Be Consciousness.

Contemplate Consciousness.

Transcend everything in Consciousness.

This is the Epitome of the Way of Truth.

Be consciousness, inherently free in relation to all objects.

Consider that you are (functionally and in fact) consciousness, freely witnessing and being played upon (but not actually changed) by body, life-energy, emotion, mind, self-idea, and all relations.

Then be consciousness, and function as (or from the position of) consciousness itself, instead of persisting in the conventional and functionally untrue presumption that you are a bodymind (or an always already modified, qualified, limited, defined, and named conditional or psychophysical entity).

To be and function as (or from the point of view of) consciousness is not itself to Realise what consciousness is (or its ultimate Status), but it is to be in the obvious right or factual attitude or disposition, as consciousness in free relationship to experience.

To be consciousness (related to rather than identical to all that is seeming to be self) is to be free as consciousness itself (rather than a consciousness mechanically bound by a presumption of identity rather than relatedness in the context of the body-mind).

The bodymind is what you call "I".

Consciousness as the bodymind is Narcissus, the separate and separative ego (or self contraction), identical to experience.

In the state of identification with the bodymind, consciousness is a subject suffering from the absurd presumption that it is identical to its own object.

Consciousness itself is inherently and always prior to experience.

Consciousness is always only related to experience, and, therefore, it is never, as itself, an expression, result, container, servant, or prisoner of experience.

Consciousness is inherently free of the implications or effects of the bodymind and the cosmos of Nature.

Consciousness is not unhappy, afraid, sorrowful, depressed, angry, hungry, lustful, thoughtful, threatened by bodily mortality, or implicated in the alternately pleasurable (or positive) and painful (or negative) states of the body and of Nature.

Consciousness is presently, always, and only related to (or witnessing and seeming to be played upon by) the mechanical or functional states of the bodymind in the realm of Nature.

Therefore, to be and function as consciousness (in relation to the bodymind and all of Nature rather than identical to the bodymind in Nature) is to maintain a free disposition that is inherently Indifferent (or in a detached or non-attached state of equanimity) relative to the causes, effects, changes, and present state of the bodymind and all of Nature.

To be or function as free consciousness in relation to every moment is the "pure" or inherently balanced disposition, and that disposition will inevitably cause or permit the bodymind also to achieve a natural state of equanimity.

Therefore, be and function as consciousness, which is inherently in a state of equanimity, and, in that disposition, freely cause or permit the bodymind to achieve a state of balance and case, free of reactivity and obsession.

When this has been done, energy and attention are free of bondage to the "I" of Narcissus, and thus free for the second stage of the Perfect Practice.

Contemplate or meditate on consciousness itself, prior to all objects, until its Transcendental Condition becomes Obvious.

Enter into the consideration (or deep, profound and most direct exploration) of consciousness itself, until its Location, Condition, Nature, State, and Status are Realised.

This is a matter of turning attention (which is the functioning consciousness or essence of self) from its objects (in the form of selfidea, mind, emotion, internal life-energy, desire, body, and their relations) and to, its Source Condition.

It is not a matter of inverting upon or meditating on the "I" or egoic self (in the manner of Narcissus).

It is not a matter of worshipping, inverting upon, meditating on, or identifying with the objective (or witnessed) inner self, or essence of egoity.

It is a matter, first of all, of understanding that the essential self is not an entity but the activity of manifest or functional attention.

Consciousness as attention (tending to identify itself with the "I" or bodymind and to contract, via the bodymind, from the threatening field of Nature, or from the Universal Objective Energy that pervades all of Nature) must understand itself (or its own error) and transcend or Realise itself in its own Source-Condition (which is Radiant Transcendental Divine Being, Consciousness, and Happiness, or Love-Bliss).

In appearance, the meditative practice whereby the Condition of consciousness is Realised involves inversion upon the inner self, but it is not in fact a process of inversion upon the conditional and individuated self.

Rather, right meditative inversion is the most direct means for transcending the ego, or the separate and separative self, by turning the essential or basic self-consciousness (or consciousness as attention) to the consideration of That in which attention (and thus the individuated and conditional self-consciousness) is always presently arising.

