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 […]
Vigyan Bhairav Tantra : Meditation Technique No. 60
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’ madness is just “perversion.” Whatsoever you do is good — […]
Introduction to Meditation Techniques No. 61, 62 & 63
As waves come with water and flames with fire, so the universal waves with us. Wherever your mind is wandering, internally or externally, at this very place, this. When vividly aware through some particular sense, keep in the awareness. Sri Aurobindo says somewhere that the whole life is yoga — and it is so. […]
Vigyan Bhairav Tantra : Meditation Technique No. 61
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 […]
Vigyan Bhairav Tantra : Meditation Technique No. 62
Wherever your mind is wandering, internally or externally, at this very place, this. This mind is the door — 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 […]
Vigyan Bhairav Tantra : Meditation Technique No. 63
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 […]
Introduction to Meditation Techniques No. 64 & 65
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. […]
Vigyan Bhairav Tantra : Meditation Technique No. 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. It looks so simple: at the start of sneezing, during fright, in anxiety or before hunger or after hunger, “BE UNINTERRUPTEDLY AWARE.” Many things […]
Vigyan Bhairav Tantra : Meditation Technique No. 65
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. […]
Introduction to Meditation Technique No. 66 & 67
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 — the causal link for how things happen, what is the […]