Death-simulating meditative practices. Meditation Technique “Entering Death”

If you resist death, you lose the greatest mystery. If you resist death, you lose life itself, for they are closely intertwined with each other; they are inseparable. Life is growth, death is its flowering. The journey and the destination are not separate - the journey ends with the destination.

Entering Death

Shiva said: Focus on the fire rising in your form from the feet upward until the body burns to ashes, but not you.

Buddha was very fond of this meditation technique; he initiated his students into it

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Whenever the Buddha initiated someone, he first advised the initiate to go to the cremation ground and watch how dead bodies are burned. For three months he didn't have to do anything, just sit there and watch.

Buddha said: “Don't think about it. Just look". And this is difficult, it is difficult not to think that sooner or later your body will also be burned. Three months is a long time, and constantly, day and night, whenever someone's body was burned, the seeker had to meditate. Sooner or later he began to see his own body on the funeral pyre. He saw that he was burning himself.

Remember: whether you are afraid of death or not, death is the only unconditional fact. There is nothing absolute in life, except death. Everything is uncertain; only death is an absolute fact. Everything else is random - it may happen or it may not happen - one death is not accidental. But look at the human mind. We always talk about death as if it were an accident. Whenever someone dies, we say that his death was premature, we say that it was like an accident. But death is not an accident - only death. Everything else is random. Death is absolutely certain. You must die.

When I say that you must die, it seems to you that this will happen in the distant future, not very soon. This is not true - you are already dead. You died the moment you were born. With birth, death became inevitable. One part of this inevitability has already happened - birth, now the second, final part must happen. Therefore, you are already dead, half-dead, because having been born, a person enters the kingdom of death, enters it. Now nothing will change this, nothing can be changed. You have entered death. You are half dead from birth.

Remember: death will not happen at the end of life, it is already happening. Death is a process. Just like life is a process, death is also a process. We create duality, but life and death are like your two feet, two legs. Life and death form a single process. You die every second.

Let me explain it this way: whenever you inhale, it is life, and whenever you exhale, it is death.

The first thing a newborn does is inhale. The child cannot breathe out. First he inhales. He cannot exhale because there is no air in his lungs yet; he must inhale. The first action is inhalation. And the last action of a dying old man will be to exhale. When you die, you cannot breathe - do you know this? When you die, you cannot breathe. The last action cannot be inhalation; the last action is exhalation. The first action is inhalation, the last is exhalation. Inhalation is birth, exhalation is death. Every second you do one thing or another - inhale and exhale. Inhalation is life, exhalation is death.

You may not have noticed this, but try to observe it. Whenever you exhale, you become more peaceful. Take a deep breath and you will feel some peace within yourself. And every time you inhale, you become tense, tense. The tension of inhalation creates tension in you. And the natural emphasis is always on inhalation. If I tell you to breathe deeply, you will definitely start with an inhale.

In fact, we are afraid of exhalation. That's why the breathing has become so shallow. You never exhale, you only inhale. Only your body exhales, because the body cannot exist on one inhalation. He needs both: life and death.

Step one:

Try one experiment. Throughout the day, as soon as you remember this, exhale deeply and do not inhale. Let the body inhale, just exhale. And you will feel deep peace, because death is peace, death is silence. If you pay more attention to the exhalation, you will feel unselfish. When you inhale you will feel more selfish, when you exhale you will feel less selfish. Pay more attention to your exhalation. Throughout the day, as soon as you remember this, exhale deeply and do not inhale. Let your body inhale, but don’t do it yourself.

Death is amazing, because there is nothing like death - so silent, relaxing, quiet, calm. But we are afraid of death. And why? Where does our fear of death come from? We are afraid of death not because of death itself - because it is unknown to us. How can you be afraid of something you haven't encountered yet? How can you be afraid of what you don't know? To be afraid of something, you must at least know it. So it's not actually death that you're afraid of; your fear is something else. In reality you have never lived - that is what causes the fear of death.

