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Hey all, I’m just sharing my condensed note on adyashanti’s books and meditation course. It’s mostly related to his teaching on meditation. I am still awakening as formless being so the other awakenings in his book “the direct path” are not in here. I made this so that I can read it rather than re read his different books and course. THE FOUNDATION: MEDITATION WHAT IS MEDITATION? Meditation is neither a means to an end nor something to perfect. Meditation done correctly is an expression of Reality, not a path to it. Meditation is the art of allowing everything to simply be as it is in the deepest possible way. In order to let everything be, we must let go of the effort to control and manipulate our experience. This cuts right to the heart of the egoic make-up, which seeks happiness through control, seeking, striving, and manipulation. Many forms of meditation are based on learning to control one's experience as a means of attaining peace. Such methods often lead to a dead end, where one only attains peace of mind as long as the ego is being constrained by meditative technique. Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control and allowing everything to be as it. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. True meditation is abiding in non-abiding. Not clinging or grasping anything. You can’t grasp at awareness because there is literally nothing to grasp. Awareness has no location or particular point of view. Let go of trying to abide in anything particular. Because you can only abide in something you can focus on. Abide in the state of letting go and letting everything be The silence and stillness of meditation is the bedrock upon which this teaching rests. It fosters an inward stability, objectivity, non-attachment, and depth of understanding unknown to the conceptual mind. The attitude conducive to meditation is one of surrender, effortlessness, and openness. Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being— a resting in and as being or awareness . Meditation is an aligning with awareness itself. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life. Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition. True Meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. All methods aiming at achieving acertain state of mind are limited, impermanent, and conditioned. Fascination with states leads only to bondage and dependency. True Meditation is effortless stillness, abidance as primordial being. True Meditation appears in consciousness spontaneously when awareness is not being manipulated or controlled. In True Meditation all objects (thoughts, feelings, emotions, memories, etc.) are left to their natural functioning. This means that no effort should be made to focus on, manipulate, control, or suppress any object of awareness. Meditation is the art of not being distracted from your true nature by the endless content / form. In True Meditation the emphasis is on being awareness not on being aware of objects, but on resting as conscious being itself. As you effortlessly rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive habit of control, contraction, and identification. Awareness returns to its natural condition of conscious being, absolute un manifest potential- the silent abyss beyond all knowing. THE CENTERING TECHNIQUES Breath of context Be aware of the breath Link the exhale to the pure space, stillness, silence by feeling that you exhale into pure space Mantra Pointer Hold or repeat a thought or phrase instead of being caught up in other thoughts. Then let go of that thought and rest in silence. Repeat the thought just enough so that you don’t get lost in thought. MEDITATIVE INVESTIGATION METHODS FOR AWAKENING AS THE FORMLESS BEING OF AWARENESS 1. Comes, Goes, Remains Center yourself if needed Notice the context (silence, space, stillness, etc) of awareness Notice that all things come and go yet you remain Notice that when izjeon (your name) fades you remain 2. Open Sky Center yourself if needed Experience awareness as a spacious and open sky within which thoughts and feelings come and go Let yourself rest as this spacious and open sky-like nature of awareness as it clings to nothing yet pushes nothing away 3. I AM Center yourself if needed Think the words “I AM” to yourself Notice your silent true self Rest as your true self (Repeat steps if needed) 4. I AM ALL Center yourself if needed Rest as your true self Sense this same self / awareness in “others” 5. Resting as awareness Be the now-and-already-existing presence of awareness Relax and abide as concept free, naturally clear, and unborn being TOP REALIZATION QUOTES “the unborn omnipresent base dissolves your impulses and delusions. Rest in the unborn essence and let all conceptions of yourself and the universe melt away” - Tilopa “The ego is like a Halloween costume you put on, wear for a couple of hours at a party and then somehow you all a sudden identify with the costume entirely” - Adyashanti “A state we call realization is simply being oneself. Not knowing anything, not becoming anything” - Ramana Maharshi “Bring the light in and the darkness is no more. When you are aware things will start changing on their own accord” - Osho “Center yourself in the Tao. Then trust your natural responses and everything will fall into place.” - Lao Tzu “Look at yourself steadily, that is enough.” - Nisargadatta

Here are some poems I made. Feel free to drop your own or others. The gates of love Open wide When we realize That the you is I Real eyes Realize Our present Our prize The wise realize That there is no difference Between the you And the I In silence and peace Not lacking in the least The wisdom of the east Fulfills like a feast Seek Until you meet The godly one Found in everyone Resting in being Is truly freeing Becoming is illusory You are already Pure and holy The one and only One who awakens from the dream Finds that they are pure and clean They are beyond what is seen They evaporate like steam They come down like rain Guiding all in realizing the same Vast as the infinite sea We remain in eternal tranquillity The master’s key Is to simply be Just be in this peace That is present eternally There is no need to reach We already have it There is no need to grasp We cannot lose it Be rooted In that which has no form And inner peace Will become the norm Know yourself And find that you are wealthy Know yourself And find that you are worthy Know yourself And find that you are holy Know yourself And find that you are godly There is no door to enter The source is here It’s nature like space Vast and clear What we thought Mattered It became our present What we thought mattered Didn’t All that mattered Was our present Look at the tree that’s talk Thanks to it’s roots it will not fall It ascends while staying planted It’s progress is nearly cemented The inner peace within Is like an eternal friend Peace is always near Never there always here Like a flower You shall bloom And shine like the sun Uplifing everyone

