Feel an object before you. Feel the absence of all other objects but this one. Then, leaving aside the object-feeling and the absence-feeling, realize.
- Two parts, done separately over time — do NOT attempt both in one sitting. The mind urges you to try the whole thing at once; if you comply, part 2 fails and the mind concludes ‘it doesn’t work.’ The sequence is load-bearing.
- Part 1 — FEEL the object (e.g. a rose), not merely see it: close the eyes, touch it to the face and eyes, smell it, hold it to the heart. Use the SAME object every session (switching restarts the work from zero). Let only this object exist; forget the whole world (this is what love does — total absorption, all else absent). Marker: ‘I have become the roseflower.’ Women and children do this easily; a developed aesthetic sense (poet, painter, musician) helps. Start with something you naturally love — even a rock (Zen rock gardens: if you can love a rock, no man can block you).
- Master part 1 ALONE for days or weeks before touching part 2 — it is powerful in itself (vital, concentrated). Only when the world collapses to the one object effortlessly and automatically, with no struggle, is part 2 accessible. Not before.
- Part 2 — drop the object too: close the eyes and let go of BOTH the object-feeling AND the absence-feeling of everything else. You fall into an absolute vacuum — nothing remains but pure subjectivity: consciousness as a flame with no object, light falling on nothing. Realize THAT — it is your nature.
- Load-bearing image: a lamp lights every object in a dark room; narrow it to one object; then remove that object — only the light itself remains, illuminating nothing. That unoccupied consciousness is you.
- Q&A (Q4) — ‘if identification is the only sin, why merge with the rose?’ The sin is UNCONSCIOUS identification (with your name, nation, flag — you never notice it happening). Consciously merging with the rose, fully aware of the whole process, IS meditation. Any act done with full alertness becomes meditation; any technique done as unconscious routine stops being meditation. The content of the act is irrelevant; the presence or absence of consciousness is everything.