Become invisible🔗

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

You are accustomed to always seeing yourself as the object of others' eyes. That is why, your entire identity is based on the roles that you play in the outer world. You have become so used to this idea that even you start regarding yourself from the outside! Even in your own eyes, you have become just a social entity. Not only physically, but mentally and emotionally also, you always measure yourself based on the judgments of society. You have forgotten that you are not an object that someone else can evaluate. You are the subject, the seer of this entire drama. We are afraid to feel so powerful, so majestic!

In this technique, you will use visualization to go beyond this constant body identification. For a change, experience yourself as you really are - as pure bodiless awareness, the unchanging witness of this changing world!

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Whenever you are moving in a public place, just imagine that you have become invisible! Continuously visualize that you no longer exist as a person, as a body – you have become a pure awareness that no one can see or contact.

You can see everything, but you cannot be seen. You are free to witness the whole show of the world, but none can witness or evaluate you. This technique may sound simple, but you cannot imagine its impact! Your awareness, which was flowing into a hundred things outside yourself, now remains rooted in the inner witness.

With this single visualization, you experience a tremendous sense of power, of freedom. You realize that you are truly more than everything that you see around you. The objective world can disturb you, frighten you, only as long as you feel that it is more powerful than yourself. Once you see the seer, the seen shrinks into insignificance.

Remember, I am

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

This is a technique to be aware of yourself at every moment, in every action. While using any of the five senses, continuously remember the awareness behind them. It is you who sees through your eyes, the eyes themselves don’t see! The ears don’t hear, the eyes don’t see, and the nose does not smell, they are just windows. While looking at something don’t be lost in it, remember the awareness that is behind it. While listening to music, don’t forget yourself in the ear, remember the awareness behind it. Return again and again to the unchanging center in this changing world!

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All you have to do is remember yourself, remember I am - when you are eating, drinking, walking, talking. Be aware, I am, and discover within yourself an ever-living current. Don't imagine it is simple. We cannot maintain our awareness on ourselves for more than a few seconds. Then we forget. You think you are remembering, but your mind has already jumped to a new thought! Self-remembrance is NOT thinking; it is simply awareness. If you think, I am, you have missed the point. That is what we usually end up doing - repeating the words, I am, I am. The words are not the experience. Don't verbalize. Just feel, I am. Don't think about it. When you are walking, stop for a moment and be aware that you are. Remember who the seer is. When you open your eyes, understand that you are seeing through the eyes. You are not seeing. When you touch something, just feel the touch. When someone touches you, feel the touch, feel the one who is being touched. Carry this awareness. Be aware that you are experiencing the sun on your face, the wind in your hair. Be aware of the one who is experiencing. Just feel, I am. Then suddenly, you will see that your whole energy is centered in the ajna chakra. For a moment, you will be thrown back into yourself! You get a glimpse of deep silence, of reality. Your consciousness becomes sharper. You will see things more clearly, in more detail like how you see things as fresh after it rains. Retain this awareness at all times. As you practice this, your awareness becomes more and more centered on yourself. When you are centered within, there can be no attachment, no detachment, no craving, no suffering. When the seer is realized, the seen can no longer affect you.

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

This technique sounds like a punishment, or a curse! But its impact is just the opposite. We feel that not being able to move the body is torture. Not being able to move the mind is unimaginable! When we cannot move our body or mind, it is like death. But if we can enter into this death just once, we experience ourselves as Life itself.

INSTRUCTIONS

Duration: One hour minimum

Step 1: Sit on the floor with your eyes closed. You are going to become a stone - so get prepared! Try to roll your body into a firm ball – wrap your hands around your knees, put your face down between your knees; breathe as silently as if you are not breathing.

Step 2: Now, visualize clearly that you have turned into a stone – a big, shapeless stone. You have no limbs, no power of movement. Do not allow even the slightest movements in your body. All kinds of aches and pains and itches will come up. Just ignore them! How can you move, when you are a stone? Just remain absolutely still. If you hold on, you will see that in a while the body settles down in silence. Your body has really turned into stone.

Step 3: Now, without moving your body, stop the movement of your mind. When your body cannot move, the mind starts jumping! Stop the mind.

Feel very clearly that your mind is dead. You are just a stone, so you cannot have the power to think. Don't stop your thoughts one by one – just stop all thoughts. You can do it. Just enter deeply into the blank left by the dying thoughts. Just wipe yourself out of existence. Experience yourself as dead. Don't think about it! Enter into it. You are now a lifeless stone.

Suddenly you will see, even when body and mind are no more, there is something in you which says, 'I'! There is a continuous experience of 'I' which refuses to die. There is a pure awareness in you, that is not different from you. That awareness itself is you. You can never be conscious of your own non-existence, because your consciousness itself is that 'I'! When all that can die has died, only that remains which can never die.

If you can have even a single glimpse of this truth, it can just explode you! Even though you will continue to live with body and mind, you will never again lose yourself in the body and mind.