Therefore, right meditative practice is not a matter of the extroversion of attention toward any object, nor is it a matter of the Narcissistic introversion of attention upon the subjective interior of the bodymind or egoic self.

It is a matter of the yielding (or dissolving) of attention (or self-consciousness itself) into the Source-Condition from which it is presently and always arising.

The practice in its most direct form is a matter of passively allowing attention to settle spontaneously in the primal Feeling of Being, or move naturally into the primal Feeling of Happiness, or even move toward any object it will (or any object that you might choose as a focus of attention) in any moment, but, in the moment of the arising of any "present object" of attention, That to Which (or in Whom) attention, or the "present object," or Happiness is arising should be Noticed and entered into (or identified with) most profoundly.

This practice is best done by first gazing and then feeling into the region of the right side of the heart (which is the place from which attention first emerges), so that the "present object" that is attention itself (or the most rudimentary self-consciousness and object-consciousness) may be considered there (free of distraction by the outgoing motives of the bodymind), until the primal Feeling of Being or Happiness is Located in the right side of the heart.

Then continue to merge attention in that Happiness, until the Subjective Space of Consciousness, or the Feeling of Being, becomes Obvious beyond the objective heart-focus.

This gazing and feeling is naturally made possible by the submission of attention to the Attractiveness of the Current of Feeling itself (at Its Root or point of Origin, rather than at any other point in the body).

The bodily Root or Origin of the primary Feeling of Being is Located (or Found) in the right side of the heart as the Feeling of profound, constant, original, uncaused, and unqualified Happiness (or Love-Bliss).

That Current of Happiness is Transmitted, Revealed, intensified, and made Attractive by Grace in the Company of the Adept Spiritual Master.

Gradually, this practice becomes profound Identification with Being or Consciousness Itself, prior to individuation as a self, prior to any objective referents, and prior to the primary sense of relatedness, so that Its State and Status are Obvious as Transcendental Being and Eternal Love-Bliss, or Self-Radiant Happiness.

Abide as Transcendental Consciousness, inherently transcending but not strategically excluding or seeking any or all objects, and thus tacitly recognise all objects in and as Radiant Transcendental Being, Consciousness, Love-Bliss, or Happiness, until all objects are Outshined in That.

Consciousness, or Being Itself, is Transcendental, or prior to attention in the cosmic or conditional realm of Nature.

Transcendental Consciousness is Reality, or the Source-Condition of attention, self, bodymind, and all of Nature (including the universal or all-pervading and apparently Objective Energy of which all the objects, conditions, states, or manifest individuals in Nature are composed).

When Transcendental Consciousness, or the simple Feeling of Being, is Awakened as the Real "I" or Self, the indefinable identity of consciousness, or the Infinite Source-Condition of attention, then the ego-"I", or self contraction, or self-possessed body-mind is transcended, and the Condition of Nature is Obvious, even in the moment of spontaneous attention to the conditions and relations of the body-mind.

Such Obviousness is the primary characteristic of the Awakening to the ultimate or Enlightened stage of life, and only that Awakening manifests as the capability for fulfilling and completing the third stage of the Perfect Practice, which is the ultimate and radical form of the Way that I Teach.

Therefore, when Identification with the Transcendental Divine Consciousness, or Feeling of Being, is complete (tacit, uncaused, and undisturbed), simply Abide as That and allow all conditions (or all of Nature) to arise or not arise in the Self-Radiance and Subjective Space of Transcendental Being.

As conditions arise in That "open-eyed" or Radiant Consciousness, they are recognised (and inherently transcended) as transparent, or merely apparent, unnecessary, and non-binding modifications of That.

Abiding and recognising thus, let actions arise spontaneously in and via the inherent Love-Bliss of Radiant Transcendental Being, until all conditions (of self and/or not-self) are Transfigured, Transformed, and then Translated (or Outshined) in the Radiant Transcendental Being (Who is the heart, the Divine Condition, and the Free Domain of all beings).

This Perfect Practice is the Epitome of the consideration and practice of the Way that I Teach. It is the basis on which all of the philosophy and every discipline associated with this Way are developed and fulfilled. Therefore, this book is the Epitome of all that I am here to say to you about the Realisation of Truth and Happiness.