Meditation Techniques

<p>26. When some desire comes, consider it. then, suddenly, quit it. This is a different dimension of the same technique. WHEN SOME DESIRE COMES, CONSIDER IT. THEN, SUDDENLY, QUIT IT. You feel a desire &#8212; a desire for sex, a desire for love, a desire for food, anything. You feel a desire: consider it. When [&hellip;]</p>

<p>25. Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop. All these techniques are concerned with stopping in the middle. George Gurdjieff made these techniques very well-known in the West, but he was not aware of VIGYANA BHAIRAVA TANTRA. He learned these techniques in Tibet from Buddhist lamas. He worked on these techniques in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>25. Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop. 26. When some desire comes, consider it. then, suddenly, quit it. 27. Roam about until exhausted and then, dropping to the ground, in this dropping be whole. Life has two balances: one is of being and the other of doing. Your being is your [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When a mood against someone or for someone arises, do not place it on the person in question, but remain centered. If hate arises for someone or against someone, or love arises for someone, what do we do? We project it on the person. If you feel hate toward me, you forget yourself completely in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Feel an object before you. feel the absence of all other objects but this one. then leaving aside the object-feeling and the absence-feeling, realize. FEEL AN OBJECT BEFORE YOU &#8212; any object. For example, a rose flower. Anything will do. FEEL AN OBJECT BEFORE YOU. First, feel it. Seeing won&#8217;t do &#8212; feel it. You [&hellip;]</p>

<p>22 .Let attention be at a place where you are seeing some past happening, and even your form, having lost its present characteristics, is transformed. You are remembering your past &#8212; any happening. Your childhood, your love affairs, the death of your father or mother&#8230; anything. Look at it, but do not get involved in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>22 .Let attention be at a place where you are seeing some past happening, and even your form, having lost its present characteristics, is transformed. 23. Feel an object before you. feel the absence of all other objects but this one. then, leaving aside the object-feeling and the absence-feeling, realize. 24. When a mood against [&hellip;]</p>

<p>21. Pierce some part of your nectar-filled form with a pin, and gently enter the piercing and attain to the inner purity. This sutra says, Pierce some part of your nectar-filled form&#8230; Your body is not just a body, it is filled with you, and that you is the nectar. Pierce your body. When you [&hellip;]</p>

<p>20. In a moving vehicle, by rhythmically swaying, experience. or in a still vehicle, by letting yourself swing in slowing invisible circles. It is the same in a different way. In a moving vehicle&#8230; You are traveling in a train or in a bullock cart &#8212; when this technique was developed there was only the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>19. Without support for feet or hands, sit only on the buttocks. suddenly, the centering. This technique has been used by Taoists in China for centuries, and it is a wonderful technique &#8212; one of the easiest. Try this: Without support for feet or hands, sit only on the buttocks. suddenly, the centering. What is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>18. Look lovingly at some object. do not go to another object. here in the middle of the object &#8212; the blessing. I should repeat it: Look lovingly at some object. do not go to another . Do not move to another object. here in the middle of the object &#8212; the blessing. Look lovingly [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The human body is a mysterious mechanism. Its working is two-dimensional. In order to go to the outside, your consciousness goes through the senses to meet the world, to meet matter. But this is only one dimension of your body&#8217;s functions. Your body has another dimension also: it leads you in. If consciousness goes out, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Only this much is the sutra. Just like any scientific sutra it is short, but even these few words can transform your life totally. Unminding mind, keep in the middle &#8212; until. Keep in the middle&#8230; Buddha developed his whole technique of meditation on this sutra. His path is known as MAJJHIM NIKAYA &#8212; the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The fourth method is for those who have a very developed heart, who are loving, feeling types, emotional. Blessed one, as senses are absorbed in the heart, reach the center of the lotus.  This method can be used only by heart-oriented persons. Therefore, understand first what is a heart-oriented person. Then this method can be [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This is one of the oldest techniques &#8212; very much used, and one of the simplest also. Close all the openings of the head &#8212; eyes, ears, nose, mouth. When all the openings of the head are closed, your consciousness, which is continuously flowing out, is stopped suddenly: it cannot move out. You may not [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Man is as if he is a circle without a center. His life is superficial; his life is only on the circumference. You live on the outside, you never live within. You cannot, unless a center is found. You cannot live within, really you have no within. You are without a center, you have only [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For this sutra, for this technique of meditation, one has to close his eyes and visualize his spinal column, his backbone. It is good to look up in some physiology book the structure of the body, or to go to some medical college or hospital and look at the structure of the body. Then close [&hellip;]</p>

<p>All these sutras are concerned with how to achieve the inner center. The basic mechanism used, the basic technique used is, if you can create a center outside &#8212; anywhere: in the mind, in the heart, or even outside on a wall &#8212; and if you concentrate totally on it and you bracket out the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Man is born with a center, but he remains completely oblivious of it. Man can live without knowing his center, but man cannot be without a center. The center is the link between man and existence; it is the root. You may not know it, knowledge is not essential for the center to be, but [&hellip;]</p>

<p>You are sitting here. Just feel that you have become weightless, there is no weight. You will feel that somewhere or other there is weight, but go on feeling the weightlessness. It comes. A moment comes when you feel that you are weightless, that there is no weight. When there is no weight you are [&hellip;]</p>