the map of meditation

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THE MAP OF INDIVIDUAL HUMAN LIFE & CONSCIOUSNESS: koosradha

As human beings, we are unit representatives of the human race, with a dominant

sexual identity and certain dominant traits that we have inherited from our prior life,

that is, as the fused gametes in the intra-uterine matrix.

We are born out of the fusion of two living gametes in the womb of a biological

mother, which has sustained and nourished the new life-animated unit human

organism. At the moment of fusion, an individual seat of undivided life is triggered,

which preserves, permeates and permits the new emerging organism to prepare

itself in a protected living environment or matrix before being projected into the

outer field of existence and experience. Once delivered to the outside field of

existence, the life-breath is triggered by the seat of life hidden at the deepest core of

the living organism and the unit becomes an autonomous alive unit, which is still

dependent on the immediate environment for its survival and further growth.

As long as the individual seat of undivided life (s-o-u-l), which is a very subtle core

state of energy, is active and operative, the organism is preserved and continues to

live and grow as a unit organism. If, for any serious reason, the seat of undivided

life becomes inoperative and is completely and irremediably switched off, death of

the individual organism ensures. It can no more function as an autonomous living

individual seat as the unit preserving force is no longer active. The organism then is

de-structured and the seat of experience and consciousness becomes inoperative in

that organism. Thus the individual seat of undivided life is also the individual seat

of death for any unit of life, matter and consciousness. As its energy expands

outwards, it exudes a sense of aliveness and as its energy withdraws towards the

unconscious realms, it exudes a sense of absence and death. This seat has been

called the core as well as the root of individual consciousness. It is grounded in

THAT which has been described only in terms of what it is not: timeless, boundless,

non-dual, deathless, birthless, changeless, etc.


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As the life-sustained unit organism grows and develops, it experiences, through its

functional bodily instruments and mental faculties and abilities, knowable objects of

experience, events, entities, emotions, sensations and eventually thoughts in its field

of experience, which has inner and outer dimensions. Gradually, a seat of

experience emerges, which processes all experiencing occurring to and through the

living organism, operating in its inner and outer fields. This seat of experience

processing generates in consciousness (knowledge) the operative sense of being an

individual, an ego, which comes into being when the individual person relates and

communicates to other individual units and to different aspects of itself.

This ego sense or thought is in fact the essence of the personal consciousness of theindividual and it is made up of a flow into the now of accumulated subconscious

personal memories synthesised in the form of words and images. The ego is nothing

but a pale reflection (shadow) of the individual seat of undivided life dimly

apprehended by the dissipated mental attention during the wakeful state. Being a

product of subconscious materials, ego-thought is a mechanical self-communication

factor interfering with attention and direct experiencing. Believing itself to be the

seat of individual life, the ego-centre makes as if all of the individuals

experiences happen through its agency and as if all of the experiences happens to

it. Ego is the sense of identification with the body-mind complex sustained by

hidden the seat of life and it appropriates all experiences through inner talking out.

It functions at a very crude level of consciousness in that it is concerned with the

body-mind-complexs personal protection, pleasure, power, profit, progress and

prosperity. It focuses on its personal continuity, gratification and expansion and

separates itself from everything not connected with the individual body-mind-

complex and with its areas of personal concern.

In actuality, the real experiencer (so to say) is the seat of undivided life sustaining

the body-mind complex. This seat of life and death, through its core connection and


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association with the body-mind complex, undergoes the experience of the wakeful

state, of the dream state and of the deep sleep state. During the wakeful state, the

seat, which is total aliveness, triggers attention in consciousness, through which

experiencing occurs and the operative unit acts, interacts and reacts in the external

field. During the dream state, it withdraws consciousness from the externalised

field into the inner realm; it triggers semi-conscious attention and permits the active

discharge of dominant accumulated past materials. During deep sleep or absorption

state, where it absorbs residual mental attention into unconsciousness or absence, it

triggers the passive recharging and healing of the organism. As the seat of life is

much closer to the deeper unconscious state of the mind, the regenerating effects of

its underlying presence is greater at that level.

In the normal wakeful state, owing to the activity of thought and ego, there is only

partial attention. In both the dream and deep sleep state, the individual seat of

undivided life underlying the individual unit of life and consciousness, is devoid of

the all-revealing light of attention through which it reflects itself in consciousness.

The ego-thought, being a factor of inattention and interference, cannot operate in

the field of full attention despite being manifest at the wakeful state of experiencing

and thus cannot apprehend or comprehend the hidden underlying seat of undivided

life. Thus only the energy of full attention can connect to that hidden root, which is

both life and death.

This energy of full attention comes into being when the mind is totally alert in the

present moment, without the need or drive to move away from the ceaseless flow of

pure experiencing. This anchoring in the now with full undivided attention is called

meditation. Through meditation, the attention of the alert and sensitive mind

expands into the realms of dreaming and deep sleep towards the seat of aliveness

and awareness. Sinking into the deeper realms is akin to dying and may trigger the

fear of death in that movement. However, letting go and silently surrendering to the


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core brings one to a new dimension beyond death. Consciousness is no longer

divided into conscious, subconscious and unconscious realms, into living and dead.

It is a whole, integrated, undivided field of aliveness and awareness. However, just

like the mind cannot live for ever in the wakeful, dream or deep sleep, it has to

move out of the super-conscious witnessing aliveness into the normal wakeful plane

of existence.

Nonetheless, the connection with and the vision of the seat of undivided life are

now more prominent in consciousness and the ego is pushed into its real subsidiary

role and place as a mere communication tool. A new sense of lightfulness,

lifefulness and delightfulness permeates the mind during the wakeful state. Evenduring the dream state, there may be moments of attention. One feels the joy of

being alive and of experiencing as an extraordinary gift of life. There is a continual

celebration of aliveness and awareness.


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Keys:

A : The Unborn Imperishable Ground of Undivided Life, the Absolute

B : The Individual Seat Of Undivided Life (The realm of life and death; the

doorway of being and non-being; the seat of sustenance; the entry and exit point ofindividuality. The sense of being, the feeling of I AM, the core or root of

individuality rooted into the Ground.)


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C : The Unconscious state of consciousness (deep sleep, absorption, absence,unconsciousness; the passive recharging and healing of the organism; death: eternal

sleep, irremediable absence.)

D : The Subconscious state of consciousness (inner realm of dreaming, no

identification with a particular body-mind complex; no dominant sense of ego;subconscious fluctuating residual attention, active discharge of dominant

accumulated past experiences of sensations, objects, events, entities, emotions andthoughts or ideas through stories and scenarios.)

E : The Conscious state of consciousness (the wakeful consciousness andexperiencing of inner and outer fields of experience; a sense of partial and

fluctuating conscious attention to the objects, sensations, events, entities, emotionsand thoughts through the active and interactive operations of the functional sensoryorgans and the seat of consciousness made up of the mind, intellect, ego, impulse,

emotion, culture, memory, etc.)

F : The self-conscious identity or centre (the ego rooted in the flow of past

accumulated experiences; the dominant thought triggering other peripheral thoughtsand feelings; the restrictive and separative sense of being a body-mind complex

acting in isolation from the rest of existence; the shadow emerging from the

subconscious realm and sucking attention into its own sphere of concern; theappropriator, the usurpator.)

G : The Brain and its connection to the individual body, breath, states of

consciousness and the seat of undivided life.

H : The visible Body containing the brain, the seat of consciousness, the

instruments of experience, and the seat of undivided life.

I : The Breath (incoming and outgoing) connecting the body and brain with the

individual seat of undivided life. The breath is rooted in the seat of life.

J : The functional Instruments of experiencing and acting (the functional sense

organs such as the eyes, the ears, the nose, the tongue and the skin as well as the

functional organs of action such as the hands, the feet, the mouth, the genitals, theanus, etc.)

K : The externalised Field of wakeful experience, made up of objects (natural,

thought-made), events (natural, social), entities (biological units of the differentspecies), sensations (bodily), emotions (needs, impulses, feelings, reactions),thoughts (ideas, concepts, beliefs), and actions and interactions functioning with the

parameters of time and space.


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L : Inner and outer fields interactions (day-dreaming, inner-mind chattering,

self-talking, mental background processing interfering with actual experiencing.)

M : Inner Field of dreamful subconscious experiencing with its dream objects,

space, time, events, thoughts, feelings, impulses, entities, actions, interactions, etc.

N : Hidden, Unconscious Field of sleep with no subject-object relationship, withno action, no sensation, no-thing, no-one; darkness, absence with the possibility ofcoming back from the state and recalling having been in that state.

O : Hidden, Latent Field of Aliveness, of Being when there is the possibility of

coming back from the field, and of Death, of non-being when there is no possibilityof coming back from that station or dimension. This centre is rooted into theGround of everything, which is the Absolute, beyond being and non-being.

P : The realms of perishability resting on the Imperishable Ground.

MEDITATION: A process of going deeper into consciousness and sinking into the

seat of undivided life, at the root of our being.

Level 1. Meditation, through conscious relaxation, letting go and turning attention

on the immediate experiencing, is a process of attending to the body, bodilysensations and breath movements in the herenow.

Level 2. At a deeper level, attention gradually moves from the conscious outgoing

consciousness of things, events, entities, sensations, etc to the deeper inner layers.

As attention moves from the body, bodily sensations, breath movements into the

awareness of thoughts, feelings, inner chatterings, one feels an absorption into anew inner space of expansion, of wellbeing and presence.

Level 3. Sinking deeper still, with as much attention as possible without being

overpowered by sleep, one is absorbed into a boundless space of emptiness, of non-

existence, of temporary death.

Level 4. Letting ones attention sink deeper still, one reaches a new dimension of being, of aliveness, of a refreshing awareness of boundless being, beyond death,

beyond personal boundaries, beyond concepts of separateness. This is the root of

our being, of our real, deeper self, which is always anchored into the Ground ofexistence, of manifestation, of anything, of everything and of nothing.


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Koosradha: 15.08.2010

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