And then it is possible to realize that there is no one (subject) who is aware of Silence. Silence itself is awareness, aware of itself as awareness or unawareness. Awareness is not understanding. Awareness, Silence, Freedom, Love - these are all different names for what is One. And then you understand that you are That which is One. You have always been what you are and you will always be forever and ever. Amen.

Primordial perfection
The True Self is perfect, it doesn’t need anything. Because everything is in it and it is in everything. The body-mind-personality is always missing something. It is not self-sufficient, it is flawed. It is damaged because it has separated itself from the One Whole and now It is trying to regain this integrity and Unity.
Paradox. The wave will never connect with the Ocean because they were never separated. They are one. Therefore, the only thing to be realized is Unity. This cannot be taken away from you and cannot be added to, because there is no one else who could do it. You are One and One.

Author Mira
The whole world arises from the “I” and it transcends this world. The world is SECONDARY to the “I”. This “I” I am the author of the world, its creator. “I” has no reason. It creates everything from the Void without putting any effort into it. To be in the world and not of this world is what you are.
I creates everything without being attached to anything, because I am one with everything. What is attached to something, stuck on some fragment, loses the integrity of the picture. And he considers himself caught in the trap of limitation. Being essentially Freedom, it comes from the fact that it is captive to something. Paradox. What can be done? Nothing…

Untold Mystery
Individuality is a spark of God, a point in the space of Silence, the Kingdom of God, in Unity. In the beginning there was the Word... This WORD came out of the point. This is a trick of the One. There was no Beginning, just as there will be no End. This is the Path of realizing your true nature, the path that does not exist. The path is possible only if there are two points, but the point is One. And this point is You. And then the Spark of God disappears in the light of love, or rather becomes this unquenchable light, shining in the Darkness of ignorance, which does not exist.
Where there is light, there is no darkness. But this light transcends this duality of presence-absence of something. This inexpressible light is in everything and everywhere, remaining essentially nothing and nowhere.
How can nothing be everything at the same time? This mystery, incomprehensible to the mind, is revealed in the heart of the One, because it has never been hidden anywhere.

Current Witness
I am not in Silence, it itself is Silence. To find the Self, you need to leave the mind alone. You don't need to do anything for this. Attention from contemplating clouds as objects passes into the state of the subject in which all this happens - the Sky, as a living being. But who is aware of this Heaven? The awareness of the aware eliminates ignorance. I am an active witness. It is outside the phenomenon, it is in the essence of the phenomenon, i.e. creator and contemplator in one person at the same time.

Awareness is life-giving
If there is some change within you, it comes from awareness, but not from effort. If there is effort, then there is ego. Awareness cannot be practiced. Because awareness does nothing. Nevertheless, the process of awareness itself enlivens everything it touches.

Desolation is a gift from Heaven
Where there is emptiness, God dwells there.
Try not to hold on to anything. Empty your mind. You can throw everything out of your mind. But the stumbling block remains the thought of “I”. The thought of self-ownership, managing your household. This single thought of “I” occupies the entire space and God cannot enter there. The place is busy.
With the disappearance of clinging to this last thought, the “I” disappears. Space becomes identical to itself and in this the nature of the Emptiness is manifested. It is not connected with either space or time. It opens up on its own.
Emptying occurs naturally, like bowel movements. One Zen master answered the question: HOW to achieve devastation? Answered: HOW, HOW... poop and wash it off...

The holy place is sometimes empty
They say: A holy place is never empty. In fact, it’s the other way around, it is emptiness that is the place of holiness and God’s mercy. As long as the space is occupied by something, it is impossible to put something new in it. But the paradox is that the emptiness, holiness and mercy of God is always and everywhere present. No matter how much you clutter up the empty space, the emptiness will remain unaffected by anything. Every point in space is an inexhaustible source of power, knowledge, and love.

"No entrance for unauthorized people!"
Enter the starting point. The point is the door to the space of Being. On this door there is an instruction: “No outsiders allowed!” An outsider is always aloof from oneself. How to accept that you are nobody and your name is nothing. How to accept yourself as you are. After all, I always wanted to be someone, and, of course, every day it gets better and better. Try to leave everything, become empty and go through the zero point into the space of the Void, into Nothingness...
Who was Nothing will become Everything!
Was there anyone at all?..
And in response - Silence.

Conclusion
In the end there was Nothing and it was Everything that was and will be forever and ever...

P. Ovchinnikov

October 25, 1974

When thought-objects disappear,

the thinking subject also disappears,

just like when the mind disappears -

objects disappear.

Things are objects because of the subject,

the mind is like this because of things.

Understand the connection between these two

and the original reality -

unity of emptiness.

In this emptiness two are indistinguishable -

and each contains the whole world.

If you don't make a distinction

between the rough and the subtle,

you will not be tempted

prejudice and opinion.

The world exists because of you - you create it, you are the creator. Every single being creates the world around itself - it depends on its mind. The mind may be illusory, but it is creative - it creates dreams. And it is up to you to create hell or heaven.

If you leave this world, you cannot leave it. Wherever you go, you will create the same world again, for the world continuously emanates from you, just as leaves emanate from a tree.

You do not live in the same world, you cannot live, because you do not have similar minds. Right next to you, someone may be living in heaven and you may be living in hell, but you think that you are living in the same world. How can you live in the same world when the minds are different?

So the first thing to understand is that you cannot leave the world unless the mind has disappeared. They are connected, they depend on one another, they create a vicious circle. If there is a mind... And every mind is always a special mind. When the mind is no longer special, when it becomes mind with a capital "U", then it is no longer mind, it has become consciousness. The mind is always a special mind and has a special fragrance around it - this is your world.

The mind creates the world and then the world creates the mind, helps the mind remain the same. It's a vicious circle. But the source is in the mind, the world is just a by-product. The mind is substantial, the world is only its shadow. And you cannot destroy the shadow, but everyone is trying to destroy it.

If this wife does not suit you, you think that the other wife will. You are trying to change the world, but you yourself are the same. You will simply turn the new wife into an exact repetition of the previous one. You will create again, for the wife will be just a screen.

And you will be surprised; The experience of people who have been married many times is truly strange. A man who has been married many times realizes this fact and asks: “Why is it that in such a huge world I always stumble over the same type of woman? Even by chance it seems impossible! Over and over again!

The problem is not with the woman - the problem is with the mind; the mind is again attracted to the same type of woman, again creates the same connection, again finds the same mess and the same hell.

And the same thing happens in everything you do. Do you think you will live happily in the palace? You are not right! Who is going to live in the palace? You will live there. If you are not happy in your hut, you will not be happy in the palace. Who will live in the palace? The palace does not exist outside of you.

If you can live happily in a hut, you can live happily in a palace, because you are creating peace around you. On the other hand, just as the hut irritates you, so the palace will irritate you - even more, because it is a big thing. It will become hell, it will be the same: more decorated, but decorated hell is not heaven. And even if you are forcibly thrown into heaven, you will try to find a way out or create your own hell there.

I heard about one man, a great businessman, a clothing manufacturer, who died and somehow, due to some technical error, went to heaven. He met his old partner there. The old partner was as sad as he was on earth, so the businessman asked, “What does this mean? Are you already unhappy in heaven?

The partner said, “It’s great here, but I personally prefer Miami.”

And the second one, a few days later, also came to a similar conclusion. They became partners there again and wanted to open a clothing company.

The same thing happens wherever you go, for you are the world. You create the world around you, and then the world helps the mind that created it. The son helps the father, the son helps the mother, your shadow helps the substance. Then the mind becomes even stronger and you again create the same world according to the same pattern. Where to start transformation? How to change?

If you look, your first glance will tell you that you need to change the world, because it is so obvious around you. Change it! And this is what you have been doing for many lifetimes: continuously changing the world, changing this and that, changing houses, bodies, wives, husbands, friends - changing, but never looking closely at the fact that you remained the same. How can you change the world?

That is why a false tradition of renunciation has appeared all over the world: to run away from home and go to a monastery; escape from the bazaar and go to the Himalayas; run away from the world. You can easily go to the Himalayas, but how can you escape from yourself? You will create the same world there - the same! It may be a miniature world, it may not be so huge, but you will do the same thing. You are the same - how can you do anything else?

Deeper insight will reveal to you that if you change the mind, then the world changes. Then wherever you are, another world opens up. Go deeper and then you will understand that if you really want to be outside the world that surrounds you, then you have to drop the mind, because no matter how beautiful the world is, sooner or later it will become a burden and you will get tired of it.

Even if it is heaven, you will start looking for hell, because the mind needs to change. He cannot live in the eternal, he cannot live in the immutable, because he craves new curiosities, new excitement. It is impossible for the mind to stop time, to remain timeless.

This is why the mind cannot live here and now, because it is not part of time - it never changes, it is immutable. You can say that it is unchangeable - it is eternal. It just is what it is. Nothing happens there - it's empty.

Buddha named her sunyata, absolutely empty - nothing happens there, no one comes, no one leaves. There is no one there, because if there is someone, then this or that will happen. The mind cannot live in the eternal now. The mind wants change and continues to hope - continues to hope against everything: the whole situation is hopeless, but the mind continues to hope.

I heard...

