IN THE FIRST STAGE ‘There is identification with systems, methods, paths, techniques, models, schools, and maps Nisargadatta Mahar: “I do not believe in spiritual paths ... all paths lead to unreality ...” Discard as not this not this. ‘THE SECOND STAGE ‘There is identification with, thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, feelings, perceptions, sensations, the body, and the perceiver, For Nisargadatta Maharaj, you are not the mind Nisargadatta Maharaj: “What you know about yourself came from outside of you, therefore discard it.” Maharaj states that the I Am, that sense of beingness, is that which the mind is dependent upon Nisargadatta Maharaj: Hold onto the I Am, the sense of beingness, discard all else. By staying in the | Am, and discarding all else, there is no longer a dependence upon thoughts, memori emotions, associations, perceptions, Then the stateless state of beingness, the sense of | Am appears. All experiences are dependent on | Am or the sense of beingness. even a perceiver.Meditation Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, are you perfect, imperfect or neither? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, what does perfect or imperfect even mean? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, are you worthy, worthless or neither? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, what does worthy or worthless even mean? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, are you a doer, a non-doer, or neither? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, what does doing or not doing even mean? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, are you adeauate. inadeauate or neither?Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, what does adequate or inadequate even mean? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, are you a knower, a not knower or neither? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, what does a knower, or a not knower even mean? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, are you alone, connected or neither? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, what does alone or connected even mean? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, are you complete, incomplete or neither? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, what does complete or incomplete even mean?Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, are you powerless, powerful or neither? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, what does pawarlil or pawarless evenimnecn® Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, are you lovable, loveless or neither? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, what does loveable, loveless, or love even mean? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, or the body: NOTICE THE NO STATE STATE, THE STATELESS STATE OF | AM.THE Turrp STAGE: IDENTIFICATION WITH THE I AM Realize that the sense of I Am or beingness is a temporary state, a layer or veil made of consciousness which is to be discarded as not this, not this. As conditioned states dissolve, the underlying consciousness is revealed. The Yoga Vasistha, “Everything is consciousness nothing exists outside of consciousness.” Everything that appears to exist is made of consciousness. argadatta Maharaj Pg. 8: “The important thing is consciousness. You must give your full attention to the consciousness itself. That is the process of meditation; then all the secrets are revealed to you by the consciousness.”THE FOURTH STAGE: DissoLvinG THE “OF” ConsciousNEss Meditation: Dissolving the “OF” Part One: Reviewing the | Am. Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, are you crazy, sane or neither? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, what does crazy or sane even mean? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, are you out of control, in control, or neither? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, or the body, what does out of control or in control, even mean? Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body image, or what you have been told, notice the no state state of the |Notice the quiet, vastness, or spaciousness of the no state state of | Am without depending ‘on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or what you have been told, Part two: Realizing the Consciousness Noticing the quiet, vastness, or spaciousness of the no state state of | Am, Without depending on thoughts, memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, or the body or what you have been told, NOTICE THAT YOU ARE CONSCIOUS “OF” THE NO STATE OF | AM ALLOW THE “OF” TO DISSOLVE AND JUST BE THE CONSCIOUSNESS Realize you are the consciousness and that everything that arises and subsides is dependent upon consciousness and is made of consciousness which leads to the next phase.‘THe Frrru STAGE As the consciousness fades, not only are you not the beingness, you are not the | Am, you are not the consciousness, you are prior to consciousness, the Absolute. Nisargadatta Maharaj called it the Parabrahman. Five Currents This is where certain aspects of five currents of teaching meet, Advaita: one substance, not two, Vedanta: The end of the Vedas, neti neti, not this not this. Neti Neti is the process of negating all names and forms, (nama rupa), in order to realize the Self with a Capital S. Kashmir Shaivism: The Shiva Sutras, The disappearance of the universe as something separate from consciousness. Its reduction to sameness with consciousness, and its assimilation with consciousness itself, Buddhism: The Heart Sutra’ Emptiness is form, form is emptiness Emptiness is Consciousness, Consciousness Emptiness Emptiness and Consciousness are two sides of one coin. Everything is Emptiness, Consciousness is condensed emptiness