The Path of Meditation Chapter No.8, Mysticism, reading, forums, Numerology, Sun Signs, Divination

Posts: 3383 · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:20 pm

[color=Now we will sit a little apart from each other -- the hall is big enough so that everyone can spread out -- and we will make our resolutions before we leave here.

... Not so jerkily, very slowly, slowlyfilling the lungs completely.When you fill your lungs, repeat to yourself, "I will experience meditation." Repeat this sentence. Then, when thelungs are filled to the maximum, hold your breath for a while, repeating the sentence. You may get nervous, you will feel like exhaling, but continue to hold your breath and repeat the sentence. Then slowly start exhaling, again repeating the sentence. Keep exhaling until you feel you are empty, and then go on exhaling and repeating the sentence. When you feel absolutely empty, hold this emptiness. Don't inhale yet, and go on repeating the sentence as long as you can. And then, slowly begin to inhale. An inhalation plus an exhalation is one round. Everyone should follow this procedure slowly, step by step.

After doing it five times straighten your back, breathe slowly, sit quietly and relax for five minutes. We will do this exercise for ten minutes and then everyone will leave this place silently. Remember, you are not to talk, and this is from now on. In that sense the meditation camp begins rightnow. When you go to bed repeat this exercise from five to seven times, as long as you feel comfortable, then switch off the light and fall asleep. Fall asleep thinking, "I will be in silence, this is my aim." And when sleep envelops you this thought will be with you.

When you have finished doing the exercise five times, rest quietly for a while and breathe softly. Now keep your back straight. Let your body be loose. Your back is straight and your body relaxed. Close your eyes. Quietly take a deep breath and do as I have just said five times. "I will experience silence. I will experience meditation. I am determined that I will experience meditation." Let your whole being make this oath that you will enter into meditation. Let your whole being resonate with it. This should reach to the deepest layer of your consciosness.

After doing this five times, very softly, very relaxedly, sit up, straighten your back and slow down your breathing. Exhale slowly and keep on watching your breathing. Rest for five minutes. During this rest period the resolution that you have made will sink deeper inside you. Make the resolution five times, then, sitting quietly, watch your breath for five minutes and take slow breaths.

Last night I spoke about how to create a foundation for meditation within yourelf. My approach to meditation is not based on any scriptures, any holy books or any specific school of thought. I am only talking about the paths which I have walked on and which I have known by going within myself. This is why what I am saying is not just a theory. And when I invite you to try it, I have no doubt that you will also be successful in finding what you are longing for. Rest assured that I will only talk about that which I have experienced.

I have had to go through a period of intense anguish and suffering. I had to go through a period of trial and error, and during that period I struggled to go inside myself. I made a constant effort to try all the roads, all the paths in this direction.

Those days were very painful, full of anguish and suffering. But there was constant effort, and because of this effort - just as when a great waterfall is falling from a great height and the constant flow wears away even the rocks -- so just like a waterfall, with continuous effort, somewhere I found an opening. And I will only talk about the methods through which I found this opening.

So I can say to you with absolute confidence and assurance that if you try this method the result is absolutely guaranteed. At the time, there was pain and sorrow, but now there is no pain or sorrow within me.

Yesterday somebody asked me, "People ask you about so many of their problems. Aren't you troubled by them?"

I said to him, "If the problems belongs to someone else then there is no trouble in it. The trouble starts if you take the problem as your own. "

In this sense I don't have any problems. But I experience a different type of sadness, and that is that I see many people around me who appear to be in so much pain, who have so many problems, and I feel that their pain and trouble can so easily be removed because there are such simple solutions to them. I feel that if they were to knock on the door, the door would open so easily. And yet they are standing right in front of it, crying. That's when I experience a very different kind of anguish and suffering.
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