Mulla Nasreddin remained unemployed for many, many years, because he wanted to be an actor, but had no talent. But every day he punctually went to his agent. He knocked on the door hopefully, entered the office and asked: “Did something happen? Am I registered somewhere?

The agent always said the same thing: “I can’t do anything, there’s no way.”

Days, weeks, and years passed, and the mullah’s knocking became familiar. Regardless of the season, regardless of the weather, good or bad, the agent was sure of one thing: the mullah would come. And he asked again with hope, and the agent again said the same thing: “Nasreddin, I can’t do anything, there’s no way.”

Then one day another knock was heard, a little sad, and when the mullah entered, the agent was even surprised, he was so sad. Mulla said: “Listen, don’t sign me up anywhere for two weeks, because I’m going on vacation.”

This is how the mind functions: it continues to hope - not for many years, but for many lives! You knock on the same door with the same question and desire - and there is always a “No”. What did you get through your mind other than these “No?”

Yes never comes in this way, cannot come. The mind is a futile effort, it is like a desert - nothing grows on it. Nothing can grow, but he continues to hope. Even the desert dreams and dreams of beautiful gardens, flowing rivers, streams and waterfalls. Even the desert dreams - and these are dreams of the mind.

A person must be vigilant. There is no longer any need to waste time, no need to knock on the agent's door. You have lived wisely enough - you have achieved nothing through it. Isn't this the right time to be alert and conscious?

Of course, you have accumulated many miseries and many hells, but if you call them achievements, great. You have collected a lot of worries, disappointments, and wherever you move wisely, something happens wrong.

Mulla Nasreddin's son went to school. The teacher was talking about geography, she taught and explained about the shape of the Earth. She then asked Mullah Nasrudin's son, "What is the shape of the Earth?"

He remained silent, so to prompt him to answer, she asked, “Is she flat?”

The son replied: “No.”

She became hopeful and said, “Then it’s a round ball?”

Nasrudin's son replied: "No."

Then she was surprised. She said, “There are two possibilities: either it’s flat or it’s round, and you say no in both cases.” What is your guess?

The son replied: “My dad said she was crooked!”

Everything is crooked for the mind; not because everything is crooked, but because the mind looks that way. Whatever is perceived through the mind becomes crooked. In the same way, when you put a straight thing, a straight stick, into the water, you suddenly see that the water medium has done something - it is no longer straight. You take it out of the water - it's straight again. Put it in the water again...

And you know that the stick remains straight even in water, but your eyes still tell you that it is not straight. You can take it out and put it down a hundred times. Even if you know well that the stick remains straight, the aquatic environment again gives you the false impression that the stick is not straight.

You have learned many, many times that misfortune is created by the mind, but again you become a victim. The mind creates unhappiness. He is unable to create anything else, because he cannot face reality - he can only dream, that is the only ability of the mind. He can only dream, and dreams cannot be satisfied, because whenever they come before reality, they are shattered.

You live in a glass house; you cannot face reality. Whenever reality sets in, your house is broken and many houses you have lived in have been broken. You carry in your mind their ruins, the melancholy that is the result. And it made you angry, irritable.

Try one and you will find that it is bitter. And others have the same feeling from you - everyone is bitter. Come closer and everything becomes bitter; stay at a distance and everything looks great. But come closer and everything becomes bitter, because when you come closer minds penetrate each other and everything becomes crooked - then nothing is straight.

This should be realized as your experience, not as a theory - mine or Sosana's. Sosan can't help, and I can't - it has to become a phenomenon experienced by you yourself. Once experienced, it becomes Truth, and then many things begin to change - then you drop the mind.

And when the mind is dropped, all worlds disappear; when the mind is dropped, objects disappear - then they are no longer objects. Then you don't know where you end and where things begin: then there are no boundaries - boundaries disappear.

At first you feel as if everything has become cloudy, but little by little you settle into a new phenomenon that comes from lack of mind. Then there are stars, but they are part of you, they are not objects anymore. There are flowers and trees, but they bloom within you, not outside. Then you live with unity.

The barrier is broken - the barrier was your mind. Then, for the first time, there is no world, for the world means the sum of objects. For the first time there is a universe, and the universe means one. Remember the word "uni". You have no right to call it a universe, a universe. Don’t call it a “universe” - for you it is a “multiverse”, many worlds, not just one - it has not yet become one. But when the mind falls away, the worlds disappear.

There are no objects: the boundaries mix and meet each other - the tree becomes the rock, the rock becomes the sun, the sun becomes the star, the star becomes the woman you love, and everything meets and mixes with one another. And you are not there separately. You are in this, pulsating at the very heart. Then this is the universe.

The mind falls away, objects disappear - the source of dreams has disappeared. What did you do? You tried to get a better dream and, of course, in vain. The whole effort of the mind is to get a better dream, but do not think that the mind can give you a better dream. A dream is a dream. Even the best, it will not be satisfactory - it cannot give you deep satisfaction. A dream is a dream.

If you feel thirsty, you need real water, not dream water.

If you are hungry, you need real material bread, not dream bread. For a few minutes you may be able to deceive yourself, but for how long?

This happens every night: you are hungry and the mind creates a dream that you are eating - eating delicacies. For a few minutes it's good, even for a few hours it's good, but for how long? Can you stay in this dream forever?

It helps you sleep - you don't wake up. Otherwise, hunger will wake you up and you will have to get up and go eat. This helps: you can continue to sleep, feeling that you are eating - there is no need to go anywhere. But in the morning you will know that your mind has deceived you.

Your whole life is like a dream, and you replace reality with dream objects. So every day everything is shattered, every day you are faced with reality, because reality keeps breaking out from here and there - you cannot escape it. A dream is a very fragile thing: reality keeps knocking on it and breaking it.

And this is good: for your own good, reality destroys your dreams, breaks them into pieces. But you start picking up those pieces again and creating new dreams. Give it up! You have already done this enough - and nothing has been achieved. Enough of this!

If you understand that dreaming must stop, the world of objects disappears: there will be a world, but not of objects. Then everything becomes alive, everything becomes subjective.

This is the meaning of the saying of religious people who say that everything is God. What they're saying? God is just a metaphor. There is no one who would sit somewhere in the sky, control, manage, invent. God is just a metaphor. The metaphor is that things in the world are not objects, they are persons. Deep down they are subjective. Everything is alive and pulsating, and this pulsation is not a partial process - this pulsation is the pulsation of the Whole.

Of course, you feel the heartbeat, at the heart, near the heart. But if you think that the beating is only in the heart, then you are mistaken - the whole body is pulsating. The heart is only an indicator; the whole body pulsates. That's why when the heart stops, the body is dead. In fact, it was not the heart that was pulsating, but the whole body was pulsating through the heart - the heart was only an indicator.

You are pulsating, but the whole is pulsating through you - you are just an indicator, a heart. The universe pulsates and beats through you. There is no you - there is the universe.

And the universe is not a sum of objects - it is subjectivity. She exists as a person, she is alive, conscious. This is not a mechanical organization - it is an organic unity.

Now try to understand Sosan's words:

When thought-objects disappear, the thinking subject also disappears, Just as when the mind disappears, objects disappear. Things are objects because of the subject, the mind is such because of things.

The things around you exist because of you - you attract them. If you feel hell around you, then it is you who attracted it. Don't get angry with him and don't start fighting him: it's useless. You attracted, you invited, you made it, and now your desires are satisfied - everything you needed is around you. And then you start fighting and getting angry - because you have succeeded!

Always remember that everything that happens around you is rooted in the mind - the mind is always the cause. He is a projector, and outside there are only screens - you are projecting yourself. If you feel it is ugly, then it is the mind. If you feel that everything coming from the mind is like hell and a nightmare, then drop the mind. Work smart - don't work with the screen, don't color it or change it. Work smart.

But there is one problem, because you think that you are the mind, then how can you drop it? Because you feel that you can throw everything away, change everything, repaint everything, embellish it, reorganize it, but how can you throw yourself away? This is the root of all problems. You are not the mind, you are outside the mind. You have become identical, that's for sure, but you are not the mind.

And that is the purpose of meditation: to give you a little glimpse that you are not the mind. Even if the mind stops, you are still there. On the contrary, there are more of you - you are overflowing with being. When the mind stops, it is as if the drain that was constantly draining you has stopped working. Suddenly you are filled with energy. You feel bigger!

Even if for a single moment you realize that there is no mind, but “I am seven,” you have reached the deep core of Truth. Then it will be easy to drop the mind. You are not the mind, otherwise how can you drop yourself? First identification must be dropped, then the mind can be dropped.

Gurdjieff's whole method is how to become non-identified. Next time a desire comes, look at it. Say within yourself, “Okay, I’ll watch this mind move.” And you will feel the distance - you are looking at him. Who is this spectator, this observer? And desire moves and creates dreams.

Sometimes you can forget, sometimes you can become one with desire. Gather yourself again, look at the desire again - the desire moves on its own. It is as if a cloud has entered: a thought has risen in the sky of your being. Just look at her, watch her. And remember: if you can be non-identified even for a split second - the desire is there, and you are here, and there is a distance - then suddenly enlightenment occurs, light comes to you.

Now you know that the mind works on its own - it is a mechanism and you can drop it. You don't have to use it, you can use it - you are a master, not a slave. The mechanism is put in its place, it is no longer the master. Then discarding is possible. When you are different from this, only then is discarding possible.

