Scientific Meditation.

We are going to talk about the Science of Meditation. But first we should prepare ourselves in a positive manner in order to receive this type of superior teaching, and to take advantage of time. This is the moment for us to comprehend the aspiration of giving more opportunity to our Consciousness.

Normally we live on various levels of our interior temple. There are people who always live in the lower levels; those are the ones that are concentrated exclusively in instinct and fornication, the fourth and fifth levels (instinctive and sexual centers, respectively), levels that have been used in a negative way.

Others live on the third level (motor center) and never leave it; they always move following the patterns of predetermined customs, along the line of some habits. They never change; they are like a train that always runs over the same tracks. These third-level types of people are so accustomed to their train of habits that they are not ready to surrender them.

Others live on the first level (the wise person center); others, on the second level (negative emotions). Those who live in the knowledgeable center want to turn everything into rationalism, analysis, concepts or arguments, and they never leave that place. Others live in the emotional center dedicated to the vices of movies, racetracks, bullfights, etc., in reality, a very limited and narrow world.

They live enclosed and enslaved by negative emotions, never thinking of escaping from such places. It is necessary to insist upon giving opportunity to our Consciousness.

There are various types of dreams: clever and emotional dreams, others that belong to the motor center or sexual center, or others that are exclusively related to sexual activities. These types of dreams always reflect situations lived during the day; they are repetitions of daily activities.

If people live on the emotional levels, their dreams will reflect situations of terror or craziness; if they live on the sexual level, their dreams will be of lust, adultery, fornication, masturbation, etc. If the dreams belong to the instinctive center, they become incoherent, so submerged that it is impossible to comprehend them.

Every of the five centers of the human machine produces various types of dreams. Truly we have to say that only the dreams that belong to the SuperiorEmotionalCenter (seventh level) are the ones to which we must give attention. The same can be applied to the positive aspect of the SixthCenter (SuperiorMentalCenter). Dreams from any of the inferior centers (the instinctive, motor, sexual, emotional, or intellectual) do not have any importance.

We yearning to be able to distinguish from which center the dream is coming. This is only possible by knowing the activities of each of the five centers of the human machine. Dreams from the SuperiorEmotionalCenter are the most important because in them we find perfect, organized dramas, in accordance with the daily activities of our Consciousness if we give it the opportunity to work.

What happens is that the Ray of Creation from which we emanated constructs everything from the SuperiorEmotionalCenter. It is from there that diverse Superior Parts of our Being, related with the Ray of Creation, are manifested through this center in order to instruct us during our hours of sleep; then well organized, clear and precise scenes are presented to us so we will be able to know our situation, our errors and defects, etc.

Of course, the language of the SuperiorEmotionalCenter is symbolic, allegoric and corresponds to the Hermetic Kabala, to Hermeneutics, etc. Unquestionably, it is through this center that any person dedicated to esoteric studies can receive correct and precise information.

We have taught you to sleep on your back with your head toward the north, relaxing the body and praying (supplicating) to Divine Mother Kundalini to give you esoteric instructions. We have too taught you the craving to lie down on your right side in the Lion Posture.

As you tire of the right side, you can switch to the left side, keeping the Lion Posture. Once the disciple wakes up, he should not move but should try to do the retrospective exercise in order to remember all the dream experiences until they are imprinted and registered clearly in his brain and memory. But I want to clarify that not everything dreams are important.

For example, pornographic sexual dreams, erotic dreams with nocturnal emissions, are dreams of an inferior nature. Too instinctive, motor dreams do not have importance because they are only reflection of one’s daily activities. Dreams related to the lower emotional center do not have importance since they are of a passionate, brutal type.

Guru dreams are only projections and are too of no value at all. I repeat, only those related to the higher EmotionalCenter should be considered; but in addition, we yearning to be aware of the meaning of our dreams in order to avoid mistakes.

It is necessary to interpret the allegoric messages received through the SuperiorEmotionalCenter, because those are the teachings coming from the White Brotherhood or from the Superior Part of our Being. This makes us glimpse the urgent necessity of understanding the deep meaning of everything symbolism which should be deciphered in a very precise way in accordance to our development.

