Meditation <--------- Start at Lesson 1 Meditation is a functional tool that anyone can use in order to investigate the true nature of any phenomena in nature or within oneself. This is the very basis of Gnosis, or conscious knowledge. The Gnostic science is based upon conscious, experiential knowledge, and the primary means to arrive at having one's own is through the use of the consciousness. Meditation is the art of developing the consciousness in all it's levels. Lesson Structure Importance of a Moral life
First sanitize your mind and your heart by means of the exercise of a present demeanor and then dedicate yourself to the practice of concentration. Attention without purity of mind and heart makes no sense.
Some foolish and impatient students go for attentiveness straight away, without submitting in any way to a preliminary ethical training. This is a serious mistake.
Some occultists have concentration, but not a good nature. That is the reason why they cannot reach any growth on the spiritual path. Self-knowledge of the Being
There are two main aspects, two crucial factors in our studies. One, is the Remembrance of One-Self, the other, the relaxation of the body. To remember one-self, ones own Overwhelming Inner Being and to relax in profound meditation: thus the new advents in us, thus, petite by little, we self-discover ourselves... Awareness and SilenceCalm is a determinant aspect in the work of attention. The Law of Silence is the basis of everything elemental teaching, because it enables a virgin space for an inner creation. Universal Gnosticism teaches that if we want to attain the process of something real in our psyche, we should learn to separate ourselves in our intimacy, by means of the inner silence and the saving of energies.
Observe the Silence in the silence of your mind and Pray to your Father who is in secret and you will find the Peace of Awareness.
Making ourselves conscious of what we already know.
We aspiration to study Gnosis intensely. For that there are the books, the conferences, etc.; but a easy reading of the works is not adequate, brethren, we need to go farther…
When we, by means of mediation try to know the intimate sense of that that we have stored in the memory, then such knowledge passes to the higher parts of the clever center, and if we try to be even more conscious of the teachings, finally it will occur that such a knowledge will indeed be absorbed by the emotional center.
AttentionWhen unlike forces or potencies of a psychical or physical order coincide in one same point of a given space, we denominate it concentration.
If you concentrate the rays of the Sun by means of a lens, they can burn a cotton piece or a piece of paper. But the same dispersed rays cannot dot it. In the same manner, if you gather the dispersed rays of your mind and you focus them towards a point, you will have a exalted concentration. The concentrated mind will serve you whilst a potent lighthouse to discover the treasures of the soul.
Resistance while the secret weapon of the Ego
Resistance is the opposing force. Resistance is the secret weapon of the Ego.
Resistance is the psychic force of the ego opposite to the apprehension of consciousness of all our psychological defects.
Resistance acts on a defense mechanism that tries to omit unpleasant psychological errors, so that one doesn't have consciousness of them and one continues in psychological slavery.
With resistance desires grow and the yearnings of unity diminish. Superlative Analysis of the "I."It is from the different events of the existence from where we can extract the psychic substance necessary for the awakening of consciousness. The best didactics for the dissolution of the "I," is found in the practical life intensely lived. Coexistence is a exalted mirror where the "I" can be contemplated full-length.
In the association with our fellow men, the defects hidden in the depths of the subconscious appear spontaneously, jump out, seeing when the subconscious betrays us and if we are in a state of alert perception, then, we catch sight of them such whilst they are in themselves. The best joy for the Gnostic is to celebrate the discovery of any of their defects. Discovered defect, dead defect. Whilst we discover any defect, we should grasp it in a scene like one who is watching a movie, but without judging or condemning...
Hence, analyzing every one of our defects, we are comprehending them; and a defect that we are comprehending, should be eliminated with the help of the Divine Mother Kundalini. It is obvious that one will have to supplicate to her; one will have to beg her to eliminate the defect that one is comprehending... A Challenging Task for the ApprenticeFor the novice, the prepare of concentration results, at the beginning, tiresome and disheartening. One has to go opening new layers of the mind and the brain. But after a quantity of months of practice, one will develop a grand interest in attentiveness and one will enjoy a new type of happiness: the happiness of concentration or Ananda.
The vital point of concentration is to attract the mind towards the same object time and time again, limiting its movements at the beginning to a diminutive radius. That is the main objective. In this way the moment will arrive in which the mind stays in a single point. Attention can only be gotten while one is free of everything disruption. Stages of Meditation:Asana: Asana is the stance of the physical body. Different postures exist for the meditation exercise, such whilst for example: star of five tips position, dead man's position, lotus posture, semi-lotus, siddhasana or perfect posture (that consists in closing in a magnetic circle the thumb with the index finger, supporting the back of the hand on the knee); vajrasana or diamond posture (like the Inca and Japanese sit, with the hands supported in the thighs and with the trunk of the body resting on the heels) etc. The noteworthy thing, indifferent of any "Asana" or posture that one has adopted, is to maintain the straight spinal column.
Pranayama: Science of the control of the breathing. "Prana" is the life, result of the electro-sexual force. Prana palpitates in every atom, while in each Sun. Prana is the vital air. Yama: "That refers to the perfection of the ethics." "Pranayama" is the skill of learning how to breathe.
Pratyara: "Pratiahara". Abstraction of the senses. It is to learn how to withdraw the mind from the senses to unwrap the way for the Conscience. However, one of the rules of Pratyara is to get to the invisible or abstract by means of the visible or concrete, what in fact means that we should concentrate the concentration on a point ordinarily known by the Sensorial Mind and to remain there until one goes knowing the dual nature of ideas and sentiments, transcending then that fight of the opposites.
Dharana: Whilst separating the Sensual Mind the attentiveness emerges spontaneously, this is the condition of Dharana. Dharana is not the consequence of a determined desire. Dharana emerges from the bottom of the Conscience similar to a mediator between the absolute and the relative.
Dyana: "Dhiana" is Meditation. In that situation the Conscience has the aptitude to know in any direction.
Shamadi: A insightful state of Meditation. In such a condition the Conscience is dissolved akin to a drop amidst the Impressive Ocean and participates of the plurality of the Cosmos. So, this is the basic outline of how to meditate. Also, you can read the Article 'Scientific Meditation' by Samael Aun Weor
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