Meditation, witnessing, sitting silently and looking at the mind will be of great help. Not violence - just sitting and staring. Don't do much - just watch the birds flying in the sky. Just lie down on the ground and watch without doing anything, it doesn’t matter: where they fly is none of your business - they fly on their own.

Remember: thoughts are also like birds - they move on their own. Sometimes it happens that thoughts enter your sky from the people around you; sometimes your thoughts enter their heaven. That's why sometimes you feel that with some person you suddenly become sad; with someone else you suddenly feel energized, happy and pleased. Just looking at someone, being near them, changes something in your mood.

This happens even in places: you go into the house and suddenly despondency attacks you. You go to another house and suddenly you feel light, as if you had wings: you can fly, you are weightless. You walk into a crowd and you are no longer yourself - something has changed. You enter another crowd - something has changed again.

This is the basis satsanga: to be with the Master who has no thoughts. Just be with him, and someday his no-thought, his no-mind will knock on your door. At some point - it can't be controlled - you just have to wait, you just have to pray, wait and watch. It cannot be forced, for it is no-thought. A thought is a thing, it can be thrown at you. No-thought is not a thing; it cannot be abandoned.

Thought has its own movement and rotation. Whenever you are around a person who has too many thoughts, he fills you with his thoughts. He will empty his mind into you just by being near you; whether he speaks or not does not matter. Thoughts, like sparks, continuously pour from his head around - you catch them.

And sometimes you even realize that it is not your thought, but when it comes, you are filled with it, you become identified even with it. It is not your anger: someone else was angry and you feel something inside you. Someone hated - and hatred hit you. Everything is contagious, and the mind is the most contagious disease in the world. No flu can compare with it - it infects people all around.

If you can see, you can even see sparks falling from a person's head. They have different colors. That's why so many mystics have become aware of auras: because if a sad person comes, he brings a sad aura. You can see it if your eyes are clear. You can see when a happy person is approaching you; even if you don't see him - he comes behind you and you don't see him - suddenly you feel that something happy is happening around you.

Thoughts are not your own, they are not you. When you die, your thoughts scatter around. This happens: next time, go close to a dying person and watch - that in itself is an experience. When a person dies, just sit and watch what happens to your mind. You will be surprised: thoughts that never existed; thoughts that are unfamiliar to you; which are unknown to you, suddenly began to bubble within you.

A man dies and he scatters his thoughts all around, like a dying tree scatters its seeds. It is in a panic; Before a tree dies, it must scatter its seeds so that other trees can sprout. Never go close to a dying person unless you are conscious, for then the death will affect you. Moreover, never be around a person where you feel despondent, sad, if you are not conscious. If you are conscious, then there is no problem - then despondency comes and goes, but you are never identified with it.

Have you ever felt this way when you walked into a church? People pray and you immediately feel different. So many praying, not even very real, just a Sunday prayer, but still they do it, and for a few moments their windows open - they are changed. The fire engulfs you and you feel a sudden change inside.

Be carefull. Then see how thoughts enter your mind and how you identify and become one with them. And they move so fast, their speed is so great - after all, there is nothing faster than thought. It is impossible to create anything faster than thought. It does not take time to achieve anything, it jumps from one infinity to another, there is no space for it.

There are thoughts moving at great speed. Due to the high speed, you cannot see two thoughts separately. Sit down, close your eyes and slow down all processes in your body: breathing slows down, pulse slows down, blood pressure drops. You slow everything down and relax, because if everything slows down, thoughts must also slow down - because it is an inseparable whole. When everything is slow, thoughts must slow down.

This is why in deep sleep thoughts stop: everything is so slow, and thought is such a fast thing, that there is a break - the process cannot continue. Man is so slow and thought is so fast that they cannot connect - thought disappears. In deep sleep, just for a few hours, at least two hours at night, thought stops because you are completely relaxed.

Relax and just observe - as the thought process slows down, you will be able to see the gaps. There is an interval between two thoughts - in this interval consciousness exists. There is an interval between two clouds - in this interval there is a blue sky.

Slow down your thought processes and look into the intervals and pay more attention to the intervals than to the clouds. Shift your attention, change your attitude. Don't look at the figure, look at the background.

If I put a board here, a big slate the size of this wall, and put a white dot on it and ask you what you see, there's a ninety-nine percent chance that you won't see the board - you'll see a white dot, because we're seeing a figure , not the background. Such a big board, but if I ask you what you see there, you will say: “I see a small white spot.” Such a big board is not. visible, and only a small white spot, almost invisible, is visible. Why? Because it is a fixed pattern of the mind to look at the figure and not at the background; look at the cloud, not at the sky; look at thought, not at consciousness.

This setting must be changed. Pay more attention to the background than to the figure. You will be closer to reality. In meditation this must be done continuously. The mind, out of old habit, will look at the figure, and you will simply move again - look at the background.

You are here, I am here. We look at each other in two ways. I can look at the background. In the background there are trees, plants, greenery, the sky, the huge universe - this is your background. Or I can look at you - you are a figure. But the mind always looks at the figure.

That's why it happens that if you go to a person like Sosan, Jesus or Buddha, you feel that their eyes are not looking at you. You are just figures, and they are looking at the background. Their installation is different. You may feel that their eyes are cold because they are not paying attention to you.

You are just a cloud. When a person like Buddha looks, you are there, but you are only a small part of the background. The background is huge, and you are just a dot. But you would like someone to look at you, at a small dot, as if you are the universe, as if nothing exists behind you.

Buddha's love looks cold. You need ardent love - the kind when they look at you and forget the Whole. This is impossible for Buddha. You have your place, but you are just a small point. No matter how beautiful you are, you are just part of a huge background - and full attention cannot be given to you.

That's why it feels very hurt before the Buddha, because the ego wants all the attention: “Look at me, I am the center of the world.” But you are not the center of the world. In fact, there is no center of the world, for a center is possible only if the world is limited. If it is a limited circle, then a center is possible, but it is not a limited circle.

It is absurd to think about the center. There is no center in the world, the world exists without any center - and it is beautiful. That's why everyone can think, "I am the center." If there is a center, then this is impossible.

This is why Muslims and Christians and Jews will not accept the Hindu statements "I am the seventh god - aham brahmasmi." They will say: “This is heresy, what are you saying? Only God is the center. No one else is the center.”

But Hindus playfully assert: “I am God,” because they say that there is no center - or everyone is a center.

But when you ask for all the attention to be on you, that is the mind - the old habit of the mind not to look at the background, but to look only at the figure.

In meditation you must move from figure to ground, from stars to sky. The more this movement happens, the more you will feel that you are not the mind, the more you will feel that it can be easily dropped.

It's just like throwing off clothes. You stitched it so tightly that it feels like leather. It's not like that, it's just like clothes - you can take them off easily. But you need to understand that you are a background, not a figure. And when this mind falls away, Sosan says, then the objective world simply disappears.

What does he mean? Does he mean that if you are in deep meditation, if you have reached the goal, no-mind, then these trees will melt, disappear? Then this house will no longer exist? Then you won't sit here? If I achieve, will this chair on which I sit disappear?

No. The object disappears as an object: not this chair, not that tree - they will remain, but they will no longer be limited. Now they have no boundaries. Then this chair meets the sun and the sky, then the figure and the ground become one. There is no figure separate from the background - their individuality is lost. They are no longer objects because you are no longer the subject.

Krishnamurti says something very beautiful: that in deep meditation the observer becomes the observed. This is true, but it will seem absurd to you. If you look at a flower, does Krishnamurti mean that you become a flower? Then how will you return home? And someone can disrupt you - and you will find yourself in trouble.

“The observer becomes the observed.” Does this mean that you become a flower? No, but still, in a sense, yes. You don't become a flower in the sense that you can be plucked, that someone can take you, that you are no longer human. No, not in that sense. But when there is no mind, there is no boundary for you that separates you from the flower; no border for the flower that separates it from you. You both became a subjective reservoir, you dissolved and met. You remain yourself, the flower remains a flower, no one can mistakenly pluck you, but there is dissolution.

In your life this only happens sometimes for a few moments when you love a person. This also happens rarely, for the human mind never leaves you, even in love. He continues to create his own nonsense, create his own world. And the lover is not allowed such closeness that he reaches the background. It always gets in the way - but a few times it happens.

Of course, this is probably happening in spite of you. It is so natural that even if you have taken all measures, sometimes reality hits you. Despite all your measures, all your dreams, sometimes it penetrates you, sometimes you are not on your guard. Sometimes you forget yourself or you are so busy with a certain thing that a window opens and you don't look at the window - and reality comes in.

This happens for a few moments in love when the observer has become the observed. This is a beautiful meditation: if you love a person, then sit with him and look into each other's eyes, without thinking about anything, without thinking who he is, without creating a thought process - just looking into each other's eyes.

There may be a few glimpses when the observer becomes the observed, when you are lost and do not know who you are - you have become the beloved or the beloved has become you. Eyes are beautiful doors to enter into each other.

Why do I say that this is only possible in love? Because only in love you are not on guard, you are relaxed. If you are not afraid of the other, you can be vulnerable, you can accept it. Otherwise you are always on guard, because you do not know what the other will do, you do not know whether he will harm you. And if you are not alert, the damage can go very deep.

