 124. Philosophy � Greek |
MEDITATION
Enter into the "consideration" (or deep, profound, and most direct exploration) of Consciousness Itself, until Its inherently Perfect "Location," Condition (State, or Self-Nature), and Ultimate Status are Realized.
This is a matter of relaxing attention (which is the functional essence of the conditional self) from its objects (which are, variously, in the form of ego-idea, mind, emotion, internal life-energy, desire, body, and their relations) and allowing attention to be relaxed (and resolved) into its Source-Condition.
This is not a matter of inverting attention upon (and thus meditating on) the conditional "I" or egoic self (in the manner of Narcissus).
This is not a matter of worshipping, inverting upon, meditating on, or identifying with the objective (or otherwise Witnessed) inner functional self (or the conditional essence of egoity).
This is a matter, first of all, of Understanding that the (conditional) essence of the conditional self is not an entity, but it is the inherently self-contracted activity of functional attention.
Consciousness Itself, apparently associated (and even identified) with functional attention (and, therefore, tending to identify Itself with the functional "I," or the self-contracted body-mind, self-contracted from the apparently threatening field of conditional Nature and from the Universal, and apparently Independent, Objective Energy That pervades all of conditional Nature), must Understand Itself (or Its Own Error), and (Thereby, and Thus Inherently) Transcend the self-contraction by Realizing the inherent (Obvious and inherently Perfect) Condition (or Status) of Consciousness Itself (Which Is Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Transcendental, inherently Spiritual, and necessarily Divine Being and Happiness, or Love-Bliss).
The meditative practice (or the practice of direct Identification) whereby the Transcendental, inherently Spiritual, and necessarily Divine Condition of Consciousness (Itself) is Realized may appear, to an external observer, to involve inversion upon the inner conditional and individuated self, but it is not in fact a process of inversion upon the inner conditional and individuated self.
Right meditation (in the form of direct Identification with Consciousness Itself) is the most direct means for transcending the ego, or the separate and separative (self-contracting) conditional self. Right meditation turns the essential or basic self-consciousness (or attention-consciousness) to the "consideration" of That (or the inherently Perfect Condition) in Which attention (and thus the individuated and conditional self-consciousness) is always presently arising.
Therefore, the process of meditation is not a matter of the extroversion of attention toward any object, nor is it a matter of the "Narcissistic" introversion of attention upon the subjective interior of the body-mind or egoic self.
It is a matter of the yielding (or dissolving) of attention (or conditional self-consciousness) in the Source-Condition from (or in) Which it is presently and always arising.
It is simply a matter of Standing As Consciousness Itself (rather than turning attention outward, inward, or toward Consciousness Itself).