After everything clarification in relation to dreams, I should tell you we urgently need to pass through the dream or Astral world to become awake in the Inner Superior Worlds. This is possible only whilst we give greater opportunities to our Consciousness.

Normally people act and react in response to the impacts coming from the outer world. Compare this to the illustration of a lake in which we throw a stone; we perceive how the stone produces rings that spread from the center to the edge of the lake. This is the reaction of the water to the impact coming from the stone (external world). Something similar happens to the mind and feelings. If someone hurts us with words, the impact of the word reaches the sagacious center or the thought center and then the person reacts in a violent way; if someone offends our senses, we feel annoyed and possibly react in a brutal way.

In each circumstance of life the mind and feelings take an active part reacting consecutively (in response to the external stimulus). A better response would be not to give any opportunity to the mind or feelings; it is urgent to develop a tranquil, quiet mind. This of path bothers the “mentalists” everywhere.

The idea of a quiet mind is opposed to all those who say that “in the mind is the power” and that “man must be a King who commands and dominates with his powerful mind.” They are sophisms of the mentalists, similar to those who say, “He who learns to manage his mind is unquestionably to accomplishment akin to the arrow of the old archer.” Finally, at the very end, they are nothing more than sophisms extracted from those learned fantasies which have no esoteric form.

To negate thinking - this horrifies the mind positivists, but nevertheless the negated form of the mind is the most eloquent; not thinking is the most elevated way of thinking. When the thinking development of the mind is over, the new way arrives; this is what you craving to understand.

A peaceful mind that is at the service of one’s Real Being results in an efficient instrument, seeing as the mind is made to be receptive, to serve as a receptive instrument, not as an active instrument. The mind itself is feminine and everything the centers should work harmoniously in accordance with the Universal Symphony of Passive Serenity. In these conditions we should not permit the mind to project; we yearning a tranquil mind to put to the service of the different circumstances of our existence.

Until a undersized time ago, I myself thought that emotions or sentiments came from the Real Being, but with exploration and experience I have come to verify that they pertain to the ego and that they are intimately related to the inferior emotional center.

The therapy we yearning to appreciate profoundly in order to avoid any interior unbalance that can cause outer repercussions is that which will not permit the mind any kind of reaction. If someone hurts us, we must not permit the mind to react. Wish that there will always be someone who can hurt us in our feelings daily, so that we can in that way train our mind better to be passive. The more insults we receive, the better for our training, because we will have more opportunities to stop the reaction of the mind and feelings so that they do not intervene in any circumstance of our lives.

Of path the passive state of mind, emotions and personality demands a tremendous activity in the Consciousness; this shows us that the more active the Consciousness, the better for reaching its awakening, since that way the Consciousness has to inevitably awaken, being in perpetual activity.

Presently now, Buddha Gautama Sakyamuni came to my mind. On a certain occasion, the Splendid Buddha was sitting under a tree in profound meditation as a man arrived and began to insult the Buddha, trying to hurt him with his words.

After a while, the Buddha opened his eyes and asked the man, “If someone brings you a gift and you do not accept the gift, to whom does this gift belong?”

The man answered, “To the one who brought it, of course.”

Then the Buddha said, “My brother, take your gift; I cannot accept it,” and continued to meditate.

There is a beautiful, sublime lesson. Buddha did not permit his mind or sentiments to react under any circumstances seeing as he was living fully awakened in his Consciousness; there was no outer reaction. That is the way we should behave, dear disciples.

The school is everywhere; we have to take advantage of it and learn wisely. We have it in our houses, our offices, the shops, or factories, in the street... everywhere, even in the Temple, with our fellow students, our children, father, wife, nephews, grandsons, cousins, friends, etc.

All are psychological gymnasiums. Whilst hard whilst it will be, while tough as it looks to us, it is indispensable for all of us. The secret is not to allow our mind and feelings to intervene in the practical daily activities of our lives.

