Daniel P Brown Step 3 Going Beyond Time Meditation — Daniel P Brown Step 3 Going Beyond Time Meditation

Step 3 - Going Beyond Time Meditation Instructions

This is step 3 of a guide to take a meditator to a taste of awakening/enlightenment based on Daniel P Brown's 3 map system.

Through these steps we'll move into deeper levels of awareness. In step 1 we moved from thought into awareness. In step 2 we shifted into awareness doing the meditation. Now in step 3 we'll recognize that that awareness is timeless. Daniel P. Brown talks about this at 41:05 of the Sacred Sundays with Dr. Daniel Brown, Ph.D. video.

1. Begin with the stability of Steps One and Two

Let the mind settle into steady attention.
Let the body and breath be vivid and clear.
Let the doer be quiet.
Rest in awareness as the vantage point.

Allow the mind to become bright, open, and relaxed.

2. Open awareness into the surrounding space

Let awareness include the space around the body.
Let it spread into the room in all directions.
Feel the openness and the quiet.

Allow awareness to rest in the entire space,
not only inside the body.

3. Look into the open field of experience

Let awareness rest in the open field without effort.
Let sounds appear in the space.
Let sensations appear in the space.
Let thoughts appear in the space.

Do not follow anything.
Let everything rise and fall without interference.

4. Notice the changeless quality of the field

Look at the field of awareness itself.
See that it does not change.
Events appear and disappear,
yet the field remains the same.

Let this recognition deepen.

5. Begin the practice of non arising

When something appears in experience,
take the perspective:

It is not truly arising
It is already here

This softens the mind’s instinct to create time.

Let everything appear as already present in the field.

6. Begin the practice of non passing away

When something fades or disappears,
take the perspective:

It is not truly going anywhere
It remains here

This loosens the habit of thinking in terms of before and after.

Let experience remain within the same open field.

7. Recognize the collapse of time

As you continue,the sense of events happening in sequence becomes thin.
The idea of past and future weakens.
The present moment expands.

Experience begins to feel like one complete and timeless moment.

Let this recognition unfold naturally.

8. Release subtle tracking of time

Notice any tendency to measure or track experience.
This includes:

waiting for the next breath
checking how long silence lasts
anticipating the next sensation
measuring progress

Recognize these tendencies as a subtle form of time making.
Let each one dissolve into the open field.

9. Shift to boundless awareness

As the sense of time collapses,
the sense of space opens.

Let awareness expand until it has no boundaries.
Let the edges dissolve.
Let the room dissolve.
Let awareness fill the entire expanse.

Feel the vastness and the stillness.

10. Rest in oceanlike awareness

Let awareness feel like an immense ocean.
Let events feel like waves rising within it.
The waves move.
The ocean does not.

Awareness remains untouched and changeless.

Rest in this experience.

11. Return gently when the mind contracts

If the mind contracts back into the body,
or into a sense of self,
or into a sense of time,
simply notice it
and reopen into the timeless field.

Each return strengthens the practice.

12. Close with openness

When you finish,
rest for a moment in the wide and quiet field.
Let the sense of timelessness settle in the mind.
Open the eyes gently and carry the openness with you.

Signs Step Three is developing well:

-Awareness feels timeless and changeless
-The sense of past and future becomes thin and faint
-The field of awareness feels wide and boundless
-Events appear within the field without creating time
-Boundaries fade and dissolve
-Experience feels like a single complete moment
-The mind rests naturally in a spacious and open state