Fear arises because you have not lived yet, so you are afraid: “I have not lived yet, and if death comes, then what? Having not experienced satisfaction from life, having not lived at all, I will already die.” The fear of death appears only in those who are not alive enough. If you are alive, you will welcome death. In this case there is no fear. You have experienced life; Now we would like to know death. But we are so afraid of life that we do not know it, do not enter into it deeply. This gives rise to the fear of death.

If you want to enter into this meditation technique, you must become aware of your deepest fear. This fear must be dropped, you must free yourself from it, only then can you enter into this technique. Here's what will help you: pay more attention to the exhalation. Throughout the day you will feel relaxed and inner silence will arise.

Step two:

You will deepen this feeling if you do another experiment. Exhale deeply for fifteen minutes every day. Sit on a chair or on the ground and exhale deeply. As you exhale, close your eyes. When the air comes out, go inside. Now allow the body to inhale; and when the air comes in, open your eyes and go outside. Then do the opposite: when the air goes out, move in; when the air comes in, come out.

Before you try the technique below, do this experiment for fifteen minutes so that you are ready—and not only ready, but inviting, receptive. The fear of death disappears, now death looks like relaxation, like deep rest.

Step three:

Lay down on the ground. Imagine yourself dead; imagine that your body is a corpse. Lie down on the ground and focus your attention on your toes. With your eyes closed, move inward. Focus your attention on your toes and feel the fire rising up from there, burning everything in its path. As the fire rises higher, your body gradually disappears. Start at your toes and work your way up.

Why start with your toes? It will be easier this way, because the toes are very far from your “I”, from your ego. Your ego is in your head. You cannot start from the head, it is very difficult, so start from a distant point, and the toes are the point farthest from the ego. Start your fire from there. Feel that your toes have already been burned, that only ashes remain from them, and then little by little move upward, burning everything that the fire encounters on its way. All parts of the body, legs, hips will gradually disappear.

Try to see them turn to ashes. The fire rises upward, and those parts of the body through which it passed are no longer there; they turned to ashes. Keep moving up; eventually the head will disappear. You will become an observer on the hill. The body will remain, but dead, burned, turned into ashes, and you will be an observer, you will be a witness. The witness has no ego.

This technique is very useful for achieving a selfless state. Why? Because it affects so many things. It only seems simple, but in reality it is far from simple. Its internal mechanism is very complex. First: your memories are part of your body. Memory is material; that's why it can be recorded in brain cells. They are material, they are part of the body. Your brain cells can be operated on, and if some cells are removed, certain memories will disappear.

This is what you need to understand and remember: if memory exists, then the body exists, and that means you are fooling yourself. If you really feel deeply that the body is dead, burned, that the fire has completely destroyed it, then you have no memory. At this moment there is no observation of the mind. Everything will stop - there will not be a single movement of thought, there will be just observation, a vision of what happened.

Once you have passed through the ego, you will be able to remain in this state constantly. One day you will realize that you can separate yourself from the body, and this technique will become a method of separating yourself from the body, a method of creating a gap between you and the body, a method of staying outside the body for a few minutes. If you succeed, you will be able to remain in the body and at the same time be outside the body. You will live the same way you lived before, but you will no longer be the same.

This technique will take at least three months. Continue it. Success cannot be achieved in one day, but if you practice it one hour a day for three months, then one day your imagination will suddenly help you, a gap will arise, and you will actually see your body reduced to ashes. Then you can watch.

And by observing, you will comprehend one very deep phenomenon - that the ego is something false, non-existent. It existed only because you identified yourself with the body, with the thoughts, with the mind. You are neither one nor the other, neither mind nor body. You are different from everything around you; you are different from your periphery.

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Preparation

Sit comfortably and relax your body (you can also do this meditation lying down - but make sure you don't fall asleep!). Relax your mind by letting go or pushing aside any other thoughts - thoughts about the past, future, people, things to do, and so on. Resolve to keep your attention on the meditation and bring it back to the object whenever it wanders.
Motivation

Meditation
Create a good, altruistic motivation for doing the meditation, for example: “I am doing this meditation to better understand the reality of death, to prepare myself for death by doing as many spiritual practices as possible while alive. In this way, I can be of more benefit to others—I can help them overcome their fear of death, live their lives more wisely, and die in greater peace.”

