INSTRUCTIONS🔗

In this technique, you silently intone a word ending with the syllable Ah. It could be any word. Do it silently, and focus on the ending, on the Ah. With the Ah, you become completely empty. Your breath moves out entirely. For just a moment, you are not breathing. You experience a moment of death!

Since the moment of birth, we have been inhaling and exhaling – but we have never been aware of this moment, this gap. When you become aware of it, you become a witness to your own death. You realize that you can go beyond your breath.

We hear about death all the time, we see death – but we never imagine that death can happen to us. Yet every time you breathe out, your system is silently preparing for death! Your system is accepting the state of death.

When you empty yourself of breath, you empty yourself of life – with all its tensions, misery, ideas, desires. It is a moment of supreme relaxation. Sometimes we do it unknowingly. When we are tense or upset, when we want to relax, we heave a great sigh. After such a sigh, there is a moment when you don't inhale, you just stay empty. In that moment there is a feeling of great peace.

For just that moment, when you are not involved with life, with doing and having, the being behind it all is revealed. You get a glimpse. Once you have seen it, you cannot forget it.

Such a simple practice, but with such lasting effects! When you continue with this meditation, you will become more relaxed, more peaceful. Anxiety can't touch you easily. Whatever the external circumstances, you will find yourself able to cope more easily. Once you have glimpsed a moment of death, with deep awareness, how can the issues of life overpower you?