In love you can look into each other's eyes. There will be a few glimpses when the background and the figure dissolve into each other - you will be shocked to your very core. Suddenly you will have a glimpse - you are not, but still you are. Somewhere in the depths a meeting took place.

With a real meditator, the encounter takes place with the entire universe.

Not that he becomes a tree, but still he becomes a tree. When he is with a tree, there are no boundaries. And when he becomes tuned to this string without boundaries, then he moves without boundaries.

This is what Sosan means: “When the mind disappears, objects disappear; when objects disappear, you disappear, the ego disappears. They are connected."

Understand the connectedness of these two and the primordial reality - the unity of emptiness.

You exist because of the objects around you. Your boundary exists because of the boundaries of other things around you. When their boundaries are lost, your boundaries are lost - you are connected to each other, you are together.

Your mind and your external objects are connected together, they have a bridge. If one bank disappears, the bridge falls and with the bridge the other bank disappears too, because it is impossible for one bank to exist without the other - this is the meaning of connectedness.

And then there is unity - the unity of emptiness. You are empty and the flower is empty, because there is no boundary for the flower, then how can there be a center? This is one of the deepest realizations of the Buddha, and only the Buddhists have stated it so beautifully: they say no atma, no soul.

This was completely misunderstood, for the Hindus say that their whole religion is based on atme, soul - the supreme soul. And Buddha says: “When there is no limit, how can the soul exist?” When there is no boundary and the mind has become completely silent, how can the self exist? After all, “I” is the mind. How can you say “I am” when only the whole exists? When figure and ground have become one, how can you say “I am”?

This is the emptiness of Buddha - anatma. This word is wonderful - anatma, non-self. You are no longer there, but you still exist. In fact, for the first time you exist as a whole, but you do not exist as an individual, as a marked, defined separateness.

You are no longer an island, you exist as a vast expanse of emptiness. And the same with a flower, the same with a tree, the same with birds and animals, the same with a rock, stars and the sun. When your self disappears, then self disappears from everywhere, because it is your self that has been reflected, it is your self that has resonated in the universe, it has been your madness that has been reflected. Now he's gone.

Sosan says that when there is emptiness, there is unity. If you are, how can there be any unity? Your very separate existence creates division.

The Mohammedans say they love the Hindus, they are brothers; Christians say that they love Jews, they are brothers. Everyone is a brother, but how can you be a brother when you are a Christian? How can you be a brother when you are a Hindu? Your fence, your border carries enmity. At the very least you can tolerate another, but you cannot be one with another. And simply saying the word “brother” does not help, because no one quarrels as dangerously as brothers.

By saying that I am a Hindu, I make myself separate from the whole; by saying that I am powerful, I separate myself from the universe; By saying that I am extraordinary, I separate myself from the universe. This is what Chuang Tzu says: “Just be ordinary.” This means don’t separate yourself in any way, don’t make precise definitions about yourself. Live with fluid boundaries that are always ready to meet and melt.

Understand the connectedness of these two and the primordial reality - the unity of emptiness. In this emptiness the two are indistinguishable...

They cannot be distinguished, they cannot be felt as separate from each other. They are separate, but this separateness is completely different. You can discern, but this separation is not of the ego.

It's just like a wave in the ocean. You can discern: a wave is a wave, not an ocean, and yet it is an ocean. A wave cannot exist without the ocean. The ocean oscillates in it, the ocean pulsates in it. It is separate as form and yet not separate as existence. You remain separate, but still you are not separate. This is the most basic paradox that a person experiences when he experiences a state of non-self, Anatmas.

...And each one contains the whole world.

Unseparated, you lose nothing - you gain the Whole. And you are always afraid of losing, you are always thinking: “If I lose myself, then I will no longer exist. What can I gain then? You lose and you gain the Whole, but you lose nothing except your unhappiness, irritation, anxiety. What do you have to lose? You have nothing to lose - only your suffering, your slavery.

And each one contains the whole world. When you lose, you become the whole world, everything is yours. You are beggars because of yourself. You can be emperors; the mind is a beggar's bag.

I heard a Sufi story. This is one of the oldest Sufi teachings.

One day a beggar came to the imperial palace. The Emperor was in the garden at the time, so he heard him. The gatekeeper wanted to give him something, but the beggar said: “I have one condition: I always accept from the owner and never from the servants.”

The emperor was walking and heard this, so he came to look at this beggar, for beggars do not set conditions. How can you make conditions if you are a beggar? This must be a special beggar. The Emperor had never seen a man with such an imperial appearance before. This man had some kind of fame, he spread nobility around him. His clothes were torn, he was almost naked, but the beggar's bag was very, very luxurious.

The Emperor said, “What is this condition due to?”

The beggar replied, “Because the servants are beggars themselves, and I don’t want to be impolite to anyone. Only the owner can submit. How can servants serve? So if you're ready, you can submit and I'll accept it. But then I also set a condition: it is such that my bag must be completely filled.”

It was a small beggar's bag, and the emperor began to laugh. He said, “You seem crazy. Do you think that I can’t fill your beggar’s bag?”

And he ordered his ministers to bring precious stones - unique ones - and fill the beggar's bag with them.

But the ministers found themselves in a quandary, for when they filled the bag with stones, they fell into it and did not even make a sound - they simply disappeared. And the beggar's bag remained empty.

Then the emperor found himself in a quandary - his whole ego was at stake: he, the great emperor who rules the whole world, could not fill the beggar's bag! He ordered: “Bring everything, but this bag must be filled!”

For days his treasures were emptied, but the bag remained empty. Then there was nothing left, the emperor became a beggar - everything was lost. And he fell at the feet of the beggar and said: “Now I, too, am a beggar and I ask only one thing: tell me the secret of this bag - it seems to be magical!”

The beggar replied: “Nothing of the kind. She is made of human mind - nothing special."

Every human mind is just such a beggar's bag. You keep filling it, but it remains empty. You abandon the whole world, all the worlds - and they simply disappear without making a sound. You keep giving and he always asks for more.

Give love, but if the beggar's bag is present, your love will disappear. Give your whole life, but if there is a beggar's bag - it looks at you with eyes that say that you have not given anything, it is still empty. And the only proof you are given is that the beggar's bag is empty, and it is never full. Of course, the logic is simple - you gave nothing.

You have achieved many, many things - they have all disappeared into the beggar's bag. The mind is a self-destructive process. Before the mind disappears, you will remain a beggar. Whatever you can achieve will be in vain - you will remain empty.

And if you dissolve this mind through emptiness, you will become fulfilled for the first time. You are no more, but you have become whole. If you are, you will remain a beggar. If you are not there, you become the emperor.

That's why in India we called beggars with you. With you means lord, emperor. You can't find a better word for sannyasins. When I was thinking what name to give the new ones sannyasins, I couldn't improve it. With you, seems to be the best.

It means a person who has thrown himself away so completely that he is no more: he has become the whole world, the master of everything. On the other hand, even emperors remain beggars: they continue to lust, beg and suffer.

If you do not differentiate between the gross and the subtle,

you will not be tempted by prejudice and opinion.

If you don't differentiate between gross and subtle, good and bad, beauty and ugliness, this and that, if you don't discriminate, if you don't prefer, you simply accept the Whole as it is. You don't put your mind into it and become a judge. You simply say, “It is so.”

There is a thorn, you say: “This is so.” There is a rose, you say: “This is so.” There is a saint, you say, “It is so.” There is a sinner, you say, “It is so.” And the Whole knows, no one else can know, why the sinner exists. There must be some reason for this, but this sacrament is for the Whole to take care of, not for you.

You can't solve this by being yourself. If you remain yourself, you will be a great philosopher. You will have many questions and no answers; you will have many theories, but not a single truth. But if you become the mystery itself, you will know. But this knowledge is so subtle that it cannot be put into words; this knowledge is so paradoxical that it transcends all languages; this knowledge is so contradictory - because opposites lose boundaries, they become united - that no words can express it.

The figure means the word and the background means silence. In this knowledge, figure and ground become one, silence and word become one.

How can you express this? But it must still be said, for there are many who long for it. Even hearing about this may take someone's heart on a journey. That's why Sosan says these things.

Sosan knows that they cannot be said, for whenever you say it you are forced to make a distinction. When you say something, you are forced to choose a word; when you have to say something, you prefer this to that; and the mind enters.

But no one did it better than Sosan - he is incomparable. You will not find anyone else who has put this silence into words so beautifully. Even Buddha would be jealous. This Sosan is truly a Master: Master of Silence and Master of Words. He put something into this world that does not belong to this world. He imbued these words with the deep silence of his experience.

Listen to these words, not only listen - absorb. Let them seep into your heart. Don't memorize them, let them enter your flesh and become your blood and bones. Absorb them, eat them, digest them and forget them. And they have enormous power for transformation.

February 19th, 2015

Excellent material, I highly recommend it. As always, we use our barometers.

Original taken from stanislavksever in the Universe Designer's Handbook.

Stanislav Far North. Handbook of the Universe Designer.