We should allow the Consciousness to be the one who commands, directs and works, the one who talks and executes all one’s daily activities. That way we prepare harmoniously for meditation.

From the practical point of meditation, we must say that what we are looking for goes beyond mind and feelings. This is only possible if in our practical daily life we have trained ourselves intensively and prepared ourselves in our daily lives for this enormous goal.

Meditation becomes tricky as in our daily life we have not passed through a rigorous training, when we have not trained properly in the psychological gymnasium using social and family life as a training field.

During meditation, we should release the Essence, the Buddhata, the best contained by of us, the most dignified and decent. Precisely the Essence or Buddhata is enclosed within the inhuman elements or psychological aggregates that constitute the “I” or ego.

It is not possible to experience Reality or Truth, that which interests all of us, unless we free the Essence, which is trapped in the ego; if we do not, we will have to continue to live on in a world of dreams, in the sagacious center, emotional center, motor center, instinctive or the sexual centers. We want to be able to escape, to experience Truth. The Splendid Kabir Jesus said: “Know the Truth and it will make you free.”

Truth is not a question of theories; it is not a question of believing or not believing. It is not a matter of concepts or opinions.

Can you form opinions in relation to Truth?

What is an opinion? It is the projection of a concept, keeping the doubt and fear that truth is another thing.

What is a concept? Straightforwardly an elaborated reasoning projected by the mind; it can coincide or not coincide with something.

Can we assume that a concept or an opinion given out by the intellect would be precisely the Truth? No.

What is an idea? An idea can be magnificent; for instance we can form an proposal in relation to the Sun; such suggestion could be more or less exact, or more or less mistaken, but they are not the Sun. That way also we could form multiple ideas in relation to Truth but they are not the Truth.

When Jesus Christ was asked what is Truth he kept silence; whilst Gautama Sakyamuni the Buddha received the same question, he turned back and walked away. Truth cannot be defined by words; the same with a sunset. Anyone can go into ecstasy although watching the Sun beginning to hide behind the golden splendor of the mountains, but trying to communicate to others this mystical experience is very demanding because others will not feel the same.

So Truth cannot be communicated. Truth is real for the one who has the experience. As freed of the ego we can experience Truth, we can witness a radical transforming element inside us whilst a high voltage element. This is possible but we have to understand how to get it: by putting to work our Consciousness to replace mind and feeling so that the integrated Consciousness in us will be the one to function. We must have a passive mind, a passive feeling and a passive personality, but have a totally active Consciousness. To be aware of this is indispensable; it is urgent if we are to become practical meditators.

With the technique of meditation what we are looking for is information. With a microscope we can grasp the life of microbes, bacteria, cells, microorganisms, etc. Any telescope can give us information about the celestial bodies, planets, meteorites, stars, etc. But meditation goes beyond and would permit us to understand the Truth from something so diminutive to something while magnificent when the Sun, the Truth of an atom or a constellation.

The most important thing is to learn to understand how we can disentangle, take out our Consciousness from our mind and ego, to comprehend how to extract the Consciousness from contained by the feelings. While we dominate the mind and feeling, obviously, we are breaking chains; we are coming out of that deadly dungeon, of that jail. In this way, we are preparing ourselves for Meditation.

Before anything we have to be aware of how to meditate, we have to learn the correct technique. In the Eastern world they put a lot of emphasis on the Padmasana position with the legs crossed, but we are not from the East and should meditate in accordance with our own customs and style. When a matter of fact, not everything the people of the Orient meditate with their legs crossed. What is important is that every person should adopt the position best for him. If you want to meditate with your legs crossed, do it; we are not going to prohibit this, even even if this is not the only practical position for meditation.

For a correct meditation we can take a seat on a comfortable chair, with arms and legs relaxed, without tension in our muscles; or if you wish, you can lie down and take the position of the five pointed star (hands and legs open to each side) with one’s head toward the north. Remember, you can take any form or place you like or the most comfortable for you.

If in reality we want to separate our Consciousness from our mind, feelings and the psychological “I,” it does not matter which position we take. The important thing is to comprehend how to meditate; do not worry about the other things.