The process of dying involves the gradual loss of physical, sensory and mental functions as the activity of the nervous system ceases from the outskirts to the depths.

Imagine dying a natural death and experiencing the following eight stages as the components of your mind and body gradually dissolve. At each stage, both external and internal signs arise. Try to imagine these experiences as clearly as possible.

In the first four stages of the death process, the mind is still at the gross level. The gross level of mind includes our thoughts and sense perceptions. As you progress through the first four stages, these factors gradually weaken.
The earth element is the quality of solidity in our body. When it dissolves, your body loses strength, becomes thinner and weaker, and you feel weak. You may feel like you are falling or sinking through the ground, and may find it difficult to sit up straight or hold anything. Your body color fades and your cheeks become sunken. In addition, vision becomes blurred; you find it difficult to open and close your eyes. These are the external signs of the first stage of the death process. The inner sign is the vision of a shimmering silver-blue mirage.

2. The water element dissolves; a vision of smoke appears
The element of water encompasses all the fluids in the body, as well as the quality of cohesion - what holds the individual parts together. When this element dissolves, you begin to feel dryness in your eyes, mouth and throat. It becomes difficult to move your tongue. Pleasant and unpleasant sensations in the body weaken. Hearing weakens; ringing in the ears disappears. Your mind may become foggy, feel frustrated, or become nervous. You experience an inner vision of haze with swirling clouds of smoke.

3. The fire element disintegrates; a vision of sparks appears
The fire element is the heat in our body. At this point, your mouth and nose are completely dry. Body heat begins to fade, usually in the direction from the legs and arms to the heart. You are no longer able to eat, drink or digest anything. Your mind alternates between becoming clear and cloudy. You are no longer able to remember the names of people, even relatives and friends; you may not even recognize them. Your sense of smell weakens and your breathing becomes difficult: inhalations become very weak, and exhalations become stronger and longer. You experience an inner vision, like sparks or fireflies dancing in space.

4. The air element dissolves; a vision of a dying flame appears
At this stage, you can no longer move your limbs; your body becomes motionless. Your mind becomes confused, losing awareness of the world around you. Everything is blurry. The feeling of contact with the outside world fades. The senses of taste and touch disappear. You may have visions - frightening (as a result of negative actions committed during life) or beautiful, joyful (as a result of good actions)... Breathing becomes more and more difficult, and then stops completely. Your last thoughts fade away, and an internal vision of a dim red-blue light or the last flickering of a candle flame that is about to go out appears.

Sense consciousness and gross thoughts have already disappeared at this stage, and during the subsequent four stages of the death process, the mind reaches increasingly subtler levels.

5. White Vision
At this stage, you have a vision of a very clear, empty sky, like an autumn sky, full of the bright white light of a full moon.

6. Red Vision
It is an inner vision, like a clear, empty sky, full of the reddish light of a copper-colored sunset.

7. Black Vision
This is a vision of complete darkness, a very dark and empty space. It ends with an instant and complete loss of consciousness.

8. Clear Light Vision
Now the mind has reached its most subtle level - the clear light of death. The emerging vision is like the autumn sky at dawn, completely clear, empty and full of clear, colorless light.

Keep your mind focused on this experience for as long as you can, without allowing your mind to be distracted by anything else. If he gets distracted, bring him back to the clear light experience. Remember that this is the purest, subtlest level of your mind...

When the clear light of death disappears, consciousness again goes through the stages of dissolution in reverse order: black vision, then red vision, and so on. As soon as this process begins, a person finds himself in an intermediate state (Tib. Bardo), in a subtle body that is capable of instantly traveling to any point that a person thinks about, passing through walls, and so on, in search of a new birth. The body form in the bardo is the one that a person will take in the next rebirth.

Life in the intermediate state can last from a few moments to seven days, depending on whether a suitable birthplace can be found. Having failed to find it for seven days, the creature goes through a “little death,” briefly experiencing the eight stages of death, first in forward and then in reverse order, receiving a new birth in an intermediate state. In total, this stay in the intermediate state can last up to seven rebirths, or forty-nine days, during which a new place of rebirth is sought.