1. The Universe consists of Consciousness.
2. The Consciousness of the Universe operates on the principles: Similarity (holographic principle), Development (spiral principle), Sequence (Golden Section).
3. Human consciousness is similar to the Consciousness of the Universe, therefore the human mind is capable of realizing the “mechanics of the Consciousness of the Universe”.
4. The nature of Consciousness is distinguished by the highest degree of rationality. If something is successful once, it will be used constantly, albeit in different variations. Consciousness uses the template always and everywhere. For example: the structure of the atom and the structure of planetary systems. Energy-information flow and light flow. And so on. The Principle of Similarity is present everywhere. And only thanks to this principle our consciousness is able to understand the very System of the Universe.
5. In nature, all living things follow the Fibonacci Series in their development, and not the Golden Section. That is: 0,1,1,3,5,8,13,21 and so on. But this can be traced only at the beginning of any process, then the Fibonacci Series become identical to the Golden Ratio. That is, the ring of energy turns into a spiral - a vortex. We will see the same thing when a spark of consciousness arises in the space of the Void: one conventional unit of information, interacting with another, creates the beginning of consciousness. But unlike the ideas of pseudoscientists, Consciousness has a beginning but no end. As in the Fibonacci Series and the Golden Ratio. The Spiral of Consciousness, having received a starting point, has no end point. Actually this is an axiom. From here we see that the theory where everything that exists is born, develops and is destroyed is fundamentally wrong! Since initially the Consciousness does not contain the principles of self-destruction.

Stages of construction of the Universe:

1. The Universe is the next phase of the development of the Void Space.
2. The Space of the Great Emptiness is the Space of the World of Numbers. Numbers are vortices and their properties are described by mathematics.
3. Numbers, hereinafter referred to as information, create energy through compaction.
4. Energy in inextricable connection with information structures a new space. Space of Consciousness.
5. The Space of Consciousness creates the material Universe.

A universal mechanism of creation.

1. Information by its nature is always heterogeneous. Heterogeneity of information creates tension between its excess and deficiency. At a certain moment, growing Tension leads to a shift in the array of information. Depending on the quality of the information, the stress has a direction and a shear strength. During a shift, information is duplicated and moved. Actually, this directed movement of duplicated information is Energy, and duplication itself is essentially a prototype of memory.
2. We have a process in which three components are combined: Information, Energy and Tension, this is Consciousness. This trinity is otherwise called: Knowledge, Power and Intention. We must understand that there are many such processes in the Great Emptiness. Waves of energy penetrate the space of the Void and interact with each other. Consciousness accumulates information, distributes it, and moves in space. This is how the Network of Consciousness is created.
3. The process of creating Matter is determined by the nature of numbers. Let me remind you that the nature of numbers is a vortex

Creation of material structures.

1. Consciousness determines the limits of form. To do this, it pushes the energy-information beam to equal distances forward - backward, right - left and up - down from itself. Then the ends of the projections are connected to form an octahedron. Then the octahedron rotates around its axes. It turns out to be a sphere.
2. A great many such spheres are formed in space. The new structure is what we mean by Ether.
3. Then Consciousness can reach the surface of its own sphere, and having appeared on the surface, it creates a new octahedron, rotates it around three axes and forms a new sphere, identical in size to the first. It is equal in size because Intent's ability to project remains the same. So it creates a second sphere, exactly the same size as the first.
4. Having created the second sphere, Consciousness at the intersection of these two spheres receives the geometric figure vesica piscis (translated from Latin as “fish eggs”. The circle of vesica piscis is symmetrical and smaller than the circle of large spheres. In other words, from the side it will look like a straight line, in the middle ) and on top like a circle (on the right). This is a geometric image through which Light was created. This is also the geometric image through which our eyes were created to perceive light. Besides light, it is also a depiction of patterns associated with our emotions and many other aspects of life. This is the basic geometry of the electromagnetic field.
5. Then the third sphere is formed, the fourth and so on. Constant compaction occurs. With the help of rotation and compaction, the material World is formed.

Structure of Consciousness

1. The energy-information beam formed by the shift of an array of information is nothing more than the Power of Imagination. And this is the main Power of Consciousness.
2. Another important point is that rotating the sphere also leads to duplication of information. The higher the rotation speed, the denser the information component. Information accumulates and condenses and serves as a source of energy.
3. The third important point is that Consciousness can be located both inside the created object and outside it. And at the same time it receives all information from the object and controls it. Therefore, Consciousness can have a form if it wishes, or it may not.
4. Consciousness, as a result of the duplication mechanism, always has an abundance of energy-informational material, which it can use at its discretion. Create an infinite number of objects with given properties. It can also endow an object with its own Consciousness.
5. The power of Imagination of Consciousness creates the World.

Components of Consciousness.

1. The first component that Consciousness uses is Direction. Direction is present everywhere, it is the basis of the coordinate system of the crystalline lattice. The coordinate system consists of six usual directions (forward-backward, up-down, left-right). But this is not a complete system. There is another direction: inward-outward. It is closely related to density. Depicted as a sphere. From the zero coordinate point to the first sphere, this is the space of the Great Emptiness. From the first sphere to the second - the space of the ether. In this case, the first sphere becomes the zero point of the coordinate system. If we consider our sphere of the material world, then the sphere of the astral world is represented by the zero point of the coordinate axis. The less dense world is a point in the coordinate system. As we see, the inward-outward direction is closely related to the density. Density determines the Sphere of Spaces. A parameter such as frequency depends on density. When moving from the material world to the astral world, the parameters of density and frequency change. But the parameters themselves are present in all spaces. The direction is eventually converted into a Coordinate System. Where, in addition to direction, the Sphere of spaces is present. Each subsequent Sphere of Space absorbs new Forces and Laws. The spheres of Space differ in the speed of processes and the density of matter.
2. The second important component is speed. Speed ​​gives us such derivatives as: frequency and density, duplication and memory. Speed ​​determines density, as well as vice versa. Time is not a constant quantity and depends on speed. This is its derivative.
3. The third important component is Rotation. Rotation, which comes from the nature of numbers, is the basis of all field structures. The basis of the transition of energy into information and back. The principle of duality stems from it. In practice, this is the basis of Life.
4. Consciousness strives for Development. It constantly exchanges information with the Field of Consciousness and builds its Worlds. It is individual and sociable. It strives to embody itself in its worlds. And it creates living objects for this. He embodies himself in living objects in order to create and understand more complex worlds. More complex Worlds are also more dense. Therefore, the statement that the next step in human development is disembodied existence is complete nonsense! Consciousness initially only does what it embodies itself in increasingly dense objects!
5. Consciousness always strives to accumulate information and energy. Death followed by birth and complete loss of memory is an unnatural process. Imposed from the outside to select energy. Immortality is the original essence of man. As well as constant development. The replacement of intensity with duality leads to the replacement of transformation with destruction.

Matter is not formed randomly. And in the course of the consistent Conscious process of transforming the World of Information into the World of Forms. And if Consciousness comes from the Emptiness of the World of Numbers, then Matter from the unfilled Spheres of Consciousness.

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| The doctrine of the five-term formula

The doctrine of the five-term formula

The fivefold formula is a mystical algorithm, transmitted in the tradition of the Siddhas when directly introduced, indicating to the yogi the sequence of unerring progress towards the highest realization. It depends on its understanding and correct decoding whether the final achievement will be achieved or not. It is believed that only a highly realized Teacher is able to fully give a comprehensive interpretation of this formula, since the formula includes the subtlest nuances associated with personal mystical experience.

The mystical instruction reads:

"When you see

magic show,

One should discover the seer -

this is the greatest secret!

Examining the seer

know the abyss of its Emptiness.

In the depths of the cave

Voids

The Great King shines radiantly -

Mystical Light.

Understand -

its nature is non-dual,

Then let me

non-duality

Penetrate the secret abode

Great Bliss."

"Laya Amrita Upadesha Chintamani"

The formula goes like this:

1. “The entire visible universe dissolves into mind (awareness).”
2. “The mind dissolves into the Emptiness of the Self (Mahashunya).”
3. “Emptiness dissolves into Light.”
4. “Light dissolves into non-duality.”
5. “Non-duality connects with bliss.”

I. “Dissolve everything visible in the mind” - means to understand that everything visible is really nothing more than a dream, and is projected by your consciousness, just as in a dream, images of people and palaces spontaneously arise. The world outside is a collective visualization, a mystical focus, a theatrical show, a performance created by the power of our minds. This means that phenomena are not self-existent, but are associated with the sense of “I”.

II. “Dissolving the mind in the abyss of the Void” means overcoming all attempts of the mind to comprehend the ultimate Truth with the help of thoughts, artificial constructions and experiencing the true samadhi of the Void, concentrating on the nature of the “I” through self-inquiry.

III. “To dissolve the Emptiness in the radiance of Light” means to discover the most subtle types of consciousness that Light represents. We remove the veil of ignorance and the false idea of ​​ourselves as a person in the body, realizing that we are the radiant energy of awareness.

IV. “To dissolve the Light in incomprehensible non-duality” means to open the thinnest layer of luminous clarity, where there is neither subject nor object, but only the non-dual presence of the transcendental Reality. The revelation of such Light is a great secret and a criterion of true achievement.

V. “To unite non-duality with bliss” means to comprehend the deep nature of Reality in its primordial purity beyond birth and death, thanks to the method of “unity of bliss and Emptiness.” The unity of bliss and Emptiness means the fusion of contemplative presence with the infinite spectrum of universal energy experienced by the yogi through sensations in the body, senses and mind.

