On page Eighty one, is how to develop the Base of Boundless Consciousness. This is not well described here, it is only to have no desire for the previous Base of Boundless Space, to concentrate on the consciousness. Gunarata is of help:
Since the space taken as the object by the first formless jhana was
boundless, the consciousness of that space also involves an aspect of
boundlessness, and it is to this boundless consciousness that the
aspirant for the next attainment adverts. He is not to attend to it
merely as boundless, but as "boundless consciousness" or simply as
"consciousness." He continues to cultivate this sign again and again
until the consciousness belonging to the base of boundless consciousness
arises in absorption taking as its object the boundless consciousness
pertaining to the first immaterial state (Vism. 331-32; PP.360-61).
Also here is how to develop the third immaterial jhana, the Base of Nothingness. Ready? Back to Gunaratna:
the meditator is to focus upon the present absence or non-existence of
the consciousness belonging to the base of boundless space, adverting to
it over and over thus: "There is not, there is not" or "void, void".
When his efforts fructify there arises in absorption a consciousness
belonging to the base of nothingness, with the non-existence of the
consciousness of boundless space as its object. Whereas the second
immaterial state relates to the consciousness of boundless space
positively, by focusing upon the content of that consciousness and
appropriating its boundlessness, the third immaterial state relates to
it negatively, by excluding that consciousness from awareness and making
the absence or present non-existence of that consciousness its object.
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