Dedication
Dedicate the merits of meditation to being able to develop wisdom, compassion and other qualities and realizations that will allow you to free yourself from the cycle of death and rebirth so that you can help other beings also achieve liberation and true, lasting peace and happiness.

We are guided by our mind. The mind is hypnotic and we follow its commands. He convinces us that there is no death, that death is something that happens to others. And this is our greatest misfortune. Our mind is an opponent of death, and by resisting this sacrament, we lose it. Meditation on death can be represented by different techniques, for example, the “Entering Death” meditation technique is very popular. The whole essence of a person, his entire body, parts of the body, head, torso, legs, arms when meditating on death - everything is subordinated to one thing: the desire to reconcile a person with the great mystery of life, to bring him closer to the awareness of death as a new birth.

Strong meditation on death - you will be imbued with the state of death

How can there not be death if it is always near you? Every time you breathe in, it is life. Every time you exhale, it is death. What else is meditation on death if not a way to clear your mind, clouded by thoughts, many of which are false or unviable. You will free your mind from everything superfluous so that it can accommodate the meaning and true meaning of life and death.

Meditation for the fear of death teaches you not to resist death, but to accept it with gratitude, because by resisting death, you lose life itself. In this world, everything is closely intertwined with one another, and life cannot be separated from death, just as it is impossible to separate the path and the goal, for every path ends with a goal. In spiritual practices, everything matters. There is no main or secondary thing here, everything is important - both purity of consciousness and the position of the fingers. Learning to put your fingers into healing combinations during meditation is not difficult. Learn the basic spiritual mudras, practice, meditate, develop and create spiritually.

Meditation on death as the only absolute fact

If you are afraid of ending your earthly life, you will not be able to perform the death meditation technique. Fear and uncontrollable terror will block your path to awareness. You will not allow meditation to happen, you will not be able to enter into it. But, remember that it doesn’t matter at all whether you are afraid of death or not, death is the only unconditional fact. In life, everything is uncertain, variable, changeable, and only death is an unconditional fact. Everything else is random. You yourself are changeable and impermanent, and everything that was, is or will be in your life is unstable - it may happen, or it may not happen. And death alone is not accidental. This is a given. This is an indisputable fact.

But look at the human mind. We - each of us - constantly deny death, talk about it as if it were an accident. When someone dies, we say that their death was unexpected, untimely, or unfair. We say this is an accident. But death is not an accident. Death is absolutely certain. You realize this in meditations on death if you let it happen. You must die. Moreover, you are already dead. This happened to you the very moment you were born, because with birth death became inevitable.

Yes, one element of inevitability has already happened. Birth. And now the second, final part of the inevitability must inevitably occur. Having been born into this world, a person enters the kingdom of death, and now nothing will change this, because nothing can be changed. Death will not take place as an episode; it will not become the final chord at the end of life. It is already happening, since death is a long and irreversible process. Meditating on death will help you accept this fact.

I wanted to try to put together all the death meditations I found.

Firstly, Osho and his "Orange Book"

Meditation: Life and Death

At night, before you fall asleep, do this fifteen-minute meditation. This is death meditation. Lie down and relax. Feel as if you are dying and that you cannot move your body because you are dead. Create the feeling that you are disappearing from your body. Do this for ten to fifteen minutes and in a week you will feel it. While meditating in this way, fall asleep. Don't ruin it. Let meditation turn into sleep. And if sleep overcomes you, go to sleep. In the morning, the moment you feel awake - without opening your eyes - engage in life meditation. Feel that you are becoming more and more alive, that life is returning, and that the whole body is full of vitality and energy. And start moving, rocking in bed with your eyes closed. Feel the life flowing into you.
Feel that there is a huge flowing energy in the body - just the opposite of death meditation. So, do death meditation at night before going to bed, and life meditation before getting up. ... During life meditation you can breathe deeply. Feel energized... with the breath comes life. Feel fulfilled and very happy, New. Then, after fifteen minutes, get up.

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Meditation. Entering Death

Death Meditation
Life is a pilgrimage to death. From the very beginning, death begins to approach you. From the moment of birth, death approaches you; you are moving towards death.

