This document provides guidance on different states of consciousness that can be experienced through meditation. It describes how observing one's thoughts without judgment allows the sense of self and mental perceptions to fall away. Deeper states of meditation involve entering dream-like states, subtle thinking, mental noise, and ultimately silence and pure consciousness. The document encourages focusing on the feeling of "I am" during meditation to keep the sense of self centered in the heart. Saying "I am" with each breath helps realize that one inhales and exhales the entire universe. Remaining in the state of simply being the "I am" without effort allows one to arrive at their natural absolute state as the witness of awareness before thoughts.
This document provides guidance on different states of consciousness that can be experienced through meditation. It describes how observing one's thoughts without judgment allows the sense of self and mental perceptions to fall away. Deeper states of meditation involve entering dream-like states, subtle thinking, mental noise, and ultimately silence and pure consciousness. The document encourages focusing on the feeling of "I am" during meditation to keep the sense of self centered in the heart. Saying "I am" with each breath helps realize that one inhales and exhales the entire universe. Remaining in the state of simply being the "I am" without effort allows one to arrive at their natural absolute state as the witness of awareness before thoughts.
This document provides guidance on different states of consciousness that can be experienced through meditation. It describes how observing one's thoughts without judgment allows the sense of self and mental perceptions to fall away. Deeper states of meditation involve entering dream-like states, subtle thinking, mental noise, and ultimately silence and pure consciousness. The document encourages focusing on the feeling of "I am" during meditation to keep the sense of self centered in the heart. Saying "I am" with each breath helps realize that one inhales and exhales the entire universe. Remaining in the state of simply being the "I am" without effort allows one to arrive at their natural absolute state as the witness of awareness before thoughts.
about what is here and what is really here beyond mental perception are two completely different things. Thinking usually happens at such a speed that the reality you experience is not questioned. And what is the mind doing? It is defining, describing and judging and justifying those definitions, descriptions and judgments. It is constantly creating and reinforcing a sense of "me" that is separate from everything else and thus there is conflict. But if you take a step back and observe thinking, observe the process of thoughts arising, then this whole mind perception begins to fall apart. At first, the idea of the thinker will disappear
and you will see thoughts
are arising by themselves. From here, all judgmental thoughts will stop arising. As you go deeper, all personal thoughts of "me" and everything in relation to this personal "me" disappears and there is an incredible sense of freedom. Then you enter dream states, visions, esoteric and subtle thinking that cannot be comprehended by the intellectual mind. And beyond this is mental noise. And beyond that mental noise is silence, a sense of nothingness, pure consciousness. The beauty of it is, the moment you begin observing the thinking instead of identifying with thoughts, that sense of stress and conflict considerably dissipates and there is incredible peace. And with each level of witnessing you sink into, you let go of another
subtler sense of self and
this peace and bliss increases. Judgments stop, the bliss increases, the personal sense of "me" as you know yourself to be disappears and the bliss increases. You keep moving closer and closer to the essence of what is really here, to pure peace, pure consciousness and you become more and more free. It starts with observation, with witnessing, but then what happens cannot be explained, you feel your way into it, you let yourself go into it. Kind of like when you go to sleep at night. You lie down and relax and then you let yourself go into sleep. You don't really know intellectually how it happens, because it happens beyond the perception of mind.
I AM Meditation Robert Adams
The world is a cosmic dream.
It is up to you to awaken from this world dream. The idea is to keep the mind quiet and still, and not follow the I-thought out into this world, where it causes havoc and pain, but to keep the I-thought centered in your heart where it belongs, in your spiritual heart, where it can never come out again. There is an exercise we do to make this happen. It is called the I-am meditation,very powerful exercise. If you have to meditate, if you want to meditate this is the most powerful meditation there is. You will find many changes taking place in your life as you practice this meditation. So let's do it all together, shall we? I AM MEDITATION
Make yourself comfortable.
Close your eyes to remove obstructions and focus your attention on your breath. Listen to your breathing, to your respiration. Do not try to alter your breath, just listen to it. Observe it, watch it. If your mind wanders gently bring it back again to watching your breath. Feel the sensations in your body. You have become the witness to your respiration. You are witnessing yourself breathing. This alone makes you very quiet and still and peaceful. Now ask yourself the question, "Who is the witness that is watching the breath? Who is this witness?" Say to yourself, "I am, I am." With your respiration as you inhale you say, "I," as you exhale say, "am." Inhale say, "I," exhale say, "am." As you are doing this realize that as you inhale, you're inhaling the entire universe. As you exhale the universe becomes alive again through you. You inhale the universe everything, all of life is sucked into your consciousness. You say, "am," you exhale the universe again. "I am." (long silence) ~Robert Adams - T.180 : You Dont Even Exist! - 30th August, 1992 Without doing anything you have the knowledge I am, it has come spontaneously and unwillingly on you,
stay there and put an ax to the I am.
Sitting quietly, being one with the knowledge I am, you will lose all concern with the world, then the I am will also go, leaving you as the Absolute.. Just sit and know that you are the I am without words, nothing else has to be done; shortly you will arrive to your natural Absolute state. Who has the knowledge I am? Somebody in you knows the knowledge I am, you are. Who is it? You have to understand that the I am is even before the arising of any words, thoughts or feelings. Meditation means to have an objective or hold onto something. You are that something. Just being the being I am. Sit in meditation by identifying with the I am, dwell only on the I am- not merely the words I am. Do you require any special effort to know that you are? The I am without words itself is God. The I am is the awareness before thoughts, it cannot be put into words; you have to just be. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj