Vijnana Bhairava denotes knowledge of the Lord. Meditation means to be in the moment without thought, to be in
the state of blissful consciousness.
1. The still space between in-breath and out-breath.
2. Focus attention between the eyebrows.
3. Look at a blank wall or other blank surface.
4. Meditate on all-encompassing space.
5. Meditate on all-encompassing emptiness.
6. Close all openings of your head (7) and
meditate on stillness.
7. Close your ears and listen to your own
internal sound.
8. Meditate on the sound OM
and let it take you to the expanded state.
9. Pay close attention to the space where sounds
emerge and disappear. This is the Non-state.
10. When listening to music, pay attention to every
appearance and disappearance of the sounds. Let the sounds carry you into
stillness.
11. Go through the letters of the alphabet one by
one. Meditate on the sound of each letter individually. Focus your attention
where sounds merge and where they emerge.
12. Meditate on your form as being filled with
blissful light radiating in all directions simultaneously.
13. Meditate on the timeless moment in the moment.
Maintain this timeless experience forever.
14. Meditate on space filling you completely.
15. Meditate on the finer and finer forms of the
objects around you. Meditate on the fact that all objects and you are made of
the same substance.
16. Meditate on God who pervades this entire
creation.
17. Meditate on the sensation that you are the jar
that contains the entire universe.
18. Meditate on the space that is contained within
a container. Do not meditate on the confinement created by the sides, but
meditate on the space that fills it.
19. Meditate in a place where you feel the infinity
of space. Meditate on this infinite space.
20. Meditate on the empty space that is created
when you move your attention from one object to another.
21. Just when you feel the need to act, stop, and
meditate on the sensation of expectation, the sensation of intense waiting.
22. Meditate on the notion that your form and the
form of the universe are identical.
23. Meditate on the still space between inbreath
and outbreath. Bliss follows.
24. Meditate on the sensation that your body
(flesh, bones, blood) is saturated with the essence of the universe, which is
bliss.
25. Meditate on the sensation of bliss when your
senses bring something astonishing to your attention.
26. Meditate on the sensation of bliss when you
experience the bliss of orgasm.
27. Meditate on the joy you experience during any
of your daily activities.
28. Meditate on the memory of a joyful experience.
29. Meditate on the memory of a blissful
experience.
30. Meditate on the joy of meeting a long lost dear
one.
31. Meditate on the joy of experiencing pleasureble
foods and drinks.
32. Meditate on the joy of listening to pleasurable
music.
33. Meditate on the joy of any kind pleasurable
experience.
34. Meditate on the state that occurs when you are
on the threshold between waking and sleeping states.
35. Meditate on the state that emerges when you are
seated in a relaxed upright and balanced position.
36. Look without blinking at an object for a long
time.
37. Laying on your back, completely unmoving, be
the witness of your thoughts.
38. When you experience obstacles to your
meditation, realize that the obstacle is also a part of your meditation.
39. Through discrimination, realize that “you” do
not exist, “your” body does not exist, the “world’ does not exist. What exists
is non-dual emptiness.
40. When a desire enters your mind, ask yourself
“am I this desire?” The answer will be “no”. Then revel in the state of
emptiness that results.
41. When you desire to know something, ask yourself
“will this knowledge make me complete?” The answer is “no”. Revel in the state
of emptiness that will follow.
42. See only consciousness in this world.
43. Every time you experience strong feelings,
withdraw from them and become their uninvolved blissful witness.
44. See the whole universe as a mirage.
45. See yourself mirrored back at yourself in all
that exists.
46. See the spark of consciousness in all beings,
whether high or low.
47. Clear your mind of all help to meditation and
experience the joy of freedom from these crutches.
48. The creator and the created have the same
qualities. You are not different from the creator. Therefore you have a hand in
everything. You are omnipresent.
49. Dance with abandon. Then drop to the ground as
if dead and experience the total absence of yourself.
50. When sudden activities shake up your mind, you
can find yourself in the Non-state.
51. Focus your attention on a single object. This
will bring about the experience of the blissful conscious Self.
52. Realize that there is not such thing as a pure
or an impure thought. Experience the freedom that comes with this realization.
Free yourself from all so-called ethical injunctions.
53. Bring your feelings into a state of balance.
Meditate on the joy you experience in this state of balance.
54. Contemplate the empty space that surrounds all
objects. This focus frees the mind from the limitations set by concrete forms.
55. Chant one of the many names of God with
ecstasy.
56. Meditate on the joy you experience whey you
have truly imbibed new knowledge.
57. Have a stable and balanced mind. This leads to
the experience of joy.
58. Pray to God with single-minded attention.
Experience the bliss contained in this prayer.
59. Breath in with the sound of HAM and breath out
with the sound of SA. But, be the witness of HAM and SA. Live in the space
where the Non-State naturally exists.
60. Meditate on the joy of victory. Do not gloat!
61. Meditate on the joy of moments of perfection.
62. Meditate on the notion that you are perfect,
this world is perfect and God is perfect.
63. Meditate on the notion that this moment is
perfect.
64. Hold back the tide of your memories and the
tide of worries about the future. Be joyful in the space between the past and
the future: this moment.
65. Meditate on the notion that your body is filled
with void.
66. Meditate on the notion that the universe is filled with void.
67. Meditate on nothingness in a cemetery.
68. Meditate on the astonishment experienced during a magic act.
69. Meditate on the miracle of the existence of creation.
70. Meditate on the experience of pain. Find the witness behind the
pain.
71. Meditate on the point of emergence of strong emotions as well as on
the point where these emotions subside.
72. When finding your attention being pulled towards sense objects, turn
our attention within and experience the freedom from attachments.
73. Meditate on the question “who am I?”
74. Meditate on the fact that knowledge and the knower merge the moment
something becomes known.
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