

The 5 levels of Meditation ~ from Chanting to focusing on the breath and to eventually ‘Just Being’
Meditation is a vast and vague subject. With the below writeup, considering my intense experience with various techniques of meditation, i attempt to define/draw out the various levels of Meditation a seeker goes through. Hope this becomes a convenient guide for new and old Meditators to experience and understand Meditation in greater depth.

Deep Meditation is an experience of Death in life ~ Osho
You come to your innermost center where there is only pure awareness. That pure awareness will be with you when you die because that cannot be taken away. All these other things which can be taken away, we take away with our own hands in meditation.

The four parts of the Mind ~ S.N. Goenka
In the referenced video, S.N. Goenka goes on to explain the four different parts of the mind.
1. Vinnyana or Consciousness
2. Sanya or Perception
3. Vedhana or Sensation
4. Sankhara or Reaction

Knowing and loving the ~ Energy Body ~ Select quotes from Jane Klein
We must look at our body completely objectively, as we look at a tree or a table or any object which does not have a strong psychological impact on us. We will then feel, without comment, the weight, contraction, agitation, and so on.
We accept the facts without psychological: interference. In accepting the sensation of the body—accepting, not tolerating—the various sensations can come fully into our acceptance, our awareness.

Vijnana Bhairava Tantra on focusing awareness between breaths
Oh Bhairavi,
by focusing one’s awareness on the two voids (at the end)
of the internal and external breath,
thereby the glorious form of Bhairava is revealed
through Bhairavi.
~ Vijnana Bhairava Tantra

Our essential nature is 🌺pure consciousness. It Just Is ~ Billy Doyle
There are no steps to self realization ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

The life I am trying to grasp is the ME that is trying to grasp it ~ RD Laing
There are no steps to self realization ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Select quotations on Self Enquiry and Centering Awareness from the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra
When the awareness has abandoned one object and remains fixed without moving on to another object, then through the state in between (the two) the supreme realisation will unfold. ~ Verse 62
One should concentrate on the state when sleep has not yet come, but the external awareness has disappeared (between waking and sleep)—there the supreme Goddess reveals herself. ~ Verse 75

Who is the Knower ? ~ Billy Doyle
It is Ignorance to know the diversity of the whole world and never to have asked, Who is the Knower ? ~ Billy Doyle

Krishnamurti ~ In the gap between the Subject and the Object lies the entire misery of humankind
In the gap between the Subject and the Object lies the entire misery of humankind ~ Krishnamurti

Li Po ~ Witnessing ~ Until only the Mountain remains
“The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.” Li Po

Osho on seeing things just as they are
“Start seeing things without naming them, without labeling them, without saying good or bad, without dividing them. Just see and allow the fact to be there in your presence without any judgement, condemnation, appreciation, whatsoever ~ Osho

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone ~ Alan Watts
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone ~ Alan Watts

Empty words ~ Atmananda krishna menon
When you find that what you see is only yourself, the ‘seeing’ and ‘objects’ become mere empty words..- Atmananda krishna menon

Form ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon
Form is nothing but seeing. ― Atmananda Krishna Menon

You know nothing ~ Krishnamurti
Forget all you know about yourself; forget all you have ever thought about yourself; start as if you know nothing. — Krishnamurti

Need nothing ~ Gangaji
“Need nothing and then see what happens.” – Gangaji

Essential core of Osho’s Teaching
Witnessing is concerned with the body, the second with the mind, the third with the heart. And when you become capable of watching the third too, the fourth happens on its own accord. Suddenly a quantum leap and you are standing exactly at the very center of your being, where there is nothing to be aware of. Awareness is aware of itself, Consciousness is conscious of itself.

Meditation make you more ‘You’ ~ David Lynch
The thing about meditation is: You become more and more You. – David Lynch