I. The entire visible Universe dissolves in the mind (awareness)
Great mystery
Elimination of essential ignorance. The world is inseparable from “I”

“Having neither color, nor qualities, nor form, the radiant nature of consciousness - the supreme Source - shines. She is the brightest light."

“Consciousness placed in the body, in waking, dreaming and dreamless sleep, after the suffering of many births, is again bewitched by illusion.”

"Yoga Kundalya Upanishad" (27)

The teacher says: “Oh, student, understand that the consciousness of an unenlightened individual is in a state of ignorance about the world and himself. Living beings are mistaken, believing the world of objects to be solid and real, and themselves in this world to be something separate from objects. In fact, the world of manifested phenomena is only consciousness, the great Mind.

The Primordial Light is the source, the cause of Existence, is the individual’s own consciousness in its primordial purity. The entire visible Universe consists of the energy of consciousness. This energy of consciousness represents light and sound. There is nothing either inside or outside, except for the great play of consciousness energy (Chit-Shakti), endlessly manifesting itself in the space-time continuum of the micro- and macrocosmos.

“Know this: that which has form is unreal, that which is formless is eternal.”

Understand: the external world is like an echo in the mountains, a rainbow in the sky, mirages in the desert, invented horns on a rabbit, it does not exist in an objective sense, just as a dream exists only in the mind of the dreamer, so he does not have his own nature independent of the “I”.

“Just as in a dream a person creates many objects with a simple desire, but when he wakes up, everything disappears and only the consciousness of “I” remains.

All objects are devoid of self-existent existence and have the nature of Emptiness. And what we perceive as the world of manifested phenomena: our own body, mountains, rivers, sky, trees is just a magical game that is created every second and continuously held by our consciousness, just a prop, a skillful hologram, a three-dimensional movie, a masterful trick, virtual reality , a reflection similar to what is seen in a mirror, apparent, but not having even a drop of self-existence.

These images seem to be superimposed on the initially free, eternally pure nature of our “I”, as if closing it, and as a result of this, essential ignorance arises; we are constantly mistaken about the true state of affairs in the Universe. A favorite technique of our “I” is to consider ourselves as a subject, and the entire external world as objects. Things only seem visible, manifested, although in reality they do not exist. Their source, the final cause is our own “I”, i.e. consciousness in its true suchness, the fundamental, eternal part of the Mind, which is deeper than concepts and motionless in its basis.

"Sarah says: " O fool, be sure: all visible diversity is only a manifestation of your “I”.

All things in the Universe are created by thought and mind. When we examine what is the nature of the mind and where thoughts come from, we find that behind all thoughts there remains the “I-thought” (“Aham-vritti”). When we examine the “I-thought,” we find that it disappears at the moment of exploration.

Thus the mind disappears, returning to the great Source. This is the end of dualistic practice and the completion of illusion, every being, object in samsara is found to originate from the mind. Heaven with deities in palaces and hells with martyrs - all are revealed as emerging from a single basis - the consciousness of the “I”.

When the consciousness of the “I” is carefully examined, it fails the test of self-existence and melts away, revealing its true majestic nature without specific qualities, without fixed boundaries, without center or edges. The mind, at its core, is empty, pure, self-luminous, radiant, untainted by sins, unattainable by concepts, perfect without any practice and pervading everything. Therefore, the world at its core is similar to the mind, but the differences in the worlds (lokas) are not due to the difference in the original existence of the worlds as such, i.e. devas, asuras, people, beings of hell, but by the difference in karmic vision.

Living beings continuously project reality from within to outside, and then perceive it as external objects, considering themselves as subjects. Therefore, the gods, looking at the river, see nectar, the asuras see weapons, people see water, fish see a house, pretas see pus and feces, and the beings of hell see fiery lava. Everything is created by our perception.

Perception is conditioned by past karmic traces (samskaras). Understanding this, we can work with our mind, clearing samskaras and changing our karmic vision for the better. Until the Emptiness and radiant nature of the Mind is known, there is always a veil of ignorance hiding the true Self. As a result, we tend to cling to our karmic traces, considering them immutable and real.

Then we fall into slavish dependence on our own projections and become one of these projections. Belief in the density of the world leaves us no chance to change anything and we find ourselves captured by our own ideas. Thus, we find ourselves in a state of fundamental delusion, the destiny of which is suffering from ignorance, birth, death, rebirth in this vicious circle of “bad infinity.”

However, since nothing is eternal and self-existent, this “bad infinity” can be eliminated and the vicious circle of ignorance can be broken. Overcoming such ignorance is the true goal of practice.

“Not understanding that the true source of light is his own Self and mentally perceiving objects separate from himself, the ignorant are deluded.”

“Solve this great riddle, O dear one, open your eyes and unravel the knot. Who experiences the birth? Who will know? Who are you, my child, who are you?

Siddha Yogini Madalasa

First discovery of the natural nature of Mind through self-inquiry and samadhi

Realizing that it is very important for us to stop ignorance and reveal the original nature of the Mind, the student performs the practice of self-inquiry: “Where do thoughts come from? Where do they disappear to? Does the “I” have color and shape? Does it exist or does it not exist?

We try to trace the source of thoughts, that single center from where they appear, in order to discover our “I” at its basis. By asking ourselves the question: “Where do thoughts come from?”, we receive an answer from “I”. When we ask ourselves, “Who am I?” and focus on this "I", we cannot find either the "I" or the one who is looking for it. As we continue to explore again and again, we come to realize the emptiness of our Mind. The mind is empty and like the sky.

“Truly, the mind is like space, it appears to be directed in all directions, it appears to transcend everything, it appears to be everything, but in reality the mind does not exist.”

Avadhuta Dattatreya, “Avadhuta Gita” (chap. 1, 9).

Taking a motionless body posture, we explore the “I”, closing our eyes, concentrating on the feeling of “I”. Suddenly we discover the empty nature of the Self, and all our passions and thoughts have no basis.

By examining the mind again and again in meditation, we discover the emptiness of the Self. In an instant we lose all illusions at once.

When seeing or hearing occurs, we inquire: “Who hears? Who sees? Who experiences joy and sorrow? The answer will be: “I.” If we peer into the “I”, trying to find some separate self-existent “I”, we are convinced that the “I” does not have its own existence. The mind is in connection with objects. An object exists only when there is a mind that perceives it.

Everything exists depending on the mind. Nothing exists independently of the mind. Demons, good deities and evil spirits, people and mountains are only visible manifestations of the mind; they only appear to truly exist. However, apart from deceptive projections, our “I” was never here.

“Just as a mirror exists due to the image reflected in it and also exists separately from the reflection, the ultimate Reality exists inside and outside the body.”

"Ashtavakra Samhita"

Various things are seen, but they are no more real than dream images are real for the dreamer. Only the dreamer (perceiver) is real, everything else is a play of reflections of the primordial Wisdom of the “I”.

Body Instructions:

Pose: let the pose be natural, but motionless.

Breath: let it flow naturally.

Sight: eyes half-closed.

Consciousness: relaxed, uninhibited, but alert, it does not follow thoughts.

Method: By directing our attention inwards, we completely focus on the feeling of “I”.

When, thus exploring the “I” in meditation, we find nothing at all, as if looking into empty space, an inexpressible, empty, serene awareness without subject and object awakens. It is self-luminous, radiant, filled with peace. This natural state is originally pure and free, it is the Creator of Everything. The stars, the earth and the sky, the trees and mountains, everything visible is its manifestation. Everything depends on him.

“Amazing! I am pure, flawless, I am peace, I am awareness, I have overcome the forces of nature. Just as I alone illuminate this body, do I also illuminate the entire Universe? Either the Universe is me, or it is a perfect nothingness.”

"Ashtavakra Samhita"

II. The mind dissolves into the Emptiness of the Self (Mahashunya)
Experiences of deep meditation. Emptiness is the natural essence of Mind. Clarifying the Natural State

Having received, with the help of the Teacher, the first experience - the “taste” of the natural state, we clarify it again and again in meditation until our illusions disappear.

“That is everything; the highest Emptiness9, from the highest - the highest state, which is not higher, unconscious; a truth that surpasses understanding, unknown neither to the sages who have comprehended the essence, nor even to the gods.”

"Tejabindu Upanishad" (10, 11).

By practicing self-inquiry and sitting meditation again and again, we penetrate into the primordial nature of consciousness, empty, primordially pure, clear and without limitations, like radiant space.

“Give up all forms of action-based yoga and meditate on the Void.”

"Devikalottara"

This empty great “I” is spontaneous, completely pure at its core, untainted by emotions-passions, has no obstacles, has no past sins and no future merits. In this Emptiness there is no comprehender (subject), no comprehended (object).

It has nothing to do with the relative "I" - the samsaric subject, subject to illusions, passions and consisting of karma. From the point of view of the pure empty basis of the foundation of our primordial Mind, this little “I” is really no more than the reflection of the moon in water or a spring rainbow. Primordial Wisdom always sparkles in its true naturalness. It is called "Sahaja" because it is "born" ("saha"), "together" ("ja") with the birth of our relative self and is always spontaneously inherent in it.

The past is already gone, the future has not yet arrived. When we try to grasp the present, it lasts no more than a moment. This momentary awareness is That... As we dive deeper into the depths of the “I,” we discover it as a wonderful, clear, open, ever-present state of non-conceptual awareness.

