Meditation Techniques

<p>Feel yourself as pervading all directions, far, near. Tantra and yoga both think that your narrowness is the problem. Because you have made yourself so narrow, so tightly narrow, you feel always in bondage. The bondage is not coming from anywhere else: the bondage is coming from your narrow mind. And it goes on being [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In any easy position gradually pervade an area between the armpits into great peace. This is a very simple method but it works miraculously &#8212; try it. And anyone can try it, there is no danger. The first thing is to be in an easy relaxed position &#8212; relaxed in a position that is easy [&hellip;]</p>

<p>98. In any position gradually pervade an area between the armpits into great peace.  99. Feel yourself as pervading all directions, far, near.  Life on the outside is a cyclone &#8212; a constant conflict, turmoil, struggle. But it is only so on the surface &#8212; just as on the surface of the ocean are waves, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Consider the plenum to be your own body of bliss. This second technique is concerned with the first. Consider space to be your own body of bliss. Meditating on a hilltop with endless space before you, you can do it. Consider it to be filled with your own body of bliss. There are seven bodies. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Abide in some place endlessly spacious, clear of trees, hills, habitations. thence comes the end of mind pressures. Before we enter this technique three other points about loneliness must be understood. One: to be alone is basic, foundational &#8212; that is how your being is. In the mother;s womb you are alone, totally alone, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>96. Abide in some place endlessly spacious, clear of trees, hills, habitations. thence comes the end of mind pressures.  97. Consider the plenum to be your own body of bliss. Man is born alone and dies alone, but between these two points he lives in society, he lives with others. Aloneness is his basic reality; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Feel the fine qualities of creativity permeating your breasts and assuming delicate configurations. A few important points before I enter this&#8230;. Shiva is talking to Parvati, to Devi, his consort, so this technique is specifically for women. There are a few points to be understood. One: the male body and the female body are similar, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Feel your substance, bones, flesh, blood, saturated with the cosmic essence. Try with simple experiments. For seven days try one simple experiment: feel your blood, your bones, your flesh, your body, filled with sadness &#8212; every cell of the body sad; dark night around you; very heavy, depressed; not a single ray of light; no [&hellip;]</p>

<p>94.  Feel your substance, bones, flesh, blood, saturated with the cosmic essence.  95. Feel the fine qualities of creativity permeating your breasts&#8217; and assuming delicate configurations.  Philosophers all over the world have been arguing for centuries about what basic stuff the universe is made of, what the substance is. There have been propositions, systems, that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Consider any area of your present form as limitlessly spacious. This is the same, through a different door. The basic essential is the same, that is, to destroy limits. Mind creates limits. If you don&#8217;t think, you move into the unlimited. Or, from a different door, you can try with the unlimited and you will [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Put mindstuff in such inexpressible fineness above, below and in your heart. Three things. First, if knowledge is important then the head is the center; if childlike innocence is important then the heart is the center. The child lives in the heart; we live in the head. The child feels; we think. Even when we [&hellip;]</p>

<p>92. Put mindstuff  in such inexpressible fineness  above, below and in your heart. 93. Consider any area of your present form as limitlessly spacious. Life is not a problem but a mystery. For science life is a problem, but for religion it is a mystery. A problem can be solved, a mystery cannot be solved [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Kind devi, enter etheric presence pervading far above and below your form. KIND DEVI, ENTER ETHERIC PRESENCE PERVADING FAR ABOVE AND BELOW YOUR FORM. The second can be done only if you have done the first. It can be done separately also, but then it will be very difficult. But if you do the first, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Touching eyeballs as a feather, lightness between them opens into heart and there permeates the cosmos. This technique is very easy and really wonderful. You can do it, anyone can do it. There is no question of type: anyone can do this technique, and for everyone this will be helpful. Even if you cannot move [&hellip;]</p>

<p>90. Touching eyeballs as a feather,  lightness between them opens into heart  and there permeates the cosmos. 91.  Kind devi,  enter etheric presence pervading far above and below your form. Once it happened in a church that after a very long dry sermon, the minister announced that there would be a meeting, a brief meeting [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Beloved,  at this moment  let mind, knowing, breath, form,  be included.  This technique is a little difficult, but if you can do it, then very wonderful, beautiful. Sitting, don&#8217;t divide. Sitting in meditation, be inclusive of all &#8212; your body, your mind, your breath, your thinking, your knowing, everything. Be inclusive of all. Don&#8217;t divide, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>88 Now the first technique: Each thing is perceived through knowing. the self shines in space through knowing. perceive one being as knower and known. Whenever you know something, it is known through knowing. The object comes to your mind through the faculty of knowledge. You look at a flower. You know this is a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>88. Each thing is perceived through knowing.  the self shines in space through knowing.  perceive one being as knower and known.      89. Beloved,  at this moment  let, mind, knowing, breath, form,  be included.  I have heard one anecdote. In a conservative party rally, Lord Mancroft was invited to speak. He came right on [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I am existing. this is mine. this is this. o beloved, even in such know illimitably. I AM EXISTING. You never enter deeply into this feeling. I AM EXISTING. You are existing, but you never dig deep into this phenomenon. Shiva says: I AM EXISTING. THIS IS MINE. THIS IS THIS. OH BELOVED, EVEN IN [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Suppose you contemplate something beyond perception, beyond grasping, beyond not being &#8212; you. SUPPOSE YOU CONTEMPLATE SOMETHING BEYOND PERCEPTION &#8212; that which cannot be seen, which cannot be perceived. But can you imagine something which cannot be seen? Imagination is always of that which can be seen. How can you imagine something, how can you [&hellip;]</p>