Let one feel awareness in another's body just as in one's own; letting go of concern for one's own body, one becomes all-pervading within days.
School paraphrase drawing on Jaideva Singh (1979), Christopher Wallis and Bettina Bäumer (as printed in Wallis's concordance); not a quotation.
Commentary
Singh: a body is not necessary for consciousness; in dream one is conscious apart from the gross body, in deep sleep apart from the subtle body, and in the fourth state apart from the causal body. Knowing this, one contemplates one's consciousness as not confined to one's own body. Wallis: 'cultivate the felt-sense that the consciousness in another's body is the same as one's own'.
How to sit with it
Feel the awareness alive in your own body. Then bring to mind someone nearby, or a person you know, and feel the same awareness alive in their body, just as vividly. Let go of concern for your own body for a while.
Where attention rests
Awareness felt in another person's body as vividly as in one's own
Releasing preoccupation with one's own body
Not a body shape. The map is awareness felt in one's own body and then, just as vividly, in another's.
Breath
Natural breath. Count about four in and four out only if it helps you settle, then let the count go. No forced hold.
The counts are an optional school pacing aid, not part of the verse. Hold is always 0: this school never adds a deliberate breath-hold.
Any steady, comfortable position (school addition)
Any steady, comfortable position: sitting on a chair, sitting on the floor with support under the hips, or lying on the back. Standing or walking slowly is also acceptable when that is easier. Choose the position in which the body needs the least effort.
School addition. Verse 107 does not specify a body position. The seat is a convenience so the dharana can be practised; it is not part of the technique and makes no claim of tradition.
Safety
Pain is information. Pause, regress, or exit. Never push through sharp pain.
General practice caution only; not medical advice. Stay respectful: this is an inner contemplation, never a reason to cross anyone's physical or emotional boundaries. The verse's 'within days' is its own claim, not a promise. If anything feels distressing (dizziness, agitation, strong emotion), stop, open the eyes and rest attention on the feet and the floor.
This door needs no particular posture: sit on a chair, sit on the floor with support, or lie down. Eyes may stay open.
Honesty
Door 083 follows Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra dharana 83 (verse 107) in Jaideva Singh's numbering. The door-to-dharana index is a School of 112 Doorways teaching device. Singh's sequence is one edition's count, not an ancient one-to-one canon. The seat, counts, reaction and beat scripts are school additions.
Door index = Jaideva Singh dharana number: Door 083 is dharana 83, verse 107. Other editions number differently (see dharana.numbering_variants).
The seat, breath counts, reaction metaphor, attention-map drawing and beat scripts are school devices, not part of the verse.
The English is a school paraphrase, not a quotation from any translator.
No medical claims. Reaction names are metaphors, not biochemistry.
New door researched on 2026-10-06 on branch research/vbt-houses-2-7; awaiting guardian review.
Name the door. This is Door 083: the same awareness in another's body. Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra dharana 83, verse 107.
Geometry. No shape to make. Sit or lie down. The map is awareness in your body, then in another's.
Orientation. Let the floor or the chair carry you. Eyes closed or soft.
Breath. Natural breath. Count about four in and four out only if it helps. No forced hold.
Attention. Feel the awareness alive in your body. Then bring to mind another person and feel it alive in them, just as vividly.
Reaction cue. School image: the same light in another lamp. A metaphor, not medicine.
Adiyogi thread. Verse 107: feel awareness in another's body as in your own; letting go of concern for your own body, one becomes all-pervading within days.
Exit / integrate. Drop the exercise. Notice the room: its sounds, its light. Carry the quiet into what comes next.
School of 112 Doorways: seat, breath counts, reaction metaphor, attention map drawing and beat scripts School devices, following the House 1 conventions (doors/HOUSE-1-REGISTRY.md, guardians/CHECKLIST.md). research/PROMPT_TEMPLATE.md is not present in the repository at 32e76c4.
Pain is information, never a badge. Never force the breath. Practice is not medical treatment. The door-to-dhāraṇā index is a School of 112 Doorways teaching device (school_device), not an ancient one-to-one canon.