“It is not empty, but it appears empty and surpasses the Emptiness; not a thought, not a thinker and not a thought, but that alone on which attention should be kept.”

"Tejabindu Upanishad" (11)

We relax into the empty natural awareness of the Self, like infinite space, free of effort.

“Feel that the space occupied by the shape of your body is infinite and contains everything.”

"Vigyan Bhairava Tantra" (22)

Staying in free, liberated awareness, we by no means go into the Void, “freezing” consciousness or renouncing the objects of the six senses. We allow our eyes to see and our ears to hear, yet we do not follow the objects of perception, remaining relaxed in the radiance of our own natural awareness.

While experiencing sensory perceptions, we remain free from attachments to objects, however, we do not reject them. We simply become aware, without generating concepts, without allowing the assessments of the dualistic mind to wedge themselves into the space between us and Reality. And even if such assessments are generated, we do not cling to them. We understand that any images, visions and sounds that appear in our minds are just reflections on the mirror of the mind.

“The great seed-source appears on the wall of comprehending awareness, illuminated by its reflected rays.”

"Tantra Raja Tantra"

The mirror is our unborn Self, and its ability to reflect is our perceiving clarity, energy, reflection, all visible phenomena.

Visions and images arise in the mind, but when we look for the “I” that perceives them, asking ourselves the question: “Who sees this? Who experiences joy or suffering?”, we are thrown back to the subject “I”, and “I” has no existence, it is immaterial, it is like a transcendental sphere (bindu), where time and space collapse.

This is the natural state (Sahaja), untainted by the traces of thoughts and perceptions, which, like ripples on water, leave no traces. The natural state is not grasped by thoughts, it cannot be denoted by symbols, or comprehended with the help of logic or mental concepts.

“He who does not meditate on the all-pervading Emptiness becomes entangled in samsara, like a silkworm in its cocoon.”

"Devikalottara"

Sahaja is neither subtle nor coarse, neither round nor angular, it does not exist nor does not exist, it has no specific location and designation. The natural state is omnipresent, like space, formless, pure in essence and free from illusion.

Again and again we peer into our “I”, trying to discover its boundaries and qualities. We examine the “I”, where it comes from and where it is, and suddenly we discover that “I am one and I am in everything, I am not limited by anything, not even by space, I do not appear or disappear, I am always the same.” .

Having discovered in deep samadhi of clarity our “I” is similar to space, we try to find the boundaries of this space, and do not find them. We explore where experiences come from, such as images, sounds, light, deities, bliss, clarity, but we cannot find their specific location, nor their source, nor where they go.

All that is is the pure presence of awareness, both within and without. We rightfully possess this presence of awareness from birth, which is why it is called natural, born with us (Sahaja). This presence of awareness is separate from the six senses of sight, hearing, taste, and smell.

This natural awareness does not disintegrate with the dissolution of the five elements of the gross body. This radiantly shining Wisdom, the natural state, lies beyond the categories of logic, words and thoughts, religious philosophy, effort, precepts of morality and ethics, it is beyond the division into good and bad, pure and unclean, worldly and spiritual, holy and sinful.

Our Self in its free, natural state “as it is” is a wonderful, naked naked awareness in the present moment in its true simplicity. This is the only unchanging absolute Reality in the continuous kaleidoscope of illusions.

This self-born Wisdom of the great Self is alone in the sense that it alone is, shining on its own, thanks to its own light, as if a thread within each object pierces the entire Universe.

Being one, the great Self appears as a wonderful variety of visible phenomena, being inactive, its energy plays, creating the illusion of action. Again and again we should acknowledge this wonderful reality of our higher self by reminding ourselves of the natural state.

When we do this, continually practicing contemplation of the Self without distraction, we are said to be present. By practicing maintaining the presence of natural awareness, we try to overcome the distinction between the period of meditation and daily actions, until a state of awareness begins to permeate every action.

If thoughts take possession of us, we direct our attention to the source at the moment of their occurrence. Thus they disintegrate the moment they arise, through natural vigilance, just as ripples disperse on water. Whether we walk, eat, talk, stand, sit, lie or sleep, experience joy, pain, suffering, pleasure or sadness, we release our natural state in any situation, because any situation is suitable for practice.

The main thing is to maintain awareness. Whether we experience hunger, lust, pain, fear, happiness or experiences of samadhi, whether we see demons in hell, spirits or Gods, Saints in Heaven, we should not have even a shadow of doubt as to the real source of these visions, viz. "I". Whatever experiences arise, we do not make judgments about them and do not cling to the experiences, do not abandon the contemplation of the true nature of our Self, thus we allow all experiences to self-liberate at their source.

Thanks to the knowledge that experiences are not separate from the experiencer, we are not afraid when we see demons, knowing that they are part of ourselves, wrathful manifestations of the self-born Wisdom of our Self, and even when we see deities in all the splendor of ornaments and the radiance of glory, in sparkling clothes from the light, we are not deluded as to their true origin, knowing that this is how the energy of awareness of our “I” manifests itself at the moment.

This is how we achieve the highest state of complete awareness of the natural “I”, integrating with all objects of the Universe, up to the complete unification of subject and object. Without effort and detachment, we find ourselves in the wonderful dimension of the transcendental reality of the natural state.

“I am amazing. I bow to myself. I don't go anywhere and I don't come from anywhere. I simply exist, filling the Universe with myself.”

"Ashtavakra Samhita"

III. Emptiness dissolves into Light
True Samadhi: the final breakthrough through the veil of unconsciousness
The empty self is filled with light

“Consciousness in its essence has no form, and its nature is the brightest light.”

Sri Adi Shankaracharya, Ten Shlokas on the Atman

When contemplative presence has gained strength and we can remain in it without distraction throughout the day, it is time to break into the unconscious areas of the mind - dreaming sleep and dreamless sleep. Usually, for this, the yogi performs Dream Yoga and Light Yoga.

Awareness in sleep can also awaken spontaneously if we remain in a deep state of contemplation without distractions all day long or if our sitting meditation is accompanied by dhyana or samadhi. The breakthrough to the ultra-thin layer of our “I”, which is pure Light, is the basis and root of all realized practices. Experiencing the four types of void Light is the essence of Light Yoga practices.

At the moment of death, all living beings from the ant to the gods are immersed in the ineffable state of Reality, which is the pure light of self-born Wisdom (Svayam Jyoti). If we want to test how successful our practice of contemplation and meditation is, we must ask whether one is aware of oneself in dreaming sleep and in dreamless sleep.

Sometimes this deepest ability of awareness is called “maintaining a hot eye,” “the eye of Dharma.” The ability to maintain meditation in dreamless sleep is the criterion of whether you have achieved Enlightenment or not, whether you can recognize this light in the intermediate state at rebirth and be liberated by merging with the transcendental light of Reality, just as water flows into water, milk into milk, and oil to oil.

There are different levels of light, of which there are three main ones.

I. The first is like the clear light of the moon in a cloudless sky, it is also called “Chandra-jyoti”, it has a taste of sweetness and clarity. In the human body it is associated with the soma chakra, the white drop (shukla), the father's seed and the principle of Emptiness.

Sometimes this light in meditation is experienced as the brightest white light, like a chain of lightning flashes.

Swami Purnananda, "Shat Chakra Nirupana" (46)

II. The second light (Surya-jyoti) is like the red radiance of the sun in a clear sky. This light is associated with the feeling of bliss, Kundalini energy and mother substance (maharajas). It is experienced at the moment of death in the case of an ordinary person, or at the moment of sleep in the case of an experienced practitioner. This light is described in the tantras as Ama-Kala, Nirvana-Kala and Nirvana-Shakti.

“This is the Deity present in everything: Nirvana-Kala sparkles dazzlingly bright, its color is like the color of the rising sun, it is bright orange.”

Swami Purnananda, "Shat Chakra Nirupana" (47)

“In Nirvana-Kala shines the Supreme Primordial Power - Nirvana Shakti. She, shining brightly like a million suns, is the mother of three worlds.”

Swami Purnananda, "Shat Chakra Nirupana" (48)

III. Finally, when by the practice of controlling the wind and the power of samadhi prana is introduced into the sushumna nadi, the red essence (maharajas) and the white essence (shukla) meet in the heart, a closure of energy occurs in the body, the yogi experiences this as the meeting of heaven and earth. In the mind, the yogi experiences thoughtlessness and darkness like the blackness in the empty night sky. This light is difficult to maintain awareness of.

As our awareness gains strength, we can make the final breakthrough to discovering the original essence of Self. When, through the power of skillful methods of contemplation, the maximum amount of wind enters the sushumna nadi, the yogi opens the supreme Clear Light.

He is called untainted (Niranjana), self-arising (Svayam-jyoti), the great radiance of Reality (Brahma-jyoti). This is the subtlest, unclouded, self-aware awareness, like a clear autumn sky without clouds or impurities. This is all-pervasive luminous awareness.

“Filled with the clarity of a thousand luminaries, untainted, filling far and near - this is not samadhi, this is not an achievement in yoga and not dissolution, this is the very unity with the transcendental Reality. Even the light of the sun appears dark in this supreme Light.”