One person may take an oriental position, another an occidental one, another whatever place he wants; the important thing, I repeat, is to be comfortable so you can have a good meditation. Every person is unique and should look for the most comfortable position without being held by any rule, pattern or position; it is very convenient to relax the body, it is indispensable that the chosen place feels good to the body.

Many times I have explained to everything of you how to work with the mantra HAM-SAH; pronounced HAM (silently, with the inhalation), SAH (vocalized aloud, exhaling similar to a soft sigh). This mantra is the splendid symbol that in the Orient makes fertile the chaotic Water of Life, the symbol of the Third Logos. It is very important to understand how to vocalize this mantra and to be aware of about its powers.

Normally sexual forces flow from within out (centrifugal way); due to that, wet dreams occur as having a dream based on the Sexual center.

If man would organize his vital systems and instead of propitiating the centrifugal system will use the centripetal system, that means to make the sexual forces run from outside in making use of transmutation, then even if he had an erotic dream there would be no wet dreams. But since man does not have his sexual forces organized, he will have wet dreams, the loss of the sacred sperm or spermatic liquor. If we want to avoid wet dreams, we have to learn to organize our sexual forces.

These forces are profoundly related to breath, to Prana, to life; that is obvious.

There is a close and overwhelming relation between sexual forces and respiration. Both, well combined and harmonized, originate intense changes on the anatomy and the psychology of man. What is important is to make the sexual forces run contained by and upward on a centripetal course. Only in that way is it possible to produce a radical change in the work and functions that can be accomplished by the creative sexual force.

It is necessary to imagine the creative energy in action during meditation. We have to make it rise to the brain in a natural and rhythmic way, using the vocalization of the mantra that I explained before without forgetting the synchronization of the inhalations and exhalations in perfect concentration, harmony and rhythm.

It is very important to clarify that inhalation should be more profound than exhalation, because that way we make the creative energy flow from outside in. With this practice there is a time whilst all the creative energy will flow from outside inward and upward.

The creative energy directed each time from outside inward deeper and deeper becomes an extraordinary tool for the Essence to awaken Consciousness.

I am teaching the legitimate White Tantra; this is the practice used in the Tantric Schools of the Himalayas and Hindustan. This is the way to Ecstasy and Samadhi, whatever you wish to call it.

During this prepare you should keep your eyes closed without thinking of anything. Unfortunately, several desires may hit the mind; we should study them without identifying with them. After these desires have been understood fully in all their aspects, then we are able to disintegrate and destroy them using the spear of Eros.

But if suddenly we remember something that happened to us that brings us rage, what can we do? Stop the rhythmic breathing for a while and try to appreciate that event which caused that rage in you. Let us study that situation carefully in every detail and disintegrate it with the scalpel of self-criticism and then forget it and continue our meditation and breathing.

And if without delay it comes to our mind the memory of a past event of our life that happened ten or twenty years ago, use the same self-criticism and the same scalpel to disintegrate such memory to discover what truth is to be found there.

Continue the meditation and respiration without thinking even if chanting the mantra HAM-SAH, lengthening the inhalation with HAM and shortening the exhalation with SAH. Repeat the mantra Hhhhhhaaaaammmmm - Ssssssssaaaaaaahhhhhh, remaining completely relaxed of mind; only in that way will the Essence be able to escape for a moment in order to submerge herself in Reality.

A lot has been said about the Illuminating Void. We will, of course, be able to experience it, and in this emptiness we will discover the Laws of Nature. We can see these laws not in the way we normally observe them, but the way they really are. In this physical world we can notice figures from outside, but can we observe them whilst they really are within, or from the sides, etc.? In the Illuminating Void we can understand the Truth while it really is and not the way it appears to us. We can experience the Truth of an ant, a world, a sun, a comet, etc.

