The Most Rapid Means to Eternal Bliss
The Awareness Watching Awareness Practice Instructions
The preliminary instructions
Set aside as much time each day to practice the Awareness Watching Awareness
Method as you are willing to set aside.
Drop as many unnecessary activities as you are willing to drop, to free
up more time for awareness watching awareness practice.
It is better if you can be undisturbed during your practice.
If you practice at home you can ask those whom you live with not to disturb
you when you are meditating, unless there is an emergency. Or you can
find some other place to practice where you will be undisturbed. If you
can’t do that, well of course, go ahead and practice anyway.
Bodily posture is not important in the Awareness Watching Awareness Method.
However, since one wishes to turn the attention away from the body, it
is important that the body be comfortable and relaxed and not causing
any pain or strain.
You can do the practice sitting crossed legged or sitting on a chair or
sitting on a sofa or couch or even lying down on your bed if you are able
to do so without falling asleep. Whatever is comfortable and does not
cause any pain, strain or discomfort. Whatever posture helps you to ignore
the body and turn the attention away from the body.
For the purposes of this practice the following definitions for the words
awareness and thought must be used.
Thought: Thoughts are the words of your native language in the
mind. If your native language is English, and the language you think in
is English, then thoughts are those English words in your mind. If you
think in two languages, then thoughts are the words of those two languages
in your mind.
Awareness: When you wake up in the morning, awareness is that
consciousness that woke up in the morning. Thoughts come and thoughts
go, but the background of awareness remains continuous during all the
waking hours until you go to sleep at night. Awareness is you, your awareness,
just your awareness that is looking through your eyes right now.
The words Awareness, consciousness, attention, observation, watching,
looking, seeing and concentrating all have the same meaning.
Try an experiment:
Just look at an object in the room.
Notice the awareness that is looking through your eyes.
Now shut your eyes and notice that you are still aware.
It is the same awareness that was a moment ago looking at the room.
Now, with your eyes still closed, observe your awareness.
The following practice instructions are the Awareness Watching Awareness
Method described, using carefully chosen slightly different wording.
It is important to use as few words as possible to describe the practice.
Use only one description per meditation session. If you are going to be
practicing for one or two or three hours today, then for that entire time
you should be using only one set of instructions.
Try Description A first. If A is easy for you to understand and practice,
there is no reason to go to B or C or D. A is enough. However if you do
not understand the instruction then the next day you could try B.
Some versions might for a moment have you start with your eyes open, but
once you are instructed to close them, then keep them closed. In other
words, the Awareness Watching Awareness Method is always to be done with
the eyes closed.
When you are observing your awareness, just remain with that.
No need to do anything else.
Awareness is empty, so there is no object you are trying to observe.
It is just awareness being aware of itself.
Also it is no special kind of awareness, it is just your ordinary everyday
awareness that you normally go through the day with, looking at itself.
You can record the instructions below on an audiocassette or CD for personal
use if you wish. The best way to do this is to only record one description,
description A for example. It is important to listen to only one description
during a meditation session. Otherwise you would be bringing in too many
words and too many concepts. You do not wish to interrupt your practice
session by having to turn a tape recorder off either. That is why it is
best to record only one description, if you decide to record it. Repeat
the instructions on the recording every 30 minutes.
The Practice Instructions
Description A
Shut your eyes.
Notice your awareness. Observe that awareness.
Turn your attention away from the world, body and thought, and towards
awareness watching awareness.
If you notice you are thinking, turn your attention away from thought
and back towards awareness watching awareness.
Description B
Look out at the room, notice your awareness looking out through your eyes.
Now shut your eyes and notice that same awareness is still there, that
a moment ago was looking outward at the room.
Observe that awareness.
If you are not having many thoughts, just ignore them and continue with
awareness observing awareness.
If you seem to be having a lot of thoughts, then just turn your attention
away from the thoughts and towards awareness observing awareness.
Description C
Shut your eyes. Notice that you are conscious. Watch that consciousness.
If you notice thoughts, just ignore them and continue watching your consciousness.
Do not watch your thoughts, watch your consciousness.
Consciousness watching consciousness.
Consciousness conscious of consciousness.
Description D
Shut your eyes.
Turn your attention away from thought and watch the watcher, see the seer.
Description E
Shut your eyes.
Notice your awareness.
Be aware of your awareness.
If you notice you are thinking, turn your attention away from thought
and towards awareness of awareness.
Description F
Shut your eyes.
Just remain in awareness aware of itself.
If there are not many thoughts, just ignore them.
If there are many thoughts, then bring your attention back to awareness
aware of itself.
Description G
Shut your eyes.
Observe your awareness.
If there are thoughts, turn your attention away from them and continue
to observe your awareness.
Description H
Shut your eyes
Turn your attention towards awareness and concentrate on awareness.
Concentrate in a relaxed manner without strain.
If thoughts are noticed, turn your attention away from them and back towards
concentrating on awareness.
Description I
Shut your eyes.
Be aware of being aware.
Now remain in that awareness of awareness.
If there are thoughts turn your attention away from them and continue
being aware of being aware.
Description J
Shut your eyes.
Notice you are aware. Look at that awareness.
Remain in awareness looking at awareness.
If thoughts arise, look away from them and go back to looking at awareness,
then just remain in that awareness looking at awareness.
Awareness being aware of awareness.
Awareness being aware of itself.
Remain in that.
Don’t move from that.
Description K
Shut your eyes.
Your present awareness watching your present awareness, while ignoring
all else.
Description L
Look at the room. Notice your awareness looking through your eyes.
Shut your eyes and turn your attention around to look at itself.
Attention attending to attention. Just remain with that.
Don’t move from that. Don’t attend to anything else, don’t attend to thought.
Attend only to attention.
Description M
Look at the room. Notice your awareness looking through your eyes.
Now shut your eyes.
Notice that same awareness that was just looking through your eyes a moment
ago.
Now turn that awareness around 180 degrees away from the world, the body
and thought and towards itself, towards awareness watching awareness.
Description N
Look at the room. You are the seer. Your awareness is that which sees.
Shut your eyes.
See the seer. Remain with that.
Turn your attention away from thought and towards the seer.
Further Clarification
Further clarification on how to practice the Awareness Watching Awareness
meditation can be read here: Further
Clarification
Other Methods:
There are two primary direct and rapid means to Infinite-Eternal-Life-Awareness-Love-Bliss.
The Path of Surrender
The Abandon Release Method is the most direct and rapid means to Infinite-Eternal-Life-Awareness-Love-Bliss
on the path of Surrender.
The Abandon Release Method is a whole and complete practice, and as long
as you are satisfied with the new life the Abandon Release Method gives
you, you need no other practice.
You can read the Abandon Release Method practice instructions here:
The Path of Awareness
The Awareness Watching Awareness Method is the most Direct and Rapid Means
to Infinite-Eternal-Life-Awareness-Love-Bliss on the Path of Awareness.
The Awareness Watching Awareness Method is a whole and complete practice,
and as long as you are satisfied with the new life the Awareness Watching
Awareness Method gives you, you need no other practice.
The Abandon Release Method is Passive.
The Awareness Watching Awareness Method can be done actively with effort
or passively with little or no effort.
Which method you choose to practice, the Abandon Release Method or the
Awareness Watching Awareness Method is up to you.
The Abandon Release Method is the most restful of the two methods.
The suggested order is to try the Abandon Release Method first.
Whichever method you choose, it is important to give the method a fair
chance by practicing the method for at least two hours everyday for six
months.