Mahavakya Upanishad (6, 7)

IV. Light dissolves into non-duality
Full Awakening
Non-duality is the essence of true Reality

The opening of the last, subtlest layer of the Mind indicates real Enlightenment and the fact that the yogi during life has discovered the same incomprehensible depth of awareness that opens at the moment of death.

“Formless state, unchanging, unmoving, unsupported, state without any limitations, transcending speech and mind, aware only of the essence of itself, beyond discrimination and unity, bliss transcending everything, inexpressible, unborn, imperishable, beyond thoughts, eternal, unshakable , like a mountain."

The primordial radiance of the co-born Wisdom of natural awareness is revealed as complete non-duality without any hint of any subject who experiences it.

The nature of our original awareness is empty, open, naked, open and has its inherent perfection and purity without effort, correction or improvement in the form of introducing certain amendments to it.

All living beings have this nature, however, the difference between ordinary beings and Enlightened Ones is whether their own discriminating faculty comprehends this nature or does not grasp it. In case of non-realization, living beings do not derive any benefit from it, as if they did not have it at all. In case of comprehension of samsara, it is exhausted in its source, and the yogi enters the path of complete Liberation, will never again enter into reflections and illusions and will not be determined by karma and a new birth.

“There is a shining light there, kept secret in all tantras. By contemplating it the greatest perfection is achieved.”

"Shiva Samhita" (5.98)

This primordial luminosity of the subtlest layer of the mind is accessible only to the greatest yogi, who has eliminated gross and subtle illusions.

“The great yogi contemplates pure light like the holy Mount Kailash and with the help of the power of comprehension he becomes one with the Light.”

"Shiva Samhita" (5.50)

This self-arisen Pure Light was never born, this natural Wisdom of awareness was not created by anyone, there is no birth or death in it. Although it is realized, there is no one who comprehends it. It seems to be bound in samsara, passing through the stages of action in the waking state, but when it manifests itself in the everyday life of the beings who inhabit samsara, it does not suffer constraint or loss and is not tainted, just as a mirror is not tainted by its reflection. Truly, this is the wonderful transcendental “I” in which there is no “I”.

“This is the highest, unmanifested, secret state, the rootless transcendental Reality, like space without boundaries, the subtlest.”

"Tejabindu Upanishad" (5)

The radiant clarity of the fundamental nature of Mind is initially free from the darkness of ignorance, delusions, obscurations, duality of sin and virtue, pure and impure, conventions of right and wrong, division into subject and object, and transcends all the cells of concepts and networks of logical explanations.

It is not light in the sense of physical perception, nor the various kinds of light experiences experienced in ordinary lower samadhi and meditative concentration. This is the unconditioned naked clarity of awareness in its true suchness “as it is.”

The fact that in sleep and at the moment of death this primordial radiance manifests itself in its entirety opens the great possibility of complete Liberation through diligent practice of meditation and contemplation.

This Reality is indescribable, like a cloudless sky, it is limitless and pure from dualistic thoughts, like the light of the sun, it has clarity, radiance and continuity, like a transparent crystal, it is clear and pure. Although everything emanates from her, like a mirror she is the source of all reflections, yet she herself is never tarnished.

Contemplating the nature of Pure Light, the yogi eliminates all dualistic clinging, eradicating the idea of ​​the self-existence of the Self and the world, his wisdom is no longer limited by anything and rises like the shining sun in the sky. His natural awareness is not fixed by anything, neither accepting nor rejecting anything, it flows unhindered in all directions.

There are no phenomena, there is no unmanifest, birth and death, joy and suffering are completely perfect, nothing more than the play of the luminous purity of the natural state. This is incomprehensible: there has never been ignorance, there is not even a shadow of impurity or unenlightenment anywhere. No one was bound, no one was lost. There is no Liberation, since even Liberation is just a mental label implying one who was previously unfree.

The essence of the incomprehensible awareness of what has existed since the beginningless past fills everything, having no limits, no top, no bottom, no center, no periphery, no east, no west, no beginning, no end. In this awareness, the nature of all phenomena does not appear anywhere and does not disappear anywhere. Devoid of characteristics, it is wonderfully free from even the shadow of effort; it has no sides, no center, no periphery.

V. Non-duality unites with bliss
Supreme Mystery
Completion of practice: unity of light and energy of bliss
Sensations in the body during samadhi

The experience of refinement of awareness and recognition of the four levels of inner light depend on the depth of contemplative meditation and the ability to collect pranas in the sushumna nadi. According to the Teachings of Tantra, the winds naturally enter the central channel at the following moments:

~ The moment of orgasm or intense satisfaction of desire, when the highly vibrating chakra associated with desire raises the wind energy, filling the sushumna.

~ The moment of death (immediate dying), when all the winds gather in sushumna, and the yogi experiences the experience of Clear Light (Brahma-jyoti).

~ The moment of yawning when the ida and pingala in the neck (vijnana nadi) or coronary arteries are blocked.

~ The moment of samadhi or deep awareness when the fullness of subtle non-dual consciousness in the sahasrara chakra raises the wind in the chitrini nadi in the sushumna channel.

~ In the interval between inhalation and exhalation, when the breath is held voluntarily (kevala-kumbhaka).

The control of the pranas, the ability to direct them into the central channel and melt the substances in the chakras and channels is the foundation of all types of experiences of Light and contemplation in Laya Yoga. Without this, the level of comprehension of Light will be superficial, which means that subtle illusions will remain undispelled.

As prana fills the sushumna, the yogi's body experiences various types of bliss. By combining contemplative presence like space with the bliss arising from the movement of prana in the channels, the yogi includes the body in the practice of contemplation. This method of combining bliss with the Clear Light (mahasukha) is the main theme of the Shakti Yantra.

There are signs indicating that pranas have filled the central channel. They are:

~ At some point, the breath begins to move through both nostrils, i.e. ida and pingala work together.

~ Breathing becomes thinner, inhalation and exhalation become short in length, light and stop altogether.

~ Awareness becomes incredibly clear, and the body experiences bliss. It happens that breathing becomes weak due to leakage and decrease in prana, however, in this case the mind loses clarity. If the yogi, holding prana in the central channel, inhales, there will be no movement in the nostrils.

“Until the breath flows through the central channel, and the seed becomes resistant to stopping breathing, ... until then all those who talk about knowledge will remain empty talkers and deceivers.”

Svatmarama, Hatha Yoga Pradipika (4.113)

“When the outer breathing is stopped, the same happens in the middle (that is, the prana in the sushumna stops). Without a doubt, prana and mind become calm in their places.”

Swatmarama, "Hatha Yoga Pradipika" (4.50)

The following signs of the introduction of prana into the central channel are:

~ Mirages (various visions and mirages appear in the mind during meditation and contemplation, and surrounding objects seem to vibrate, as if seen through thin glass wet from rain), which indicates the activation of muladhara (earth element).

~ Smoke (in meditation there is a vision of clouds of black-gray smoke rising from below), indicating that the wind has entered svadhisthana (water element). Then a vision of five-colored light appears.

~ Sparks, like fireflies flying away, indicating fire in the manipura.

~ A flame, like a candle or oil lamp, indicating the wind element in the anahata chakra.

All this is like visions in meditation.

Subtle experiences in deep meditation, when the mind is clear and calm, the nadis are purified, and the elements in the chakras are awakened:

~ Beginning (arambha) - thin white moonlight in a cloudless sky.

~ Vessel (ghata) - a thin red light, like sunlight in a cloudless sky, like a strip of red-blue light.

~ Increasing (parichaya) - impenetrable darkness, like a moonless night sky.

~ Completion (nishpatti) - pure Clear Light, similar to the natural color of a cloudless autumn sky at dawn without any images and without the sun and moon.

These subtle experiences immediately follow the gross ones and indicate the dissolution of the elements in the yogi’s body, the closure of prana and the nature of the “I”.

At this time, the red bindu rises up the sushumna, and the white bindu descends down to the heart center, where they meet, merging. These three bindus: red, white and mixed manifest themselves at all levels of existence (Shiva, Shakti, Shiva-Shakti).

The elements dissolve into each other and laya occurs. The primordial luminosity of primordial awareness appears. During this time, the yogi also experiences various forms of sound, which arise in parallel with the visions. All living beings encounter this Light, however, they cannot recognize it and unite with it, and are forced to take birth again in the body. The yogi, training in contemplation, experiences this Light during his lifetime, getting used to it as his true shining Reality.

“Just as the space within a vessel completely merges with the space around it when the vessel breaks, so the individual self merges with the supreme Reality of Existence.”

"Mandukya Upanishad"

Working with the unity of the presence of awareness of various levels of light and sound, up to their complete exhaustion and depletion in the primordial empty Reality of the “I,” is the main method of contemplation inherent in Laya Yoga. In this regard, in the tradition of Laya Yoga of the highest stages, two practices are usually mentioned: Nada Yoga, where we unite with sound up to the highest stages of sound, and Jyoti Yoga, where we, using special methods, generate internal visions of light, and then we work with the unity of awareness and vision.

Contemplation of internal and external manifestations of energies in the form of light and sound is a sacred method of realizing the Teachings of the Siddhas, leading to complete Awakening in one life and the achievement of “saruba mukti” - a special method of Liberation inherent only in the highest methods of yoga, which includes the dissolution of all elements in the body and transforming it into a Rainbow Body.