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The Light becomes brighter and brighter, and here you are: you behold a magnificent temple… You hear music, you inhale the scent of aromatic perfumes… The light streams in pulsating waves, in perfect harmony with the vibration: OM-m-m-m… You draw nearer to the temple… The door stands open… In the semi-darkness, you see someone: he is seated in the lotus pose, eyes open. Sit down before him, gaze upon him, drink it in with all your being, his Presence… - Sit in such a way that your back is erect, straight, but absolutely relaxed, your head and your neck aligned in a single straight line; your chin should be slightly lowered towards your chest.
- Your eyes are only partly closed, their lids halfway down; your breath is free and natural.
- You detect how, out of the infinite space of the Universe, very gently, from above, a superfine, incomprehensible and majestic force descends upon the crown of your head.
- Letting go of yourself completely, you surrender to this descending force, opening up to it and attuning the area of the very top of your head to its perception. You let go of any efforts of your will, relinquishing any vestige of control over the currents of energy flowing about you, and you deliver yourself utterly into the power of the Divine Essence, superior to you. Thus, you begin to comprehend the sense of the principle of non-action.
- The force penetrates through the top of your head into your spine, and thence flows down throughout your body all the way to the base of your coccyx, evoking sensations of warmth, vibrations and a subtly blissful state. By unifying the perception of energy with your contemplative presence, you maintain yourself in a state of bliss merged with emptiness, surrendering more and more to the descending force.
- Beginning with the first energy center, or chakra, the Muladhara, you systematically combine and blend the energy of the descending force with each of the elements associated with each of the energy centers. In this manner, you open and activate the spaces of the seven energy centers, as well as of the eighth, above your head.
- You then direct your attention from the realms of the energy centers to your whole being and its surrounding realm. You feel this realm as if it were a kind of orb, a golden shell or capsule, woven from the finest of substances, highly supple and resilient.
- Feel your pose to have changed: it has become more stable; you find it easy to sit: that means the energy is flowing unimpeded. Your body becomes saturated with strength; it feels itself to be full of vitality and force, to be strong, becoming a body of burnished red gold.
You are all Gods, Buddhas, Boddhisattvas. You all glow with the radiance of all the colors of the rainbow. You are all extraordinarily beautiful, like all the mandalas put together, like all divine manifestations. I press my hands together before each one of you, in the namaste greeting of reverence. Discover it for yourself, then; recognize it about yourself, that you are all gods. Whatever you might think about yourself, whatever you might say to anyone else, you are Divinity Itself.
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How to Enter into a State of Meditation |
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- You breathe freely, evenly, regularly and deeply, letting go of tension, relaxing your body and feeling pleasure and joy – and why should anyone do anything joylessly?
- You gaze into a Reflection – a dynamic mandala – with a free, unconstrained, unfocused gaze… You do not strive to scrutinize, nor do you concentrate on anything in particular, but merely allow your gaze to be relaxed… Of their own accord, your eyes will find the appropriate direction to travel, and your gaze will independently and spontaneously linger on the directional orientations that arise out of the pulsation, taking your gaze from one level of representation to the next.
- When you look in this manner upon the image, sitting immobile, you are, essentially, engaged in Reflection. True reflection does not require effort or depend on it; it occurs in the moments when your effort is absent, because effort warps reflection. You merely allow reflection too unfold… This does not mean, however, that you can simply doze off and “do nothing” in the usual sense of that word. Reflection is a great non-activity: you abide in the state of a living, clear perception of all that transpires, watchfully and fully conscious of everything that is happening to you at the given moment n time, at the given point in space. You do not analyze, assess or critique; you make no judgement. You simply reflect, your hear a melody play, and your mind is wide open…
- When you engage in reflection, you do it not only with your head or your eyes. The process of reflection must integrate your personal energy. To that end, feel the heat or pulsation at the base of your spine… This heat, this pulsing lead to a feeling of bliss suffusing your entire body; it is a feeling comparable to sexual bliss, but is not tinged with desire… You slowly merge with this feeling, in such a way as if you were reflecting not through use of your head, but with this lower part of your body, combining the feelings and sensations of your body with the act of reflection. Reflection can be caused to blend with any part of your body, with any energy center. For those who are just starting out, it is more beneficial to begin by integrating the lower part of the body, where the two lowest energy centers are situated (Muladhara and Svadhisthana); then, progressing further, to incorporate the midsection of the body, and only then to begin to practice reflection with the upper parts of the body as well.
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When You Combine Energies… |
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- You feel your body become saturated with power; your pose becomes more stable; it is easier for you to sit; the energy flows unimpeded – your fragile carnal body feels itself to be strong and mighty, becoming a body of burnished red gold.
- That which bothers or irritates others does not darken your mood in any way. On the contrary, you acquire the extraordinary sense that this specific place in space, where you are sitting in meditation, this city, this country, this earth – is a magnificent world of Light, beauty and clarity.
- Your soul, as if freshly bathed, having come to know a state of tranquillity, experiences great joy. And this attests to the fact that the principle of Light is harmoniously present throughout your body.
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In order for your state to deepen, practice reflecting upon your own self within the mandala called Buddha beneath the Tree, which opens up its boundaries more and more widely, unfolding itself into infinite space. Give birth to increasingly exalted states of majesty and Divine pride. You experience yourself, without visualizing your body, but rather, attuning yourself to your own being, to the divine perception of your own self, and then you feel this perception of your own self expanding, as if you were not a small body; as if you were expanding to the limits of the room, and then the city, then all the Universe. Imagine yourself as vast as your imagination can manage, so that it begins to seem to you that your body gives rise to brilliant stars, planets and galaxies. Do not exert yourself, do not invent, do not visualize any kind of fantastical mental pictures – simply feel. |
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It is all much simpler. Complexity is merely simplicity explained in greater detail. Even when certain complex explanations are given, it is sufficient to grasp the essence of the practice: namely, that reflection, as a result of which you attain a heightened state, permeates you, permeates your attitude to everything that surrounds you, and you remain in this state for increasingly longer periods of time. When your practice session concludes, do not forget these sensations you have experienced: continue to examine the world as if you are still in the center of the Buddha beneath the Tree mandala, view the entire world as that mandala, and yourself as the divinity within it. When you attend to this practice, your purest vision can be born therefrom. |
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