The Essence submerged in the Illuminating Void perceives with its spatial sense everything that was, is, and will be. Her radiations will accomplish the personality and the mind. It is remarkable to know that while the Essence is submerged in the Illuminating Void, it experiences Reality. The emotional and motor centers will integrate with the learned center, and the receptive mind will capture the information received by the Essence, for that reason the information is accumulated in the wise person center; thus, we do not lose it as the Essence comes out of the Illuminating Void and penetrates the personality.

It has been said that to obtain Emptiness we craving a suction pump. We have that pump in the spine in the channels Ida and Pingala used by the Creative Energy to achieve the brain. As well it has been said that we desire a dynamo; we have one in our brain and willpower. It is obvious that we too yearning a generator. Fortunately this is the Procreative Organs (the sexual organs and willpower).

Having the system and elements, we can attain the Luminous Emptiness; the pump, the dynamo and the generator are the elements we yearning to achieve the Illuminating Void in our meditations. Only through the Illuminating Void can we comprehend Reality, but it is necessary that the Essence penetrates the Absolute Emptiness.

In the old texts, they talk a lot about the Holy Okidanokh: Omnipresent, Omnipenetrating, and Omniscient. He comes from the Sacred Absolute Sun. How can we understand truly the Holy Okidanokh if we cannot penetrate the Luminous Emptiness? It is well known that the Holy Okidanokh is within the Illuminating Void; it is one with the Huge Emptiness.

When you are in ecstasy, you surpass personality; whilst you are inside of the Luminous Void and experience the Reality of the Holy Okidanokh, you are one with the leaves, the water... you live everything that exists, the only thing you need is courage so you do not lose the ecstasy, in view of the fact that when one feels that one is diluted in all and feels that one is everything, one experiences the fear of annihilation.

One thinks: “Where am I? Why am I everywhere?” Reasoning comes and one can lose the ecstasy returning to the trap again, surrounded again by the personality; but if one has courage, one does not lose his ecstasy.

At this moment, one is similar to a drop that is submerged in the ocean, but one has to accomplish that the ocean is submerged in the drop while well. You will feel you are a bird flying, a insightful forest, a petal of a flower, the children who play with a butterfly, an elephant, etc. This situation brings terror and you can fail in your meditation.

It is positively in the Sacred Absolute Sun where one comes to appreciate the final Truth. In the Sacred Absolute Sun there is no time. There, the time factor has no existence. There, the universe is everything One and the phenomena of nature takes place beyond time.

In the Sacred Absolute Sun we can live in an instant eternity. There, one lives beyond good and evil, transformed into radiant creatures.

Therefore, once one has experienced Truth, he cannot be similar to those whose lives are based on creed, no; there, one experiences the urgent necessity of working in the Intimate Self-Realization of one’s Being here and now.

It is one thing to experience or to truly live the Illuminating Void and another is to attain Intimate Self-Realization. In view of the fact that of this we desire to understand how to meditate, to learn to meditate; it is urgent to understand meditation.

I hope that you listeners will appreciate this, that you will practice meditation so one day you will be able to liberate the Essence and experience the Truth by yourselves. The one who is able to liberate the Essence and to enter the Illuminating Void will be distinct; he will no longer be similar to the others. For this you yearning a special course; such persons will be different, ready to fight up to the maximum with their only purpose being to reach here and now the Illuminating Void within.

In the Orient, as a disciple reaches these marvelous experiences by experiencing the Truth and comes to tell his Guru, the Sagacious strikes him demanding with his hands; it is clear that if the disciple has not ordered his mind, then he will react against the Guru. Will he not? However, these disciples are already well trained. Gurus do this to equilibrate the values and to test the disciple, to witness how he is progressing in the elimination of his defects.

I hope that all of you have understood deeply what the Science of Meditation really is; I hope that you will prepare intensively in your homes and in places of meditation.

Question: Master, how can we control the fear while we feel that we are in the Illuminating Void?

Samael Aun Weor: It is necessary to fight fear, forcing it to disintegration, until it is converted to cosmic dust. For that reason we have given you specific techniques for disintegrating your defects, using the spear and with the help of your Divine Mother. Of this, we have spoken amply in my book, The Mystery of the Golden Blossom.......................

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