And the greatest misfortune that befalls the human mind is that it is an opponent of death. If you resist death, you lose the greatest mystery. If you resist death, you lose life itself, for they are closely intertwined with each other; they are inseparable. Life is growth, death is its flowering. The journey and the destination are not separate - the journey ends with the destination.

Entering Death

Shiva said: Focus on the fire rising in your form from the feet upward until the body burns to ashes, but not you.

Buddha was very fond of this meditation technique; he initiated his students into it.
Whenever the Buddha initiated someone, he first advised the initiate to go to the cremation ground and watch how dead bodies are burned. For three months he didn't have to do anything, just sit there and watch.

If you are very afraid of death, you will not be able to perform this technique because fear will block your path. You won't be able to enter it. Or imagine everything only on the very surface, your deepest essence will not be involved, and nothing will happen to you.
Remember: whether you are afraid of death or not, death is the only unconditional fact. There is nothing absolute in life, except death. Everything is uncertain; only death is an absolute fact. Everything else is accidental - it may happen or it may not happen - one death is not accidental. But look at the human mind. We always talk about death as if it were an accident. Whenever someone dies, we say that his death was premature, we say that it was like an accident. But death is not an accident - only death. Everything else is random. Death is absolutely certain. You must die.

Remember: death will not happen at the end of life, it is already happening. Death is a process. Just like life is a process, death is also a process. We create duality, but life and death are like your two feet, your two legs. Life and death form a single process. You die every second.
Let me explain it this way: whenever you inhale, it is life, and whenever you exhale, it is death.

The first thing a newborn does is inhale. The child cannot breathe out. First he inhales. He cannot exhale because there is no air in his lungs yet; he must inhale. The first action is inhalation. And the last action of a dying old man will be to exhale. When you die, you cannot breathe - do you know this? When you die, you cannot breathe. The last action cannot be inhalation; the last action is to exhale. The first action is inhalation, the last is exhalation. Inhalation is birth, exhalation is death. Every second you do one thing or another - inhale and exhale. Inhalation is life, exhalation is death.

Step one:
Try one experiment. Throughout the day, as soon as you remember this, exhale deeply and do not inhale. Let the body inhale, just exhale. And you will feel deep peace, because death is peace, death is silence. If you pay more attention to the exhalation, you will feel unselfish. As you inhale, you will feel more selfish; as you exhale, you will feel less selfish. Pay more attention to your exhalation. Throughout the day, as soon as you remember this, exhale deeply and do not inhale. Let your body inhale, but don’t do it yourself.

The emphasis on exhalation will help you in performing the experiment, for you will be ready to die. A willingness to die is necessary, otherwise this technique will not be of much use. And you will be ready for death only if you have already tasted it in some way. Exhale deeply and you will feel its taste. He is beautiful.
Death is delightful, because there is nothing like death - so silent, relaxing, quiet, calm. But we are afraid of death. And why? Where does our fear of death come from? We are afraid of death not because of death itself - because it is unknown to us. How can you be afraid of something you haven't encountered yet? How can you be afraid of what you don't know? To be afraid of something, you must at least know it. So it's not actually death that you're afraid of; your fear is something else. You have never actually lived - that is what causes the fear of death.

Fear arises because you have not lived yet, so you are afraid: “I have not lived yet, and if death comes, then what? Having not experienced satisfaction from life, having not lived at all, I will already die.” You have experienced life; Now we would like to know death. But we are so afraid of life that we do not know it, do not enter into it deeply.
If you want to enter into this meditation technique, you must become aware of your deepest fear. This fear must be dropped, you must free yourself from it, only then can you enter into this technique. Here's what will help you: pay more attention to the exhalation. Throughout the day you will feel relaxed and inner silence will arise.

Step two:
You will deepen this feeling if you do another experiment. Exhale deeply for fifteen minutes every day. Sit on a chair or on the ground and exhale deeply. As you exhale, close your eyes. When the air comes out, go inside. Now allow the body to inhale; and when the air comes in, open your eyes and go outside. Then do the opposite: when the air goes out, move in; when the air comes in, come out.