Imagine a vast void behind (Void is the foundation for visualisation) Imagine a vast void out of sight beyond the moment (As if the moment is in the void) Imagine the vast void within the body (As if it is empty) Imagine the body parts not seen are void/gone Imagining light streak in 1-6 directions (To sense vastness of void) Imagine the moment from a different point of view Imagine being a different form within the moment Imagine heard sounds as sound waves Imaging sensations as light forms that disappear when not sensed Imagining sounds as bubbles Imagine slowly and lovingly creating the moment Imagining a form within the moment created the moment Imagining words in the void instead of thinking using sound Imagine reflection of moment behind Imagine sounds and sensations as hearts Imagine a form then make it shapeshift into other forms Imagine what goes out of sight has died in the void and is reborn as another sensed form Imagine sounds that die are born as another sound / sense Imagine that what is no longer felt has died and is reborn as another sensed form Imagine being the sustainer of the moment Imagine that a form within the moment sustains the moment Imagine the moment without us in it Imagine that many forms we love have died and are reborn as the moment Imagine many universes / multiverses keep zooming out until they are tiny Imagine our moment then zoom out until its super small compared to us our vast void

Imagine a vast void behind (Void is the foundation for visualization) Imagine a vast void out of sight beyond the moment (As if the moment is in the void) Imagine the vast void within the body (As if the body is empty) Imagine the body parts not seen are void/gone (As if they don't exist) Imagining light streak in 1-6 directions (To sense vastness of our void) Imagine the moment from a different point of view Imagine being a different form within the moment Imagine heard sounds as sound waves that vanish when not sensed Imaging sensations as light forms that disappear when not sensed Imagining sounds as bubbles that pop when not sensed Imagine slowly and lovingly creating the moment Imagining a form within the moment created the moment Imagining words in the void instead of thinking using sound Imagine reflection of moment behind Imagine sounds and sensations as hearts Imagine a form then make it shapeshift into other forms Imagine what goes out of sight has died in the void and is reborn as another sensed form Imagine sounds that die are born as another sound / sense Imagine that what is no longer felt has died and is reborn as another sensed form Imagine being the sustainer of the moment Imagine that a form within the moment sustains the moment Imagine the moment without this body in it Imagine that many forms we love have died and are reborn as the moment Imagine many universes / multiverses keep zooming out until they are tiny Imagine our moment then zoom out until its super small compared to us our vast void Imagine the one thing happening and also it’s opposite

The bottom is apart Half of me is dark Yes I’m made blind By my own light I rise when I descend I limit myself to no end To expand my wealth I differentiate myself From myself I play a game of my design I create myself within my mind I hide what I seek to find I lose what is really mine To gain a new kind I give myself to myself This is my wealth

One way is to astral project then say “non dual state now”. That is what I use whenev out of body to “die”.

Infinite Awakenings ?

Yeah insights are super helpful. Also as for information on magick the astrum argentum websites, quareia, Ryan cropper astral course, William buhlman, Damien Echols, chaos magick, and hermeticism helped me but @Matt8800 can probably give you the best resources he seems to know a lot about magick

Anything you can imagine is possibly possible. For me I have practiced astral projection for a couple of years now. There is so much potential just in that one skill. For example in the beginning I could only project randomly, on lower planes, and not for a long time. Now I can project more often, fully control my astral body, shatter my body to experience death/void, raise to higher planes at will, invoke entities, access dmt like trips at will, etc. The only thing is humans are purposefully limited so you will have to overcome many obstacles to reach a super high level in any magical skills.

Osho/Lao tzu because they were awake to awareness of Self/humour and love. Also Machine elves and ra (from law of one)

One love meditation I do is focus on whatever you are sensing and mentally repeat “feel free to be as you are”. I do it as if I am speaking to form/existence it helps with mental concentration + love.

Maybe try and contemplate why an artist paints, a transformer transforms, a thinker imagines etc. The answer really helped me go full circle. There are an infinite amount of things to know so feel free to be as you are. You are perfect just as you are. You are unique and this moment within infinity is just for you ?

Loved the trailer so much it made me cry tears of joy. Def gonna watch ?

@r0ckyreed The method I used to first discover nothingness is this: astral project (have an out of “body” experience) then repeat “non dual state now” until your body shatters and you will see what remains. Another word you can try is “zen guru”. It takes a while to learn how to astral project but once you learn it is very useful and fun.