Meditation Techniques

<p>Feel the cosmos as a translucent ever-living presence. This again is concerned with light: &#8220;FEEL THE COSMOS AS A TRANSLUCENT EVER-LIVING PRESENCE.&#8221; If you have taken any drugs such as LSD or some such thing, the whole world around you becomes a light phenomenon of colors that are translucent, alive. This is not because of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Or in the spaces between, feel this as lightning. This is a very similar method with a slight difference: &#8220;OR IN THE SPACES BETWEEN, FEEL THIS AS LIGHTNING.&#8221; Between one center and another, as rays are coming, you can feel it like lightning &#8212; just a jump of light. For some people the second will [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Consider your essence as light rays rising from center to center up the vertebrae, and so rises `livingness&#8217; in you. Many yoga methods are based on this. First understand what it is; then the application. The vertebrae, the spine, is the base of both your body and mind. Your mind, your head, is the end [&hellip;]</p>

<p>70. Consider your essence as light rays from center to center up the vertebrae, and so rises &#8220;livingness&#8221; in you. 71. Or in the spaces between, feel this as lightning. 72. Feel the cosmos as a translucent ever-living presence. Man can be considered in three ways: in terms of the normal, the abnormal and the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Since, in truth, bondage and freedom are related, these words are only for those terrified with the universe. this universe is a reflection of minds. as you see many suns in the water from one sun, so see bondage and liberation. This is a very deep technique, one of the deepest, and only very rare [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As a hen mothers her chicks, mother particular knowings, particular doings, in reality. The key term is &#8220;IN REALITY.&#8221; You are also mothering many things, but in dreams &#8212; not in reality. You are also doing many things, but in dream &#8212; not in reality. Don&#8217;t mother dreams, don&#8217;t help dreaming to grow more in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>68. As a hen mothers her chicks, mother particular knowings, particular doings, in reality. 69. Since, in truth, bondage and freedom are relative, these words are only for those terrified with the universe. this universe is a reflection of minds. as you see many suns in water from one sun, so see bondage and liberation. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Here is the sphere of change, change, change. through change consume change. The first thing to understand is that everything you know about is change; except for you, the knower, everything is change. Have you seen anything which is not change? This whole world is a phenomenon of change. Even the Himalayas are changing. They [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Be the unsame same to friend as to stranger, in honor and dishonor. BE THE UNSAME SAME&#8221; &#8212; this is the base. What is happening in you? Two things are happening. Something in you remains continuously the same, it never changes. You may not have observed it, you may not have encountered it yet, but [&hellip;]</p>

<p>66. Be the unsame same to friend as to stranger, in honor and dishonor. 67. Here is the sphere of change, change, change. through change consume change. Northrope says somewhere that the Western mind has been continuously searching for the theoretical component of existence &#8212; the causal link for how things happen, what is the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The purity of other teachings is an impurity to us. in reality, know nothing as pure or impure. This is one of the basic messages of tantra. It is very difficult to conceive of it because it is absolutely non-ethical, non-moral. I will not say immoral because tantra is not concerned with morality or immorality. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At the start of sneezing, during fright, in anxiety, above a chasm, flying in battle, in extreme curiosity, at the beginning of hunger, at the end of hunger, be uninterruptedly aware. It looks so simple: at the start of sneezing, during fright, in anxiety or before hunger or after hunger, &#8220;BE UNINTERRUPTEDLY AWARE.&#8221; Many things [&hellip;]</p>

<p>64. At the start of sneezing, during fright, in anxiety, above a chasm, flying in battle, in extreme curiosity, at the beginning of hunger, at the end of hunger, be uninterruptedly aware. 65. The purity of other teachings is an impurity to us. in reality, know nothing as pure or impure. Life is a paradox. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When vividly aware through some particular sense, keep in the awareness. You see through your eyes. Remember, you see THROUGH your eyes. Eyes cannot see; you see through them. The seer is hidden behind, the eyes are just the opening, just the windows. But we go on thinking that we see by the eyes; we [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Wherever your mind is wandering, internally or externally, at this very place, this. This mind is the door &#8212; this very mind. Wherever it is wandering, whatsoever it is thinking, contemplating, dreaming, this very mind, this very moment, is the door. This is a very revolutionary method because we never think that the ordinary mind [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As waves come with water and flames with fire, so the universal waves with us First try to understand what a wave is, and then you can feel how this consciousness of waves can help you to enter into meditation. You see waves in the ocean. They appear; they are in a sense, and still [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Objects and desires exist in me as in others. so accepting, let them be transformed. This technique can be very helpful. When you are angry, you always justify your anger, but when someone else gets angry you always criticize. Your madness is natural, but others&#8217; madness is just &#8220;perversion.&#8221; Whatsoever you do is good &#8212; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Oh beloved, put attention neither on pleasure nor on pain, but between these. Everything is polar, and mind moves from one polarity to another, never staying in between. Have you known any moment when you were neither happy nor unhappy? Have you known any moment when you were neither healthy nor sick? Have you known [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This so-called universe appears as a juggling, a picture show. to be happy look upon it so This whole world is just like a drama, so don&#8217;t be too serious about it. Seriousness will force you into trouble, you will get into trouble. Don&#8217;t be serious about it. Nothing is serious; this whole world is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In moods of extreme desire, be undisturbed. IN MOODS OF EXTREME DESIRE, BE UNDISTURBED&#8221;: When desire grips you, you are disturbed. Of course, that is natural. Desire grips you, then your mind starts wavering and many ripples go on, on the surface. The desire pulls you somewhere into the future; the past pushes you somewhere [&hellip;]</p>