Meditation

by Seth

“Here is a nice, short meditation that you can use each and every day, if you so choose, to raise your level of awareness and energy. Sit with a straight spine. Gently close your eyes, slowly. Begin relaxing your body, slowly. Begin breathing deeply – slowly and gently, inhaling through your nose, complete, total inhale – exhale through your mouth – complete, total exhale. As you are breathing deeply and relaxing your body more and more, see an image of yourself in your mind - an image that is bathed in energy, aliveness, excitement and awareness. And as you are doing all of this, see within the image of you – see yourself always knowing everything. Do this for about ten minutes every day, if you choose to. Better done in the morning, not late evening. If you do in the late evening, you will find that you are having a hard time sleeping. So better in the morning. Thank you. I love you.”

I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying at Savatthi in the Eastern Monastery, the palace of Migara's mother, together will many well-known elder disciples -- with Ven. Sariputta, Ven. Maha Moggallana, Ven. Maha Kassapa, Ven. Maha Kaccayana, Ven. Maha Kotthita, Ven. Maha Kappina, Ven. Maha Cunda, Ven. Revata, Ven. Ananda, and other well-known elder disciples. On that occasion the elder monks were teaching & instructing. Some elder monks were teaching & instructing ten monks, some were teaching & instructing twenty monks, some were teaching & instructing thirty monks, some were teaching & instructing forty monks. The new monks, being taught & instructed by the elder monks, were discerning grand, successive distinctions.

What are the right methods of thought elimination? How can placidity of mind be achieved without the use of the will in inhibition? The following suggestions may be found useful and helpful:

by Djwhal Khul and Alice Bailey

Pronunciation and Use in Individual Meditation

I shall now be very practical. I speak for the man on the Probationary Path, who has therefore an intellectual grasp of what has to be accomplished. He realizes approximately his place in evolution and the work to be done if he would some day pass through the portal of Initiation. In this way what I will say will teach the majority who study these letters... The man undertakes to meditate and seeks to conform to the necessary rules. Let me give a few preliminary hints: