Suppose your passive form to be an empty room with walls of skin — empty.
- Concrete instruction: Sit in SIDDHASANA (or equivalent passive posture), backbone straight, body relaxed as if hanging on the spine. Close eyes. Settle for a few moments. Then suddenly feel the body as just walls of skin — nothing inside, the house vacant.
- Passivity is the hinge: ‘Don’t meditate — be in meditation.’ The moment you do anything, a doer crystallizes. SIDDHASANA is prescribed because it locks the body’s energy circuit (minimizes leakage and gravitational pull), making it the most passive posture — even lying down is more active. In passivity the doer has no foothold.
- When thoughts come, do not claim them: they are rootless clouds in an empty sky, belonging to no one. Resist the urge to follow or fight; say ‘there is no one to indulge.’ Within weeks the gaps widen; in those gaps the first glimpse of emptiness arrives as wordless bliss — ‘happiness will be there, but you will not be there.’
- Why it works: disturbances are not outside you — you are the sensitive wound that creates them (sound needs ears; light needs eyes; perfume needs a nose). When the ‘you’ thins out, things pass through untouched. ‘When you are not, God is; when you are not, bliss is.’
- Prerequisite — courage/temperament (from Q&A Q1, applies to all four emptiness techniques): if the idea of emptiness frightens you, these four techniques are not suitable — use positive techniques instead. Only with genuine readiness to dissolve completely should you approach this. Calling the inner space ‘Being’ or ‘non-being’ is equally valid; both reach identical ground, only temperament differs.
- Early-stage caution (from Q&A Q3): seekers still need protected, quiet conditions until inwardly crystallized. Do not rationalize staying in noise with ‘disturbance is only inside.’ Move into solitariness, attain silence there, bring it back to daily life and test it. Only when nothing can shake the inner center is solitariness irrelevant — until then, be honest about needing it.