Meditation Techniques

<p>86. Suppose you contemplate something beyond perception, beyond grasping, beyond not being. &#8212; you. 87. I am existing. this is mine. this is this. oh beloved, even in such know illimitably. Man is Janus-Faced &#8212; animal and divine both. Animal belongs to his past, divine belongs to his future, and this creates the difficulty. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Thinking no thing will limited-self unlimit. That&#8217;s what I was saying. If there is no object to your attention, you are nowhere; or, you are everywhere, you are free. You have become freedom. This second sutra says: THINKING NO THING &#8212; OR, THINKING NOTHING &#8212; WILL LIMITED-SELF UNLIMIT. If you are not thinking, you are [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Toss attachment for body aside, realizing i am everywhere. one who is everywhere is joyous. TOSS ATTACHMENT FOR BODY ASIDE, REALIZING I AM EVERYWHERE. ONE WHO IS EVERYWHERE IS JOYOUS. Many points have to be understood. First: TOSS ATTACHMENT FOR BODY ASIDE. There is a deep attachment to the body &#8212; bound to be, it [&hellip;]</p>

<p>84. Toss attachment for body aside, realizing i am everywhere. one who is everywhere is joyous.  85. Thinking no thing  will limited-self unlimit.  I have heard a story about an old doctor. One day his assistant phoned him because he was in very great difficulty &#8212; his patient was choking himself to death. A billiard [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Before desire and before knowing, how can i say i am? consider. dissolve in the beauty. BEFORE DESIRE AND BEFORE KNOWING, HOW CAN I SAY I AM? Adesire arises: with the desire, the feeling that I AM arises. A thought arises: with the thought, the feeling that I AM arises. Look for it in your [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Feel: My thought, i-ness, internal organs &#8212; me. A very simple and a very beautiful technique. Feel: MY THOUGHT, I-NESS, INTERNAL ORGANS &#8212; ME. The first thing is not to think but to feel. These are two different dimensions. And we have become so intellect-oriented that even when we say that we are feeling, really [&hellip;]</p>

<p>82.  Feel: my thought, i-ness, internal organs &#8212; me.  83. Before desire and before knowing, how can i say i am? consider. dissolve in the beauty.  Once a visitor asked many people in a small town about the mayor: `What type of man is your mayor?&#8217; Said the priest, `He is no good.&#8217; Said the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As, subjectively, letter flow into words and words into sentences, and as, objectively, circles flow into worlds and worlds into principles, find at last these converging in our being. That too is an imaginative technique. The ego is always afraid &#8212; afraid of being vulnerable, open; afraid something may enter and destroy it. So the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meditate on the make-believe world as burning to ashes, and become being above human. If you can do the first, the second will be very easy. If you can come to imagine that your body is burning, it is not difficult to imagine that the whole world is burning &#8212; because your body is the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Focus on fire rising through your form from the toes up until the body burns to ashes but not you FOCUS ON FIRE RISING THROUGH YOUR FORM, FROM THE TOES UP, UNTIL THE BODY BURNS TO ASHES BUT NOT YOU. A very simple technique and very wonderful, very easy to do, but some basic requirements [&hellip;]</p>

<p>79. Focus on fire rising through your form from the toes up until the body burns to ashes but not you.  80.  Meditate on the make-believe world as burning to  ashes  and become being above humanas,  81.  As subjectively, letters flow into words and words into sentences, and as, objectively, circles flow into worlds and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Wherever your attention alights, at this very point, experience. WHEREVER YOUR ATTENTION ALIGHTS, AT THIS VERY POINT, EXPERIENCE. What? What experience? In this technique, firstly you have to develop attention. You have to develop a sort of attentive attitude, only then will this technique become possible, so then wherever your attention alights you can experience [&hellip;]</p>

<p>when a moonless rainy night is not present close eyes and find blackness before you. opening eyes, see blackness. so faults disappear forever. I said that if you close your eyes the blackness will be false, so what to do if there is no moonless night, no dark night? If there is a moon and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In rain during a black night, Enter that blackness as the form of forms. There has been one very old esoteric school about which you may not have heard. The school was known as the school of Essenes. Jesus was taught in that school; he belonged to the Essenes group. That Essenes group is the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In rain during a black night, Enter that blackness as the form of forms. There has been one very old esoteric school about which you may not have heard. The school was known as the school of Essenes. Jesus was taught in that school; he belonged to the Essenes group. That Essenes group is the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>76. In rain during a black night enter that blackness as the form of forms. 77. When a moonless rainy night is not present,  close eyes and find blackness before you. opening eyes, see blackness. so faults disappear forever. 78. Wherever your attention alights,  at this very point, experience. Once a doctor, a very well [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Waking, sleeping, dreaming, know you as light. WAKING, SLEEPING, DREAMING, KNOW YOU AS LIGHT. First start with waking. Yoga and Tantra divide the life of man&#8217;s mind into three divisions &#8212; the life of the mind, remember. They divide mind into three divisions: waking, sleeping, dreaming. These are not the divisions of your consciousness, these [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Shakti, see all space as if  already absorbed in your own head  in the brilliance. SEE ALL SPACE AS IF ALREADY ABSORBED IN YOUR OWN HEAD IN THE BRILLIANCE. Close your eyes for this technique. When you do it, close your eyes and feel as if the whole space is absorbed in your own head. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In summer when you see the entire sky endlessly clear, enter such clarity Mind is confusion; there is no clarity. And mind is always crowded, always cloudy; never the open sky, cloudless, empty. Mind cannot be that. You cannot make your mind clear; it is not the nature of the mind to be so. Mind [&hellip;]</p>

<p>73. In summer when you see the entire sky endlessly clear enter such clarity. 74. Shakti, see all space as if already absorbed in your own head in the brilliance. 75. Waking, sleeping, dreaming, know you as light. AS I LOOK IN YOUR EYES I never see you there &#8212; as if you are absent. [&hellip;]</p>