When you exhale, some space is freed up inside you, because breathing is life. When you exhale deeply you become empty, life comes out. In a sense you are dead, for a moment you are dead. In this silence of death, come inside. The air comes out: close your eyes and move inward. There is space there and you can easily enter it.
Before you try the technique below, do this experiment for fifteen minutes so that you are ready—and not only ready, but inviting, receptive. The fear of death disappears, now death looks like relaxation, like deep rest.

Step three:
Lay down on the ground. Imagine yourself dead; imagine that your body is a corpse. Lie down on the ground and focus your attention on your toes. With your eyes closed, move inward. Focus your attention on your toes and feel the fire rising up from there, burning everything in its path. As the fire rises higher, your body gradually disappears. Start at your toes and work your way up.

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Remembering Death
In Buddhism, all techniques are not for idleness, but for a specific purpose. What is the purpose and purpose of remembering death (maranussati in Pali)? Its goal is to develop awareness of the inevitability of one’s own death in particular and the nature of the impermanence of everything in general. If a yogi begins to realize the impermanence of both his body and the whole world, his thirst and lust weaken. With the weakening of thirst, anxiety, fear, and in general any kind of dissatisfaction decreases, since any fear or anxiety is the other side of lust. As soon as the desire to have something appears, at that moment, as a rule, dissatisfaction appears because it does not exist. With the advent of joy from receiving the desired object, the fear of losing it also arises.
When a person is ready to die, he is born FEARLESS. He will not be caught off guard by his own death. He will not be saddened by the death of a loved one, because he is aware of impermanence.
Since the fear of death is the fundamental fear on which all other types of fear are built, this technique is precisely aimed at eliminating the fear of death through the elimination of attachment to one's body. This method is one of the four protective practices. What does it protect against? From all negative emotions associated with death. The mind becomes stable and fearless.
There were cases when his ill-wishers wished death to a certain person in letters or in words (cursed), and he died because his mind was taken over by the fear that this wish or curse could actually happen. This is how it all happened, because the unfortunate man’s mind was already programmed for his own death.
A yogi who has achieved success in this practice is protected from such curses because his mind is not shaken by the idea of his own death, illness, or any trouble. This is why this practice is called protective. Even if you do not intend to devote the entire meditation session to this practice, it is useful to do it for a few minutes before moving on to the main practice.
We should also not think that if we are aware of our death, we will thereby bring it closer. Nothing like this. Proper preparation for death, on the contrary, prolongs life, since many physical disorders are directly related to disorders of the untrained mind. We cannot avert our death, but we can bring a dose of calm and awareness if it threatens us.
In other religious systems, the adept usually takes on faith the idea that a part of him (spirit, soul) does not die after death, but is sent to different worlds pleasant to inhabit. This has been shown to reduce the fear of death. Buddhism, instead of believing in an afterlife for part of our “self,” suggests looking at death without resorting to any beliefs about life in heaven after death, but working only with what we see in our lives - the process of dying.
There are many methods of this practice - with or without detailed visualization of the corpse. Read about Bhikkhu Nyanananda's method.
To perform this practice, you need to take a meditation pose and visualize a corpse. The more disgusting the corpse, the greater the effect this meditation will have on the mind. You must realize that as disgusting as this corpse is, so will your body be when it dies. You will be exactly the same. When the visualization has become stable, you should mentally repeat the following settings of your choice, or one by one, in Pali language, or as is more convenient:
MARANAM ME DHUVAM
My death is predictable
JIVITAM ME ADHUVAM
My life is unpredictable
MARANAM ME BHAVISATI
I will surely die
MARANAM PARIYOSANAM ME JEEVITAM
My life will end in death
Or simply -
MARANAM - MARANAM
Death is death
The idea of these installations is that the only thing we can be 100% sure of is our death. As for our life, we cannot predict how events will develop in it when it is interrupted. But the fact that it will be interrupted is a fact. Everything else is guesswork that is worthless.
In ancient times, yogis performed this psychotechnique in cemeteries, where one could see firsthand corpses of varying degrees of decomposition, or the remains of cremated bodies. In some meditation centers and monasteries, you can see a skeleton, or parts of a skeleton, which are used as objects of this meditation. Yet in this practice, the main thing is not detailed visualization of corpses, but a deep awareness of the impermanence of this body, the unpredictability of life.

Paulo Coello "Diary of a Magician"
“Exercise “Buried Alive”

Lie down on the ground, relax. The arms are crossed on the chest, like a dead man's.
Imagine your funeral in every detail as if it were to happen the next day. The only difference is that they put you in the grave alive.
As the whole procedure unfolds: the funeral service, removal, delivery of the coffin to the cemetery, lowering the coffin into the grave, worms - you tense all your muscles more and more in a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to move.
You can't do this. And so, unable to bear it any longer, with the movement of your whole body you throw the boards of the coffin to the sides, take a deep breath - and are freed. This movement will have a greater effect if it is accompanied by a scream escaping from the very depths of the inside.”

“Contemplation of a Skeleton” by O. Dixon

Contemplation of the skeleton is a special meditative technique based on the ecstatic experiences of Chukchi and Eskimo shamans during self-initiation.
Self-initiation is the ecstatic induction of death experiences without initiatory illness and without a guide. To successfully perform this technique, it is necessary to have privacy in a deserted closed place where the sun's rays, people's voices, household noises, etc. do not penetrate.

Ancient shamans practiced Skeleton Contemplation in caves or even in special boxes underground. It is better if the chosen place is also a small room with a low ceiling, no windows, located in close proximity to the ground. For example, it could be a basement or dugout. Meditation is performed in a lying position and with eyes closed.

Relax completely and suppress your thoughts. Just lie there for a while and feel nothing. Silence should be absolute, and the body position should be as comfortable as possible. See a river with a very fast current. The coastal landscape should be gray and dull, so that attention is focused only on the river. Let the current carry you into the unknown. The grotto should soon appear. The river will enter it, and you will find yourself in a dimly lit grotto. Then the river will enter the grotto and you will find yourself in a dimly lit tunnel with rough walls. Swim along the walls until a wave throws you onto the stone floor of a small cave.

Remember that you came here to die.
Look around, you will see bodies shackled by the shell of ice suits. Don't be afraid of anything. Lie down on the floor and wait. The bear will come soon. He is the keeper of this crypt. Try to see what is happening as if from the outside: your body is lying on the floor, the Bear is walking around, and you are looking at all this from somewhere above. The bear will begin to eat your body. Separating the flesh from the bones. Watch this until only the skeleton remains of the body and the Bear leaves. Realize the essence of what happened. You are dead, but still alive. Enter what is left of the body through the cross-shaped opening at the top of the head and take three deep breaths. With each breath, the bones will be overgrown with new flesh. Feel it. Feel fresh and reborn. Take six more breaths and exhales and come back. Open your eyes.
You have been born again, a feeling of renewal will be felt throughout your entire body. Thank the Bear.
In a few days you may be surprised. Some of your friends will begin to not recognize you on the street, this is normal, and much of what previously seemed important will become completely useless.

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I was introduced to this meditation by Lev Teternikov. it is included in his tantra yoga course. however, it is also described by Osho. The meaning of the technique is to “die” while lying on the floor. this does not mean a thought process, but the simple falling away of your organs, as it happens after death. First, your eyes “bleed out.” this is a very important phase. Instead of eyes, there are two billiard balls in your sockets. This is important because by “placing” the balls in your eye sockets, you stop R.E.M. after that everything goes easier. you feel the disappearance (in turn) of the skin, muscles, and internal organs. the lungs seem to lie a little to the side. they breathe, but they are not there. All that remains is a skeleton and a heart.

important! There is no need to “think” that “my kidneys have fallen off.” this process is not thought, but lived and seen and felt as if from the outside. it’s quite easy once you feel the weight of billiard balls in your eye sockets instead of eyes. then, when you enter pure consciousness, this heaviness disappears.
by time. It takes about forty minutes. good before bed. and it’s even better to move from this meditation into lucid dreams, but this requires preliminary training in meditation.

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