Meditate on the make-believe world as burning to ashes, and become being above human.
- Relation to Technique 1: if you can burn your own body, the world dissolves with it automatically — your body IS the world; through it you are related to everything. So you need not do this one separately if burning the body already works.
- Direct route if Technique 1 is too hard: the toes may still feel too close to the ego — so start even farther out, with the whole world. Burn the world first; once it is burning, burning yourself within it becomes easy. Move outermost-to-innermost.
- Imagination must become physically real, not merely verbal. Test: interlace both hands, close the eyes, imagine for ten minutes that they are locked and cannot open, then try to open them. About forty percent genuinely cannot — imagination has become real for them, and they can enter this technique immediately; the rest need training first.
- We already use imagination negatively without knowing: when a flu reaches the city, most cases are caught through imagined susceptibility, not contact. The same faculty, deliberately trained, can dissolve the ego.
- When the whole world is seen burning to ashes, you have gone above human — a superhuman (beyond-ego) consciousness has been tasted.