Sequences of awareness

It is very simple.

Whatever we feel physically, 

without words or thoughts,

is Reality as-is for us.

Physical Reality is not static, 

because physical sensations 

keep coming in.

Whatever we feel mentally is also 

Reality as-is for us, 

again if there are no words or thoughts. [1]

That Reality is also 

a continuous flow,

manifesting 

from subtler levels 

to your current mental level,

to your current subtlety of awareness,

of attention. [1]

As soon as 

words and concepts and 

ideas and beliefs and 

biases and cravings, and so on 

come into play, 

your mind has taken 

something flowing,

continuously, and 

converted it,

approximated it,

distorted it,

into 

something 

static and 

limited and 

measured.

Fooling around 

with words 

is useless 

for self-realisation.

Simply practise first - 
feel 
the inside first, 
the super-conscious first, 
the super-subtle first.

Let the emotional mind 
quieten down and 
become peaceful.

Then open your eyes and 
feel the outside 
through incoming sensations 
for the rest of the day.

Just stay with feeling 
with the still mind.

Then becoming happens. [2]

Experiencing, 

transforming to 

the next subtler mental level 
happens.

Then being at that level happens.

Enjoying and 

discovering and 

expanding, 

deeper and wider,

happens.

Then you lose awareness 

of that level and 

objects of that level as 
something new, 
something different.

Then that level is negated.

Attention is able to go, 

to shift to,

to the next subtler causal level.

Again by 
feeling and 
becoming and 
being 
to go to the next level.

Again nothingness as 
novelty, newness, differences 
fade away 
with familiarity and use.

Now you can describe or 
think about the previous lower level, 
the less subtle level.

At this subtler level, 
your thinking cannot 
corrupt or 
bias or 
filter sensations 
at the earlier grosser or 

denser level. [3]

You can see or describe 
that level more clearly.

This journey is infinite 
because 
the mind can, in a sense, 
become subtler and subtler 
infinitely.

But words are still unnecessary.

Just feel and 
become and 
be and 
negate.

And go about your daily 
spiritual and 
material activities,
your inner and 
outer activities,
with a still emotional mind, 
without emotional, egoistic reactivity, 
without emotional turbulence.

And you will 
resonate, 
synchronise, and 
empathize or 
simply feel 
differently.

Please note that this is a continuous process.

Thus:

feeling,
becoming,
being,
negating or nothingness [4]
is a more appropriate description.

Is it such a simple, linear sequence?

Grossest/densest, subtler, subtler, subtler, ..., subtlest?

No. There's much more nuance in the spiritual journey.

But it's a good, practical, 

useful, and comforting approximation. 

And way more helpful than 

the sharply-contrasting 

dualistic and judgemental 

transcendental/cosmic perspective vs. 

individualistic perspective 

of advaita!

NOTES

[1] Ignoring inner inputs from memory, which is again stored, from the past, limited and limiting representations or residues, triggers of the past experiences.

[2] Becoming also happens in meditation as the attention moves to a subtler level. That is, one can become consciously aware of that level.

[3] A bit like a highly sensitive ammeter minimally affects or reduces the current flowing through, while still showing its measurement. But the measuring mind has shifted, as if ffrom physical energy to a different energy.

[4] Daaji's sequence - thinking to feeling to becoming to being to nothingness. He doesn't emphasise the recursive or repetitive nature of the states, and nothingness is also presented as the final state cosmologically.